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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
An Old Town Scottsdale museum of contemporary art, design and architecture, with James Turrell's Knight Rise skyspace on permanent view.
Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West
A 43,000-square-foot museum in Old Town Scottsdale, opened in 2015, covering the art, culture and history of the American West.
- Rank in Arizona
- #445of 727 ranked
- Overall score
- Score 34.5 out of 100medium confidence
- Category
- Museum
Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West is a two-storey, 43,000-square-foot museum in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona, on the former site of the Loloma Transit Station. It opened in January 2015 and presents the art, culture and history of nineteen states of the American West, together with western Canada and Mexico.
Where it is
Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West is a museum near Scottsdale, 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 Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West, 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: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://scottsdalemuseumwest.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Museum
- Destination
- Scottsdale
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 34.5 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 9.9
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- scottsdalemuseumwest.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4924, -111.9285
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12