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Phoenix Art Museum. The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest museum for visual art in the southwest United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is 285,000 square feet (26,500 m 2). It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western ...
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.
Added to NRHP. February 16, 1984. The Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, formerly known as the Deer Valley Rock Art Center, [1] is a 47-acre nature preserve featuring over 1500 Hohokam, Patayan, and Archaic petroglyphs visible on 500 basalt boulders in the Deer Valley area of Phoenix, Arizona. [2] In 1980, the US Army Corps of Engineers ...
The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) is located in Phoenix, Arizona. Opened in April 2010, [1] it is the largest museum of its type in the world. The collection of over 15,000 musical instruments and associated objects includes examples from nearly 200 countries and territories, representing every inhabited continent.
The Shemer Art Center and Museum is an art education facility and gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. The center was founded in 1984 by Martha Shemer, who purchased a mission-style house and three acres not only to preserve the property but to donate it to the City of Phoenix to be used for art education. Budget constraints nearly closed the center in ...
The installation has been on view at Phoenix Art Museum since 2006. In 2023, the exhibit was temporarily closed as it was moved to the first floor to be made more accessible. Additional technology upgrades were also done to "enhance the visitor experience." [2] [3] [4]
Downtown Phoenix with skyscrapers in 2006. Downtown Phoenix is the central business district (CBD) of the City of Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is in the heart of the Phoenix metropolitan area or Valley of the Sun. Phoenix, being the county seat of Maricopa County and the capital of Arizona, serves as the center of politics, justice and ...
3.5 acre. The Japanese Friendship Garden is a Japanese stroll garden in Phoenix, Arizona, known as Rohō-en (鷺鳳園) in Japanese. The garden encompasses 3.5 acres (14,000 m 2) and includes a tea garden and tea house. It is a joint project of the sister cities Phoenix and Himeji. In 2004 it was named by the City of Phoenix as one of the ...