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The museum was founded in 1928 by zoologist Dr. Harold S. Colton and artist Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to preserving the history and cultures of northern Arizona and the Colorado Plateau. Ceramic vessels in the Babbitt Gallery
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Museum of Northern Arizona Exhibition Building – located on 3001 N. Fort Valley Road. The Old Headquarters Building – located east of Flagstaff in Walnut Canyon National Monument The Arizona Lumber and Timber Company Office – built in 1900 and is located on 1 Riordan Road.
South of downtown bordered by Route 66 and Santa Fe Railroad, Rio de Flag, and Northern Arizona University 35°11′40″N 111°38′58″W / 35.1945°N 111.6494°W / 35.1945; -111.6494 ( Flagstaff Southside Historic
It is a cultural center of the Museum of Northern Arizona. It was home of Dr. Harold S. Colton (1881-1970), an archeologist who taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1909 until he retired in 1926, and Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton (1889-1971).
The museum of the cultural center received a $10,000 grant from the Weatherhead Foundation for display cabinets. [13] The cabinets were based on a similar design used at the Museum of Northern Arizona. [14] The first curator was Terrance Talaswaima. [5] Anna Silas was the director of the museum in the 1990s and worked as curator for nearly ...
The Museum of Northern Arizona encouraged Kabotie and his cousin Paul Saufkie (1898–1993) to develop a jewelry style unique to Hopi people. [11] They developed an overlay technique, distinct from Zuni and Navajo silversmithing.
The Thing. Inside the exhibit are a variety of items, including odd wood carvings of tortured souls by woodcarver Ralph Gallagher, the "Wooden Fantasy" of painted driftwood purchased from an Alamogordo, New Mexico collector, framed 1880s to early 1900s lithographs, historic engraved saddles, guns and rifles of historic Western significance, a Conestoga wagon from Oklahoma!, a buggy without a ...