FIND US IN THE COMMUNITY
During our extended-temporary closure, we're bringing exhibits out into the community.
Catch our NEW pop-up exhibit, Tricksters and Truth Tellers, at Tucson Meet Yourself, October 17-19, 2025!
Tricksters and Truthtellers: Different Ways of Seeing highlights local and national Indigenous artists whose works make viewers consider different perspectives on current issues such as identity, appropriation, the environment, the role of museums, and ways communities come together to care for each other and protect what is valued. The pieces chosen use animals to tell their stories. The traditional tricksters, Coyote and Raven, serve as your guides through the exhibit, offering their own humorous commentary. The exhibit also includes hands-on activities.
Curated by Lisa Falk and Jennifer Juan, Arizona State Museum. Illustrations by Tom Farris (Otoe-Missouria/Cherokee).
A SPECTACULAR DISCOVERY
A window exhibit at the Bisbee Restoration Museum
February 15, 2025 through February 2026.
In 1951, Dr. Emil W. Haury, Director of the Arizona State Museum, received an exciting call. Ranchers near Naco, Arizona found two spear points near huge bones eroding out of a wash. Dr. Haury, with a team of University of Arizona faculty and students, rushed to investigate.
What they excavated was a one-of-a-kind discovery: a mammoth killed by Clovis hunters over 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists speculate that the mammoth (Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi) actually escaped the attack but was mortally wounded by the spear points excavated from between its ribs and vertebrae. When it died, it fell on a sandbar next to a stream.
See large photographs of the excavation, a diorama of mammoth hunting and butchering, and replica Clovis points.
Bisbee Restoration Museum
37 Main Street
Bisbee, AZ 85603
https://www.bisbeerestorationmuseum.org/
Special thanks to ASM Director's Council Member Doug Dunn for initiating the installation and for his financial support of it.
Our Song is Our Strength was curated by members of the Pascua Yaqui community
Amerind Museum
2100 N. Amerind Rd.
Dragoon, AZ 85609
October 19, 2024 through August 2025.
See the online version of this exhibit.
Su:dagi/Shu:thag: Rekindling Our Connections, was curated by members of the Gila River and Salt River communities
Opening soon at
S'edav Va'aki Museum
Phoenix, AZ
See the online version of this exhibit.
Invisible No More! was curated by members of the Hia-Ced Oʼodham community
New exhibit location TBA.
See the online version of this exhibit.
