Phoenix Art Museum

Rank in Arizona: #204of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 45.8 out of 100medium confidence
Category: Museum

Phoenix Art Museum is a visual art museum in Phoenix, Arizona, and the largest in the south-western United States, occupying 285,000 square feet. Its collection numbers more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American and Western American art, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design, shown alongside international exhibitions. It has served as a community centre since 1959 and holds festivals, live performances, screenings of independent art films and educational programmes throughout the year. The building contains The Hub: The James K. Ballinger Interactive Gallery, an interactive space for children, and a landscaped sculpture garden; photography is exhibited under the museum's partnership with the Center for Creative Photography. It is designated a Phoenix Point of Pride.

Where it is

Phoenix Art Museum is a museum near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the museums in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Phoenix Art Museum, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Mentioned in

The county with the most attractions publishes no visitor numbers at all — Maricopa County holds 162 of Arizona's attractions, more than any other, and not one of them carries an official visitor count.

Sources

Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Official site: http://www.phxart.org/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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