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The Best Museums

  • Heard Museum (Phoenix): This is one of the nation's premier museums devoted to Native American cultures. In addition to historical exhibits, a huge kachina collection, and an excellent museum store, there are annual exhibits of contemporary Native American art as well as dance performances and demonstrations of traditional skills.

  • Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix): This large art museum has acres of wall space and houses an outstanding collection of contemporary art as well as a fascinating exhibit of miniature rooms.

  • Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale): The Phoenix area's largest museum of contemporary art is noteworthy as much for its bold architecture as for its wide variety of exhibits. Unlike most art galleries here, this museum eschews cowboy art.

  • Desert Caballeros Western Museum (Wickenburg): This little museum in the Wild West town of Wickenburg is a celebration of all things Western, including Western (or cowboy) art and the trappings of the American West.

  • Phippen Museum (Prescott): This museum is devoted exclusively to Western art and features works by members of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America.

  • Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff): The geology, ethnography, and archaeology of this region are all explored in fascinating detail at this Flagstaff museum. Throughout the year, excellent special exhibits and festivals focus on the region's tribes.

  • The University of Arizona Museum of Art (Tucson): This collection ranges from the Renaissance to the present. Georgia O'Keeffe and Pablo Picasso are among the artists whose works are on display here.

  • Amerind Foundation Museum (west of Willcox): Located in the remote southeastern corner of the state, this museum and research center houses a superb collection of Native American artifacts. Displays focus on tribes of the Southwest, but other tribes are also represented.


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    Frommer's Arizona 2008 Frommer's Arizona 2008

    Author: Karl Samson
    Pub Date: October 22, 2007
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