1Score 61.3 out of 100
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Titan Missile Museum
A deactivated Titan II missile silo south of Tucson, and the only place in the country where a complete ICBM can be seen in place.
Museums in Arizona
Collecting institutions open to the public.
101 museums
- 2Score 58.7 out of 100
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The Thing?
A roadside attraction on Interstate 10 displaying a supposed mummified mother and child, advertised for miles by billboards. - 3Score 56.0 out of 100
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Pima Air & Space Museum
An aerospace museum in Tucson displaying nearly 400 aircraft, and home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991. - 4Score 51.3 out of 100
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Bird Cage Theatre
A former theatre in Tombstone that operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894, and was leased as a coffee shop from 1934. - 5Score 50.1 out of 100
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Poozeum
A museum in Williams devoted to coprolites, holding 8,000 specimens including the largest yet found from a carnivore. - 6Score 50.1 out of 100
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Rosson House
An 1890s Victorian house museum in Heritage Square, Downtown Phoenix, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. - 7Score 48.5 out of 100
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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. - 8Score 45.8 out of 100
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Phoenix Art Museum
The largest visual art museum in the south-western United States, holding more than 18,000 works across 285,000 square feet in Phoenix. - 9Score 45.6 out of 100
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Heard Museum
A not-for-profit museum in Phoenix devoted to American Indian art, presenting Native stories from a first-person perspective. - 10Score 42.2 out of 100
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Casa Malpaís Archeological Site and Museum
An Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site near Springerville with an astronomical calendar, great kiva and petroglyphs, an NHL since 1964. - 11Score 41.4 out of 100
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Museum of Northern Arizona
A Flagstaff museum founded in 1928, holding Indigenous material and natural history collections from the Colorado Plateau. - 12Score 41.3 out of 100
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Sharlot Hall Museum
An open-air museum in Prescott, opened in 1928 in the former Territorial Governor's Mansion by its founder, Sharlot M. Hall. - 13Score 41.1 out of 100
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Arizona Museum of Natural History
A museum in Mesa exhibiting the natural and cultural history of the South-West, and the only natural history museum in greater Phoenix. - 14Score 40.9 out of 100
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Martin Auto Museum
A privately owned non-profit automobile museum in Glendale, preserving collectible cars and running guided tours for school and club groups. - 15Score 40.1 out of 100
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DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun
A 10-acre Tucson site of adobe buildings designed and built by the artist Ettore DeGrazia, now a museum of his work. - 16Score 39.0 out of 100
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Arizona Science Center
A science museum in downtown Phoenix, founded in 1984 and housed since 1997 in a building designed by Antoine Predock. - 17Score 38.2 out of 100
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Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
Bisbee's mining history museum occupies the Phelps Dodge General Office Building, a National Historic Landmark. - 18Score 37.6 out of 100
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Mesa Arts Center
A performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, completed in 2005 at a cost of $95 million and the largest in the state. - 19Score 36.0 out of 100
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Arizona State Museum
Arizona's 1893 territorial museum of archaeological resources, now operated by the University of Arizona on its Tucson campus. - 20Score 36.0 out of 100
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Petersen House Museum
A restored 1892 Queen Anne Style brick house in Tempe, built by an early settler and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. - 21Score 35.7 out of 100
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Pioneer Living History Village
A 90-acre open-air museum between Phoenix and Anthem, recreating an 1800s frontier town across 30 original and reconstructed buildings. - 22Score 34.7 out of 100
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Hall Of Flame Fire Museum
The world's largest historical firefighting museum, in Phoenix, holding equipment from 1725 to 1968 and the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes. - 23Score 34.5 out of 100
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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. - 24Score 34.4 out of 100
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Tucson Museum of Art
A 74,000-square-foot art museum on a four-acre block in downtown Tucson, combining a modern museum with adapted 19th-century adobe houses. - 25Score 33.5 out of 100
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University of Arizona Museum of Art
