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The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a 98-acre (40 ha) zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, natural history museum, publisher, and art gallery founded in 1952. Located just west of Tucson, Arizona , it features two miles (3.2 km) of walking paths traversing 21 acres (8.5 ha) of desert landscape.
The museum was founded by Donald M. Kerr, a native of Portland, Oregon. [1] [2] Kerr had a passion for natural history that inspired the creation of the museum. [1]In 1974, Kerr established the Western Natural History Institute, and the High Desert Museum was an outgrowth of the institute opening in 1982.
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, formerly the Living Desert Museum, is a non-profit zoo and desert botanical garden located in Palm Desert, Riverside County, California, United States. The Living Desert is home to over 500 animals representing over 150 species and welcomes over 500,000 visitors annually.
On-site visitor parking near the main gate is free. Admission to Mission Garden is also free, but small donations such as $5/person are the norm. Open hours change with the seasons. For example, Mission Garden typically opens earlier in the summer than in the winter because Sonoran Desert temperatures can be extremely high. Visitors can explore ...
The Desert Museum started to transition to an art museum in 1953 when desert landscape paintings by Carl Eytel were donated by Cornelia White, Isabel Chase, and Earl Coffman. [2] A 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2 ) structure was built for the Art Museum in downtown Palm Springs in 1958.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum lies just south of the Tucson Mountain District along North Kinney Road in Tucson Mountain County Park. The non-profit organization, operating on 98 acres (40 ha) rented from Pima County, combines aspects of a botanical garden, zoo, and natural history museum featuring the plants and animals native to the region ...
Though Patton spent less than four months at the Desert Training Center, his establishment of the training grounds directly impacted more than one million troops. [2] The museum is at the Chiriaco Summit exit of Interstate 10, 30 miles/48 km east of Indio. It is 1000 feet west of the Chiriaco Summit Airport. Desert Training Center map US Army 1943
Desert Museum may refer to: Desert Museum (Mexico), in Saltillo, Coahuila; Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona, USA; High Desert Museum, Oregon, USA; Palm Springs Art Museum, formerly the Palm Springs Desert Museum, California, USA