Group Tours at ASM
Arizona State Museum offers adult group tours during regular business hours Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. by appointment.
Scheduling is dependent upon availability of curators and staff.
- Paths of Life: A curator-guided tour of ASM’s award-winning permanent exhibition featuring the 10 native cultures of Arizona and northern Mexico. Topics discussed are exhibit preparation, native participation, and exhibit concepts. 30+ minutes
- Wall of Pots: An 18-ft, floor-to-ceiling, glass case vividly illustrates more than 150 select specimens from Arizona State Museum’s premier and nationally recognized collection (at 20,000 whole vessels, it’s the largest collection of its kind in the world!). The vessels trace the development of Southwest pottery traditions from earliest times to the present. 30 minutes
- Current Temporary Exhibition: A curator-guided tour of the museum’s current temporary exhibition. 30 minutes
- Conservation Laboratory: Meet ASM’s world-renowned conservators and tour their newly constructed, state-of-the-art laboratory. See the preservation work they conduct on ASM’s vast and varied collections. 30 minutes
- Collections Overview: Learn about the museum’s collection philosophy and its practices in care, storage, and use. 30 minutes
- Archaeology Laboratory: Learn about laboratory research procedure – the equally important counterpart to field excavation. You will see computer models and reconstructions and learn how artifacts are
catalogued and used as research tools. 30 minutes.
- Library: ASM's library, established in 1957, is a non-circulating research Mecca specializing in the
archaeology, ethnology, and material culture of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Nestled in magnificent architectural surroundings, this collection is regarded worldwide as the premier resource for the study of Southwest anthropology. 20 minutes
If you would like to schedule a group tour, contact Darlene Lizarraga via email, or telephone 520-626-8381.
