Information About Museums In Phoenix, Arizona
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Arizona Military Museum - Local
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.

Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum - Natural History
There are over 3,000 minerals on exhibit at this museum. Highlighting the collection are colorful minerals from Arizona's copper mines.

Arizona Science Center - Science Centers
Experience the sciences and technologies that flourish in Arizona and affect your everyday life while you explore more than 300 hands-on exhibits.

Arizona State Capitol Museum - Local
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.

Deer Valley Rock Art Center - Art, Natural History
The museum is located within the Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph site, it has over 1500 petroglyphs on nearly 600 boulders.

Hall of Flame Fire Museum - Local
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.

Harquahala Smithsonian Observatory - Science Centers
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.

Heard Museum - Local
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.

Phoenix Art Museum - Art
This museum is one of the largest general visual arts institutions in the Southwest with a collection exceeding 17,000 works, spanning the centuries.

Phoenix Police Museum - Local
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.

Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum - Local
At this museum guests can visit over 90 acres of Arizona's most authentic Old West town.

Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park - Local
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.

Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum - Other
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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