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Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The museum is a covered 40,000 square foot area and features more than 400 species of birds, insects and mammals. Some of the collection of the museum is more than 100 years old and were donated by government agencies, rehabilitation centers and captive breeding programs. [2] [3] The taxidermy displays include dioramas and mounted heads. [4]
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.
This exhibit is from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The Paine is at 1410 Algoma Blvd. For more information, visit thepaine.org .
The "Rulers of the Prehistoric Skies" exhibit opened on February 4, 2012, and was on display for approximately four years due to its popularity. Another of the changing exhibits was "The Primal Desert Next Door: Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands," open from February 26, 2011, until January 2013
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The Phoenix Zoo opened in 1962 and is the largest privately owned nonprofit zoo in the United States. [6] Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the zoo was founded by Robert Maytag, [7] a member of the Maytag family, and operates on 125 acres (51 ha) of land in the Papago Park area of Phoenix. [1]
The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau.