Museum sights in Southwest
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University of Arizona Museum of Art
Across the road from the CCP, peruse 500 years of European and American paintings and sculpture. The permanent collection features such heavy hitters as Rodin, Matisse, Picasso and Pollock.
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Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Primarily showing work by the students and faculty of the esteemed Institute of American Indian Arts, this place also has the finest contemporary offerings of Native American artists from tribes across the US. It's an excellent place to see cutting-edge art and understand its role in modern Native American culture.
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Arizona Museum for Youth
The primary mission of the Arizona Museum for Youth is to get little ones excited about fine art through hands-on activities. There’s even a special room for toddlers where they can play with giant crayons or build their own colorful garden.
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Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park
Prepare for your children to squeal as a couple of animatronic dinosaurs roar to life inside the museum at Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park. Outside, it's like a giant playground where you can run around, under and over life-size plaster-of-Paris dinosaurs.
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Union Station
This old train houses three small museums dedicated to antique autos, natural history and firearms.
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Heard Museum
This extraordinary museum is a magical mystery tour through the history, life, arts and culture of Native American tribes in the Southwest. It emphasizes quality over quantity and is one of the best museums of its kind in America.
There are rooms of ethnographic displays, art galleries, a get-creative kids exhibit and an unrivaled Hopi kachina gallery (many of the pieces were a gift from Barry Goldwater). Most disturbing is the Boarding School Experience gallery about the controversial federal policy of removing Native American children from their families and sending them to remote boarding schools in order to 'Americanize' them. Overall, allow two to three hours to…
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American International Rattlesnake Museum
If you've ever been curious about serpents, this is the museum for you. It's possibly the most interesting museum in town, and you won't find more species of rattlesnake in one place anywhere else in the world. Come here for the lowdown on one of the world's most misunderstood snakes.
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