A University of Arizona museum with more than 6,000 works, including a 15th-century Spanish altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo. - 26Score 33.3 out of 100
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Strawberry Schoolhouse
An 1885 log schoolhouse in Strawberry, often called Arizona's oldest, though the 1879 Arivaca Schoolhouse predates it. - 27Score 32.8 out of 100
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Amerind Foundation
A private museum and research facility in Cochise County's Texas Canyon, dedicated to Native American cultures and histories. - 28Score 32.7 out of 100
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Acadia Ranch Museum
A historic Oracle ranch complex built 1885-1930, listed on the National Register in 1984 and run as a museum by the Oracle Historical Society. - 29Score 32.7 out of 100
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i.d.e.a. Museum
A downtown Mesa fine arts museum for children, renamed i.d.e.a. in 2014 and operated by the City of Mesa. - 30Score 32.7 out of 100
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Mesa Historical Museum
Mesa's 1987 history museum occupies the 1913 Lehi School and created the touring exhibit 'Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience'. - 31Score 32.7 out of 100
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Muheim Heritage House Museum
A fully restored 1898-1900 house museum in Bisbee named for merchant Joseph Muheim, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. - 32Score 32.7 out of 100
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Sosa-Carrillo-Frémont House Museum
A 1870s Tucson adobe house tied to Territorial Governor John Charles Fremont, now an Arizona Historical Society museum. - 33Score 32.6 out of 100
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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. - 34Score 32.0 out of 100
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Southern Arizona Transportation Museum
A free Tucson railroad museum in the former Southern Pacific Depot's records vault, centred on steam locomotive 1673. - 35Score 30.0 out of 100
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Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies
ASU's meteorite research centre, renamed for Professor Peter Buseck in 2021, holds the world's largest university meteorite collection. - 36Score 30.0 out of 100
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Cave Creek Museum
Cave Creek's history museum displays area artefacts outdoors, including the town's first church and Arizona's last tubercular cabin. - 37Score 30.0 out of 100
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Mohave Museum of History & Arts
A private, not-for-profit Kingman museum, founded in 1961, dedicated to the heritage and arts of north-western Arizona. - 38Score 30.0 out of 100
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Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1997, has occupied a former fire station on Church Avenue since 2010. - 39Score 30.0 out of 100
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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. - 40Score 30.0 out of 100
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Verde Valley Archaeology Center
Camp Verde's archaeology museum, founded in 2010, covers Sinagua culture and hosts an annual archaeology fair and film festival. - 41Score 24.2 out of 100
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Angel and Vilma Delgadillo’s Route 66 Memorabilia & Visitor’s Center
A Yavapai County Route 66 museum owned by Angel Delgadillo, whose account of the highway's bypass inspired a scripted film flashback. - 42Score 24.2 out of 100
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Arizona History Museum
The Arizona History Museum in Tucson is devoted to the history of Tucson and the surrounding Pima County area. - 43Score 24.2 out of 100
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Arizona State Capitol Museum
A Phoenix museum using hands-on activities, artefacts and public programmes to explain the government of the 48th state. - 44Score 24.2 out of 100
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ASARCO Mineral Discovery Center
A Green Valley mining museum with exhibits on mining history and practice, open-pit mine tours, and a gift shop of local artisan work. - 45Score 24.2 out of 100
- 46Score 24.2 out of 100
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ASU Art Museum
The ASU Art Museum in Tempe holds a permanent collection and runs a guest artist programme alongside an attached gift shop. - 47Score 24.2 out of 100
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ASU Mars Space Flight Facility
An ASU facility in Tempe supporting the Thermal Emission Spectrometer aboard the 1996 Mars Global Surveyor, with a public visitor area. - 48Score 24.2 out of 100
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ASU Museum of Anthropology
Arizona State University's anthropology museum in Tempe, run by its School of Human Evolution and Social Change. - 49Score 24.2 out of 100
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ASU Robert S. Dietz Museum of Geology
Arizona State University's geology museum in Tempe, housing minerals, gems and fossils from Arizona and worldwide. - 50Score 24.2 out of 100
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AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park
