Museums

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Arizona 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

UA Campus. 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. On Saturday, November 1, MOCA is celebrating DÍa de los Muertos with a fundraising dinner. On Sunday, November 9, is Focus on MOCA. A major photographer will immortalize you and your loved one for a fraction of the cost of mall portrait studios. Opening November 18 and 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. Continuing through November 21 is the Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibit, featuring a traditional altar in the age-old Mexican celebration of the deceased.

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. Continuing through November 23 is the “Discovering Tucson’s All Souls Day Procession” art exhibit. 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. Continuing through November 30, is “Changing Hands: Art without Reservation” in the main gallery. 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. Running through November 9 is the UA School of Art Faculty Exhibition and “A Century of Change: French Art of the 19th Century. Through January 18 is the Intaglio Print of Andrew Rush. From November 22 through January 25 is Kolomon Sokol’s figurative works. The public reception is Friday, November 21 from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Call for other showings.

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