Browse Museums

Anthropology, Archaeology, Botanical Garden, Culture, Nature Centers, Park, University

Deer Valley Rock Art Center is an archaeology museum and 47-acre Sonoran Desert preserve. Voted a Phoenix Point of Pride and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Center has the largest concentration of Native American petroglyphs in the Phoenix Valley. Visitors hike a handicap accessible quarter-mile trail to view over 1,500 carved symbols on rock made between 500 and 7,000 years ago. The museum provides preservation, connection and respect for cultural heritage sites and desert environments and it is managed by one of the top archaeology programs in the country ? the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

Art, Culture, History

At the heart of this museum named "2007-2008 Western Museum of the Year" is its prized collection which tells the vast story of the West through the talented eyes of America’s great western artists. In its galleries, visitors are treated to the early explorer artists such as Catlin; the monumental landscape artists such as Bierstadt and Moran; the classic cowboy artists such as Remington and Russell; Taos society artists such as Sharp, Dunton, Berninghaus and Ufer; and contemporary artists such as Mell.