1.3 miles away
Musical Instrument Museum
A Phoenix museum opened in 2010 holding over 15,000 instruments from nearly 200 countries, the largest of its type in the world.
Phoenix Space Museum
Phoenix Space Museum, also known as the Earth & Space Expedition Center in Phoenix, Arizona, displays a Space Shuttle Atlantis model and a solar system model.
- Rank in Arizona
- #668of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 24.2 out of 100low confidence
- Category
- Museum
Phoenix Space Museum, also called the Earth & Space Expedition Center, is a public museum in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Its exhibits include a ten-foot model of the Space Shuttle Atlantis donated by Honeywell, a deep space gallery, and a large-scale model of the solar system.
Where it is
Phoenix Space 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 Space 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 low 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.
Sources
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.earthandspaceexpeditioncenter.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 24.2 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- No data
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- low
Visiting
- Official website
- earthandspaceexpeditioncenter.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.6489, -111.9849
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12