The AZ Heritage Center at Papago Park is a Tempe museum devoted to Arizona's history across the 20th and 21st centuries. - 51Score 24.2 out of 100
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Border Air Museum
The Border Air Museum in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of cross-border aviation. - 52Score 24.2 out of 100
- 53Score 24.2 out of 100
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Castle Dome Mine Museum
The Castle Dome Mine Museum near Yuma, Arizona, is built around a collection of original and reproduced Old West buildings. - 54Score 24.2 out of 100
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Center for Creative Photography
A Tucson photography museum and archive founded by Ansel Adams, which periodically exhibits its Ansel Adams collection. - 55Score 24.2 out of 100
- 56Score 24.2 out of 100
- 57Score 24.2 out of 100
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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. - 58Score 24.2 out of 100
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Coconino Center for the Arts
A Flagstaff arts museum described as the largest gallery in northern Arizona, showing local and regional artists' work. - 59Score 24.2 out of 100
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Commemorative Air Force Museum
A Mesa museum at Falcon Field housing WWII aircraft, including the restored B-17 bomber Sentimental Journey, one of about 13 still flying. - 60Score 24.2 out of 100
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Fort Huachuca Museum
Fort Huachuca Museum, in Sierra Vista, Cochise County, Arizona, is a museum that includes a small gift shop. - 61Score 24.2 out of 100
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Fort Lowell Museum
A Tucson museum in the reconstructed officers' quarters of Fort Lowell, an Apache Wars-era army post, focused on frontier military life. - 62Score 24.2 out of 100
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Fort Tuthill Military Museum
A small Flagstaff museum in a 1929 former National Guard facility, with displays on regional military history. - 63Score 24.2 out of 100
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Gammons Gulch Movie Set and Museum
A working movie set and museum near Benson, Arizona, closed to visitors during filming, with a collection of movie memorabilia and antiques. - 64Score 24.2 out of 100
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Gila County Historical Society
A small Globe, Arizona museum on local and regional history, run by the Gila County Historical Society, with an onsite bookshop. - 65Score 24.2 out of 100
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Gilbert Historical Museum
The Gilbert Historical Museum, in Gilbert, Arizona, has a variety of exhibits on the town's founding and growth. - 66Score 24.2 out of 100
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Greenlee Historical Museum
A small Morenci museum devoted to the mining history of Clifton and Morenci in Greenlee County, Arizona. - 67Score 24.2 out of 100
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Henry F Hauser Museum
A small Sierra Vista museum of historic artefacts and photographs from the surrounding Cochise County region. - 68Score 24.2 out of 100
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Highlands Center for Natural History
A Prescott, Arizona nature centre with three miles of trails, offering lectures, workshops, and summer camps for children and families. - 69Score 24.2 out of 100
- 70Score 24.2 out of 100
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- 72Score 24.2 out of 100
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Mine Museum
The Mine Museum, in Jerome, Yavapai County, Arizona, covers the town's mining history and has an onsite gift shop. - 73Score 24.2 out of 100
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Museum of Indigenous People (formerly Smoki Museum of American Indian Art and Culture)
A Prescott museum of regional Native American history and culture, founded in 1935 out of a settler group that had staged imitation Hopi rituals. - 74Score 24.2 out of 100
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Navajo Code Talkers exhibit
A Kayenta exhibit, in a building behind a Burger King, on how Navajo code talkers secured US military communications in the Second World War. - 75Score 24.2 out of 100
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Navajo County Historical Society
Self-guided tours. Contact the Holbrook Visitor's Center (nextdoor) for a brochure. - 76Score 24.2 out of 100
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Northern Arizona University Art Museum
The Northern Arizona University Art Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, holds rotating exhibits of local and international art. - 77Score 24.2 out of 100
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Northlight Gallery
Northlight Gallery, in Tempe, Arizona, exhibits photographic work by emerging and internationally recognised artists. - 78Score 24.2 out of 100
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Old Pascua Museum and Yaqui Cultural Center
A Tucson museum of more than 4,000 Yaqui community artefacts, housed in a 1926 home listed on the National Register of Historic Places. - 79Score 24.2 out of 100
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Old Trails Museum
Old Trails Museum, in Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, is a small museum devoted to the history of the Winslow area. - 80Score 24.2 out of 100
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Philabaum Glass Gallery & Studio
