On Saturday Adam and I went to the Heard Museum for our April date (from our Year of Dates). Originally we were going to spend a night in Sedona for our April date, but with our Nashville trip and other plans, we weren’t able to get away. We decided to switch our May and April dates, so we ended up doing our May museum and lunch date this month instead. Founded in 1929, the Heard Museum is dedicated to American Indian art and storytelling. From their site, their mission is “to be the world’s preeminent museum for the presentation, interpretation and advancement of American Indian art, emphasizing its intersection with broader artistic and cultural themes”. We got to the museum around noon and luckily it wasn’t very crowded. We had plenty of time and space to enjoy all of the collections and exhibits. There are so many beautiful pieces of pottery, artwork, textiles, and sculptures throughout the museum and courtyard. The museum also hosts temporary exhibits and collections. Currently they are showcasing The Jewelry of Richard I. Chavez and the paintings and metalworks of Awa Tsireh. Last fall they had pieces from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – Phoenix was the only North American stop on that tour! The picture below isn’t the best, but Adam loved that watercolor from Awa Tsireh. Look at the skunk! We also made a stop at the museum café for a snack while we were there. We ended up splitting the meat and cheese board, but there were so many delicious-sounding dishes on the menu. The Four Peaks Quesadilla sounded SO good! They also have a beautiful gift shop too, like quality handmade pieces, not cheap souvenir stuff. For our trip the Heard Museum we used our library’s culture pass program to cover our admission. The Mesa Public Library is part of a culture pass program that allows free admission for 2 people to participating museums twice a month. It looks like most of the Phoenix-area libraries use the same program. I also found similar programs in other counties/states, so there may be something similar available near you. It ended up working perfectly and it’s my new favorite cheap date idea! Do you ever visit your local museums? The Phoenix-area has SO many, but I think this is only the 2nd one we’ve been too… Linking up with: Travel Photo Thursday - Budget Travelers Sandbox Weekend Travel Inspiration - Albom Adventures Travel Tuesday - Life's Sweet Words City Tripping - Wander Mum
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The Heard Museum located in Phoenix Arizona has an extensive collection of American Indian cultural art and sculpture and is great place to visit if you want to know more about the various regional native tribes of the Americas. Founded by Dwight B. Heard and Maie Bartlett Heard in 1929 in order to house and share their growing personal collection of artifacts and fine art. What started as 11 small rooms built around a courtyard on a portion of their property next to their home; after three building expansions, the Heard Museum has now grown to 130,000 square feet, 12 exhibition galleries, a library and archive, education centre, shop and bookstore, cafe, meeting space and auditorium. There are approximately 40,000 pieces in the collection (not all of it on display).
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Biosphere 2 is an Earth systems science research facility owned by the University of Arizona. Its current mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a 3.14-acre (12,700 m2)structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (US) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustine, CEO. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest of nature. It also explored the possible use of closed biospheres inspace colonization, and allowed the study and manipulation of a biosphere without harming Earth's. The name comes from Earth's biosphere, Biosphere 1. Earth's life system is the only biosphere currently known. Not a lot of people know about the ocean and rainforest that sit in the middle of the Arizona desert-- they're contained within the 3-acre funky glass building that houses Biosphere 2. This tiny microcosm of Earth's biomes was created with the noble goal of researching and developing self-sustaining space-colonization technology, and while scientists have gathered some valuable data from the biodome, Biosphere 2 is probably best known for the two missions carried out inside between 1991 and 1994, the second of which was called off early after a dispute got more than a little out of hand. And, the best part? Today, you can tour Biosphere 2.The first "mission" in Biosphere 2 (so called because technically, Earth was "Biosphere 1") was highly publicized-- 8 crew members locked themselves in the biosphere for two years, determined to survive on their own. Despite a few minor inconveniences like ant and cockroach populations inside thriving, the loss of pollinating insect populations, rumors of hidden, prepackaged foods and oxygen being replenished from the outside, wildly fluctuating CO2 levels and, at times, disputes (and hookups-- two Biospherians got married immeditately after the mission ended) between the crew, the project was a relative success-- at least, enough so to justfy a second mission. That ended up not being a super great idea: within a month of the 10-month-long mission's start, a dispute between those in charge led to on-site management being ousted by federal marshals bearing a restraining order. A few days later, the building was allegedly vandalized by crew members from the first mission. Despite all this, plus multiple crew members leaving mid-mission, the crew trooped on until September, when it was finally shut down.Thankfully, the iconic building was rescued by the University of Arizona, who uses the facility for projects "including research into the terrestrial water cycle and how it relates to ecology, atmospheric science, soil geochemistry, and climate change." as they try to restore the sullied reputation of the Biosphere 2 project. They also offer in-depth tours of Biosphere 2-- it's a lot like an enormous, walk-through ecological science experiment. You can see oceans with coral reefs, sandy deserts, lush rainforests and more, all in a tour that lasts under 2 hours. One of the highlights of the tour of Biosphere 2 isn't an ecosystem, surprisingly enough, but an engineering feat: the lung domes created to account for the fact that the heat from the sun caused the air inside the biosphere to expand during the hot daytime hours, and contract when things cooled off at night.
