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Chiricahua Regional Museum and Research Center
A small Willcox, Arizona museum with displays focused on the local history of the surrounding region.
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame
A Willcox museum honouring singing cowboy and Disney narrator Rex Allen (1920-1999), with an adjoining local cowboy hall of fame.
- Rank in Arizona
- #492of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 30.0 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
The Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum in Willcox, Arizona, dedicated to the actor and singer Rex Elvie Allen (1920-1999), who was born and raised 40 miles north of the town and became known as the 'Arizona Cowboy' and 'Mister Cowboy'. Allen became famous in the 1950s as one of the last of the singing cowboys and as narrator of numerous Disney nature and Western productions. The museum holds his photographs, movie posters, cowboy outfits, records and musical instruments, and a bronze statue of Allen stands in the park across the street, where his favourite horse is buried. The adjoining Willcox Cowboy Hall of Fame displays portraits of area cowboys who worked in the local ranching industry.
Where it is
Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame is a museum near Willcox, in Cochise 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 Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum and Cowboy Hall of Fame, 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.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikivoyage(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.rexallenmuseum.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Willcox Playa
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Cochise
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Willcox
- County
- Cochise County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 30.0 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 0.0
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- rexallenmuseum.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 32.2528, -109.8310
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12