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A museum of contemporary art, architecture, and design.
Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West
A Smithsonian Affiliate covering the art and history of the American West across nineteen states, in a building designed to hold travelling exhibitions alongside its own collection.
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
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
This place scores 34.5 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology 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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