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Visiting Information
Location Address: 4619 E. Washington Street, Phoenix AZ 85034 The Museum is located on the southeast corner of 44th Street and Washington. We are north of Sky Harbor airport and just west of the SR 143 (Hohokam Expressway). |
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Hours October - April Monday - Saturday: 9:00am - 4:45pm May - September Tuesday - Saturday: 9:00am - 4:45pm |
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Museum Mission
Pueblo Grande Museum is an archaeological site museum and repository. We collect, preserve, research, interpret, and exhibit cultural materials from the site of Pueblo Grande and the Greater Southwest. The Museum, part of the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department since 1929, is dedicated to enhancing the knowledge of prehistory, history, and ethnology of inhabitants of the Southwest, and promoting a greater understanding of the diversity of cultures past and present, for our guests and the citizens of Phoenix. |
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Pueblo Grande Museum Pueblo Grande Museum is located at a 1,500 year-old Hohokam village ruins in modern day Phoenix. For over 70 years the museum has been dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Hohokam culture. On the 102 acre park grounds, visitors explore the ruin of an 800 year-old platform mound possibly used by the Hohokam for ceremonies or as an administrative center. An excavated ballcourt, and to full-scale reproductions of prehistoric Hohokam homes can be viewed along the ruin trail. The site also includes some of the last remaining intact Hohokam irrigation canals. Museum History |
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The Hohokam Culture The prehistoric Hohokam people lived in central and southern Arizona from about AD 1 to 1450. They were expert farmers, growing crops such as corn, beans, squash, and cotton. They used adobe to construct their villages, often centered around platform mounds and ballcourts, and engineered hundreds of miles of canals to irrigate their fields. Distinguished by their red-on-buff pottery, the Hohokam wove beautiful textiles and made jewelry from shell obtained from the Gulf of California. Drought, floods and perhaps internal strife, forced the Hohokam to abandon the Salt River Valley in the fifteenth century. When Spanish explorers arrived in the sixteenth century, they found the Hohokam villages in ruins. However, they also found thriving villages of Akimel O'odham (Pima) natives, who claim to be descendents of the Hohokam. Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park is dedicated to increasing knowledge and understanding of the peoples of the Southwest, past and present. Read more about the Hohokam online - Desert Farmers at the River's Edge: The Hohokam and Pueblo Grande. Order this and other books using the museum's Archaeology and History Publication Order Form. |
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Museum Exhibits The Museum's long-term exhibit hall, The Hohokam: The Land and the People, describes the fascinating life of the Hohokam people. This exhibit focuses on the Hohokam people of Pueblo Grande and the Salt River Valley. Several themes are contained in this fascinating exhibit including agriculture, canal building, craft production, trade and astronomy. Doorways to the Past: Hohokam Houses, a exhibit along the Ruin Trail, features full-size replicas of Hohokam houses. Visitors are able to explore the everyday life of the Hohokam people while walking through an adobe compound and pithouse cluster. Replicas of Hohokam artifacts and other features give visitors the experience of entering the ancient world of the Hohokam. In DIG IT: Explore Archaeology, visitors will explore how archaeologists study clues from ancient and historic sites. Learn how these clues are used in identifying artifacts, such as ancient pottery, and create your own designs using interactive magnetic drawing slates. Build your own miniature Hohokam village and explore a life-size replica of an excavated trench wall where hands-on elements demonstrate the science of archaeology. Our Changing Exhibit Hall showcases up to three exhibitions per year on topics such as archaeology, southwestern cultures, and contemporary American Indian arts. |
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Museum Store Don't forget to stop in at the Museum Store operated by the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary. It's a great place to find that one-of-a-kind gift or personal item. Located off of the museum lobby you will find a wide variety of books, American Indian jewelry and pottery, games and books for kids, shirts, compact discs, cassette tapes and lots of other interesting items. Museum members receive a 10% discount on most purchases. There are many new items this year and all items sold in the store support the museum Auxiliary. |
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Public Archaeology Programs The Pueblo Grande Museum offers a wide variety of interesting and educational activities throughout the year. Public Archaeology Programs offered by the museum fit within its mission to provide educational experiences that enhance peoples understanding of the Hohokam people, other peoples of the Greater Southwest, past and present, and the science of archaeology. See the Calendar of Events for specific details on dates and times of programs. |
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Guided Tours
(Visitas con guías en español) The Museum provides tours of the museum exhibits, Hohokam ruins, and outdoor exhibits by appointment only. Call (602) 495-0901 for more information. Tours of the Hohokam irrigation canals in the Park of Four Waters are available. Please check the Calendar of Events for tour days and times. Group Tours
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Contact Us If you have questions or need further information, contact us at: (Información en español) Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park 4619 E. Washington Street, Phoenix AZ 85034-1909 (602) 495-0901 or 0902 Voice (602) 495-0900 Recorded Information (602) 495-5645 Fax 1-877-706-4408 Toll free (outside Phoenix) Email address: [email protected] 
Send e-mail to the Pueblo Grande MuseumCity of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department (602) 262-6862 Main Office (602) 262-6713 TTY (602) 534-3787 Fax Email address: [email protected] |
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Links to Other Sites The following links will take you to sites over which the city of Phoenix has no control. The city assumes no responsibility for the content of the material contained at those sites or for the accuracy of any information that is found there. The contents of any site or link not maintained by the city does not necessarily reflect the opinions, standards or policies of the city of Phoenix, its officials, agents or employees.
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