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Where in the world is La Carmina? I'm currently in Miami; last month, Arizona. Here's the first of my many desert photo diaries. Don't tell my earless cat that I was petting a dog in Mesa (east of Phoenix). It's an illusion. This Salvador Dali-esque melting building... ... is in fact a 2D mural, on
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This. This is the place to take kids in Phoenix. Last week we got the opportunity to take our little people to the Children's Museum of Phoenix. Can you think of a place more fun than this? Images by Kathryn Hopefully, if you have kids you have been to this award-winning museum. First of all, an air-conditioned, three-story, steampunk treehouse climber complete with a flying bathtub? Yeah. It's got that. Kids and adults are mesmorized by this place. And how could you not be? There is inspiration everywhere! From paper chandeliers to soft, plush cacti and animals constructed from wood, paper, and sweaters. Look up, look down, look all around because you will leave this museum feeling more creative and wanting to incorporate more play into your life. And you'll realize that the best play isn't found in the normal toy isle. It is created from the everyday objects all around us. If you live in the Valley, a yearly membership is a fabulous deal. There are some great drop-in classes that are free for members to really make spending the money worthwhile. August is "Movin' and Groovin' month with music classes, ribbon dancing, math for toddlers, and parachute playtime. Thanks to Janssen from Everyday Reading for joining us. We had such a great time! And we were all surprised when the kids all cooperated for a picture. Painless. Amazing. Kathryn, Marily, and Janssen with our kiddos. Did I mention air-conditioning? Thank you, Children's Museum of Phoenix. Look at all those happy children. Disclosure
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"Brush up on your orienteering and wilderness survivak skills and then head to the Superstition Mountain Museum to check out their exhibit on the legendary and elusive Lost Dutchman's Mine and get a really extensive history on the various legends of the treasure. They also have the Peralta Stones, which they claim are engraved with cryptic clues that point toward the location of the mine. And, on the bright side, if you come up empty handed on your search for gold, the museum also has an Elvis Chapel filled with memorabilia from The King's movie Charro-- you can even get married there! True love is even more precious and rare than gold, and all." -Roadtrippers The Superstition Mountain Museum collects, preserves and displays the artifacts, history and folklore of the Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction and the surrounding region. Perhaps nowhere in the entire United States is there an area full of legend, history and intrigue as the rugged 160,000 acre Superstition Mountain range in Central Arizona. Archeological evidence indicates that people were here some 9000 years ago. Later inhabitants included the Salado, Hohokam and Apache Indians, followed by Spanish explorers and Mexican Gold Miners. Early American trappers and adventurers migrated to the area and were soon followed by cattlemen and farmers. Eventually, the U.S. Cavalry was sent in to establish forts to protect this rapidly growing population. As modern times approached, men and women began searching for what they believed was the richest gold mine in the world. This mine was made famous by Jacob Waltz, known as "the Dutchman", who took the secret of "his mine" to the grave in 1891. Even today, treasure hunters scour the mountains searching for the Lost Dutchman Mine, but now they share the region with campers, hikers, horseback riders and conservationists in what has officially become the Superstition Wilderness Area. The 12 acre Museum site offers untold photo opportunities with it's reproductions of 19th Century businesses including a Wells Fargo office, stage coach stop, barber shop, assay office and other displays of authentic relics of the 1800's. Well marked nature walks crisscross the areas surrounding the museum buildings, all located at the base of the West Wall of the beautiful Superstition Mountain.....a one of a kind location.
