Established in 1929 by Dwight and Maie Heard, the collection chiefly comprised of their personal art and artifacts. Today, the Heard Museum includes 10 exhibition galleries. Enjoy free guided tours that include outdoor sculpture gardens, an art gallery and trading-post style shopping at the gift store. Guests can easily spend two to five hours perusing the galleries and there could be six to eight new exhibitions annually. The museum also features outstanding ongoing exhibits that highlight the museum's extensive collection of American Indian art. Open 364 days a year, the focus of the Heard Museum is both traditional and contemporary Native American art. There are more than 35,000 artifacts in its permanent collection. The Museum of Northern Arizona is located just three miles north of Flagstaff and features exhibits relating to anthropology, biology, geology and fine art. It has both permanent and changing exhibits and is home to important collections of local Indian archaeology, geology and anthropology, with many interesting historic artifacts displayed in five galleries. Housed in an appealing stone building, other attractions at the museum include workshops, exhibitions of fine art and a nature trail. The Marguerite Hettel Weiss Collection displayed on the building's third floor includes painting and sculptures by noted artists as well as turn-of-the-twentieth-century American furniture and antiques. The main floor features four to six special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art yearly. |
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