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| | Deer Valley Rock Art Center | | The museum is located within the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site, it has over 1500 petroglyphs on nearly 600 boulders. | |
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| | Phoenix Art Museum | | This museum is one of the largest general visual arts institutions in the Southwest with a collection exceeding 17,000 works, spanning the centuries. | |
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| | Arizona Military Museum | | This museum has displays of uniforms, vehicles, artillery, and miscellaneous mementos from military encounters dating back to the Spanish Conquistadors. The displays are designed to demonstrate the scope of Arizona's extensive military history. | |
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| | Arizona State Capitol Museum | | Grab a taste of political history at this museum, the birthplace of Arizona's statehood. Built in 1899, the building housed the territorial government until 1912. | |
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| | Hall of Flame Fire Museum | | The Museum, has almost an acre of fire history exhibits. There are over 130 wheeled pieces and 10,000 objects, all of which relate to the history of firefighting. | |
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| | Heard Museum | | The museum is one of the best places to experience the myriad cultures and art of Native Americans of the Southwest with 10 spacious exhibit galleries and beautiful outdoor courtyards featuring traditional and contemporary Native American art. | |
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| | Phoenix Police Museum | | The Museum features a mock up of an early 1900's police station, including a mock up of a 1910 city street and an old jail cell. The Phoenix Police Memorial stands as a tribute to those officers who gave their lives while protecting the citizens of the City of Phoenix. | |
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| | Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park | | Located at a 1,500 year-old Hohokam village ruins in modern day Phoenix, this museum is dedicated to enhancing the knowledge of prehistory, history, and ethnology of Native Americans and inhabitants of the Southwest. | |
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| Other |
| | Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum | | This museum is one of the most important collections of Judaic artifacts in the southwestern United States. It features an exotic re-created Tunisian synagogue, a rotating exhibit of Judaic artifacts from around the world and a garden with plants mentioned in the Bible. | |
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| Science Centers |
| | Arizona Science Center | | Experience the sciences and technologies that flourish in Arizona and affect your everyday life while you explore more than 300 hands-on exhibits. | |
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| | Harquahala Smithsonian Observatory | | Although deserted now, from 1920-1925 a hardy group of scientists lived and worked atop the highest mountain in southwestern Arizona measuring and recording solar activity. | |
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