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Safari Club International Foundation wishes to inform you that the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson, AZ, closed its doors on December 31, 2023. All scheduled events after this date are canceled. Efforts are being made to return the taxidermy on loan from other organizations. The remaining museum’s taxidermy, animals, and exhibits will be relocated to […]
"Duck and Cover!" Bomb shelters, the Berlin Wall, weekly tests of the Emergency Broadcast System, the piercing sounds of air raid sirens, and the Space Race. These are the hallmarks of the "Cold War" era. The Titan Missile Museum showcases the dramatic vestiges of the Cold War between the U.S. and former Soviet Union and provides a vivid education about the history of nuclear conflict-a history of keeping the peace. At the Titan Missile Museum, near Tucson, Arizona, visitors journey through time to stand on the front line of the Cold War. This preserved Titan II missile site, officially known as complex 571-7, is all that remains of the 54 Titan II missile sites that were on alert across the United States from 1963 to 1987. Able to launch from its underground silo in just 58 seconds, the Titan II was capable of delivering a 9-megaton nuclear warhead to targets more than 6300 miles (10,000 km) away in about 30 minutes. Nowhere else in the world can visitors get this close to an intercontinental ballistic missile in its operational environment. This one-of-a kind museum gives visitors a rare look at the technology used by the United States to deter nuclear war. What was once one of America's most top secret places is now a National Historic Landmark, fulfilling its new mission of bringing Cold War history to life for millions of visitors from around the world.
Safari Club International Foundation wishes to inform you that the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson, AZ, closed its doors on December 31, 2023. All scheduled events after this date are canceled. Efforts are being made to return the taxidermy on loan from other organizations. The remaining museum’s taxidermy, animals, and exhibits will be relocated to […]
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On Saturday Adam and I went to the Heard Museum for our April date (from our Year of Dates). Originally we were going to spend a night in Sedona for our April date, but with our Nashville trip and other plans, we weren’t able to get away. We decided to switch our May and April dates, so we ended up doing our May museum and lunch date this month instead. Founded in 1929, the Heard Museum is dedicated to American Indian art and storytelling. From their site, their mission is “to be the world’s preeminent museum for the presentation, interpretation and advancement of American Indian art, emphasizing its intersection with broader artistic and cultural themes”. We got to the museum around noon and luckily it wasn’t very crowded. We had plenty of time and space to enjoy all of the collections and exhibits. There are so many beautiful pieces of pottery, artwork, textiles, and sculptures throughout the museum and courtyard. The museum also hosts temporary exhibits and collections. Currently they are showcasing The Jewelry of Richard I. Chavez and the paintings and metalworks of Awa Tsireh. Last fall they had pieces from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera – Phoenix was the only North American stop on that tour! The picture below isn’t the best, but Adam loved that watercolor from Awa Tsireh. Look at the skunk! We also made a stop at the museum café for a snack while we were there. We ended up splitting the meat and cheese board, but there were so many delicious-sounding dishes on the menu. The Four Peaks Quesadilla sounded SO good! They also have a beautiful gift shop too, like quality handmade pieces, not cheap souvenir stuff. For our trip the Heard Museum we used our library’s culture pass program to cover our admission. The Mesa Public Library is part of a culture pass program that allows free admission for 2 people to participating museums twice a month. It looks like most of the Phoenix-area libraries use the same program. I also found similar programs in other counties/states, so there may be something similar available near you. It ended up working perfectly and it’s my new favorite cheap date idea! Do you ever visit your local museums? The Phoenix-area has SO many, but I think this is only the 2nd one we’ve been too… Linking up with: Travel Photo Thursday - Budget Travelers Sandbox Weekend Travel Inspiration - Albom Adventures Travel Tuesday - Life's Sweet Words City Tripping - Wander Mum
