Museums

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AZ Historical Society Museum Downtown

140 N. Stone Ave., 770-1473. Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 admitted free. Students 12-18 years of age, and Seniors (60 years of age), $2.00. Adults, $3.00. “History in the Heart of Tucson” is currently featured. Free parking in the Wells Fargo Bank parking garage.

Arizona Historical Society

949 E. 2nd St., 628-5774, www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 free. Students 12-18 years of age and Seniors 60 years of age, $4.00. Adults, $5.00. Admission is free on the first Saturday of every month. A variety of exhibits exploring the southwest are featured including “Rio Viejo/Rio Nuevo: Uncovering Tucson’s Past.” The exhibit focuses on the City of Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project.

Arizona State Museum

UA Campus, 1013 E. University Blvd., 626-8381,
www.statemuseum.arizona.edu. Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Sunday, Noon to 5:00 pm. Admission: free. “Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico,” is the museum’s permanent exhibit. Continuing through January 4 is “The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the Secrets of Southwestern Pottery.” Through June 2004 is “With An Eye On Culture: A Helga Teiwes Photo Retrospective.” Teiwes stands among the last century’s most accomplished documentary photographers of the Southwest.

Center for Creative Photography

SE corner of Park Ave. and Speedway Blvd. 621-7968, www.creativephotography.org. Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, and Sunday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: free. Continuing through January 3 is “Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth.” The exhibit features 92 images created since 1986. Gowin began to extend his aerial photography in 1986 of America’s west by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage, toxic water treatment facilities and more.

MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art)

191 E. Toole Ave., 624-5019. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: free. Running through December 18 is DRAWN, a group showing of drawings that will be sold during the holiday season to benefit MOCA’s exhibition fund.

Pima County Sports Hall of Fame

110 S. Church Ave., in La Placita Village. 514-1600. Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Admission: free. View the collection of sports memorabilia of current and former Arizona greats inducted in the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame.

Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Museum

151 Granada Ave. at the Tucson Convention Center, 622-0956. Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 admitted free. Students 12-18 years of age, and seniors (60+), $2.00, Adults, $3.00. Admission is free on the first Saturday of every month. Free parking is available in the TCC Lot C, 151 S. Granada Ave. Starting December 12 and running through January 31 is the Guadalupe and Victorian Christmas exhibits. The Guadalupe exhibit showcases traditional and contemporary images of the religious folk symbol of the southwest and Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Victorian Christmas exhibit includes Victorian ornaments displayed from 1880-1910, made of glass, cotton and guilded cardboard.

Tucson Children’s Museum

200 S. 6th Ave., 792-9985, www.tucsonchildrensmuseum.org. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: $3.50 for children 2-16, $5.50 for adults, and $4.50 for seniors. See the holiday page in this issue for the museum’s December events. The museum also continuously features hands-on exhibits that include a dinosaur canyon, the ocean discovery center, a temple of art that showcases work by area schoolchildren, wee world for those under 5, the fire house and more!

Tucson Museum of Art

140 N. Main Ave., 624-2333, www.tucsonarts.com. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm, Sunday, Noon to 4:00pm. Admission: $5.00, Seniors (60+) $4.00, and students (13+) $2.00. Free on Sunday. Members and children under 12 are admitted free. See the holiday page in this issue for the museum’s December events. Running through December 14 is the Friends of Western Art Artist of the Year, Ron Riddick, in the Goodman Pavilion. Through February 1 is Alan Sonfist’s “Burning Forest.”

UA Museum of Art

Speedway Blvd. and Park Ave., 621-7567, www.artmuseum.arizona.edu. Hours: Tuesday- Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 4:00 pm. Admission: free. Continuing through January 25 is the figurative works of Kolomon Sokol. Sokol’s contributions to the development of modernism, especially in printmaking, in his native Czechoslovakia and in Mexico provided for a legendary career. Also through January 25 is “Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation.” Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists.

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