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The
Amerind Foundation
A Museum of Native American
Archaeology, Art, History, and Culture
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The Amerind FoundationA Museum of Native American Archaeology, Art, History, and Culture
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The Amerind Museum is open year round Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., (Arizona) Mountain Time, and closed Mondays and major holidays.
Founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton, the Amerind Foundation is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) anthropological and archaeological museum and research center dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Native American cultures and their histories. Located in spectacular Texas Canyon in the Little Dragoon Mountains of southeastern Arizona, the Amerind houses one of the finest private collections of Native American art and artifacts in the country.
Amerind Museum exhibitions tell the story of America's first peoples from Alaska to South America and from the last Ice Age to the present. Amerind's Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery features works on western themes by such artists as Harrison Begay, Carl Oscar Borg, William Leigh, Frederic Remington, and Andy Tsihnahjinnie. The museum store offers southwestern arts, crafts, and books on prehistory, history, and Native American cultures. The museum and art gallery are housed in Spanish Colonial Revival style buildings designed by noted Tucson architect Merritt Starkweather. The Amerind experience is more than art and artifacts. On Native Arts weekends, Amerind visitors will find Indian artists demonstrating their skills in the museum's main gallery. The Amerind also has a comprehensive hands-on education program for children of all ages, and special events and openings are a periodic feature of the Amerind calendar. Many people come to Amerind to experience the native plants, birds, and solitude of the high desert. A secluded picnic area offers a quiet retreat amidst the massive granite boulders of Texas Canyon.
In addition to its museum and public programs, the Amerind Foundation's archaeological and ethnographic collections, research library, and archives are important resources for scholars conducting research on southwestern anthropology, archaeology, history, and Native American studies. Amerind's resident scholar and advanced seminar programs address important research issues in anthropology, archaeology, and related disciplines. Seminar proceedings are regularly published in Amerind's New World Studies Series through the University of Arizona Press. The following link will take you to a brief history of the Foundation:
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MUSEUM HOURS
Amerind Museum
Amerind's Executive
Director, Dr. John A. Ware, is available to speak to your group! Please
contact Jill Williams at (520) 586-3666 or