Philabaum Glass Gallery & Studio, in Tucson, Arizona, has offered glassblowing demonstrations and contemporary glass art since Tom Philabaum built it in 1975. - 81Score 24.2 out of 100
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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. - 82Score 24.2 out of 100
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Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum
Pimeria Alta Historical Society and Museum, in Nogales, Arizona, occupies the 1914 former City Hall and displays artefacts on the region's history. - 83Score 24.2 out of 100
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Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum
Pinal Geology & Mineral Museum, in Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona, displays minerals and fossilised dinosaur bones. - 84Score 24.2 out of 100
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Pine-Strawberry Museum
Pine-Strawberry Museum, in Gila County, Arizona, displays prehistoric and pioneer artefacts, period antiques, and room displays. - 85Score 24.2 out of 100
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Pioneer Museum
Pioneer Museum, in Flagstaff, Arizona, collects and exhibits artefacts and photographs on the history of Flagstaff and northern Arizona. - 86Score 24.2 out of 100
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Planes of Fame Air Museum
Planes of Fame Air Museum, in Williams, Arizona, is a branch of the Chino, California air museum, and most of its aircraft on display are flyable. - 87Score 24.2 out of 100
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Quartzsite Historical Society
Quartzsite Historical Society, in La Paz County, Arizona, occupies the site of an 1866 adobe stage station on the California–Arizona line. - 88Score 24.2 out of 100
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Rainbow Forest Museum
Rainbow Forest Museum, in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, exhibits petrified wood, fossils, and the park orientation film Timeless Impressions. - 89Score 24.2 out of 100
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Rim Country Museum and Zane Grey Cabin
Rim Country Museum and Zane Grey Cabin, in Payson, Arizona, covers the history of northern Gila County and the Mogollon Rim. - 90Score 24.2 out of 100
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Rose Tree Museum
Rose Tree Museum, in Tombstone, Arizona, is said to house the world's largest rose tree alongside its historical exhibits. - 91Score 24.2 out of 100
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Route 66 Museum
Route 66 Museum, in Kingman, Arizona, traces the history of Route 66 and displays about 16 historic electric vehicles, including one owned by Willie Nelson. - 92Score 24.2 out of 100
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Salt River Project History Center
Salt River Project History Center, in Tempe, Arizona, exhibits the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam and Arizona's water-use history. - 93Score 24.2 out of 100
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San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society
San Pedro Valley Arts & Historical Society, in Benson, Arizona, displays local and regional history and sells local artisans' work in its gift shop. - 94Score 24.2 out of 100
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Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens
Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens, in Yuma, Arizona, is an 1870s adobe house with exhibits on the lower Colorado River region since the 1540s. - 95Score 24.2 out of 100
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Sedona Heritage Museum
Sedona Heritage Museum, in Sedona, Arizona, is dedicated to the history of the town's early white settlement. - 96Score 24.2 out of 100
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Superstition Mountain Museum
Superstition Mountain Museum, in Apache Junction, Arizona, spans 12.5 acres and includes the relocated Elvis Memorial Chapel and Audie Murphy Barn. - 97Score 24.2 out of 100
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Tempe History Museum
Tempe History Museum, in Tempe, Arizona, covers the city's history from the prehistoric Hohokam period to the present through hands-on exhibits. - 98Score 24.2 out of 100
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The Phippen Museum of Western Art
The Phippen Museum of Western Art, in Prescott, Arizona, is named after artist George Phippen and hosts exhibits of western art. - 99Score 24.2 out of 100
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Tubac Center for the Arts
Tubac Center for the Arts, in Tubac, Arizona, is run by a local artists' cooperative that organises art exhibits and workshops. - 100Score 24.2 out of 100
- 101Score 24.2 out of 100
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Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery of Western American and Native American Art
Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery of Western American and Native American Art, in Chandler, Arizona, is a free gallery of more than 3,000 contemporary artworks.
How this category is scored
Every attraction in this category starts from a significance baseline of 55 out of 100, before any designations it holds are added. The full table is on the methodology page.
None of these publish an official visitor count, so they are ranked on public interest and tourism significance, and none can reach the top score band.