Top Things to do in Arizona
What to do and see in Arizona, United States: The Best Children's Museums
The state of Arizona is one that features a fantastic diversity of landscapes and areas of geological interest. North Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon, a colorful chasm with steep rocky walls more than a mile deep and stretching some 277 miles alongside the Colorado River. Other notable destinations in North Arizona include Flagstaff set alongside the San Francisco Peaks which has the largest ponderosa pine forest, Museum of Northern Arizona, and is close to a number of national parks and monuments. On the south side of Arizona lies the city of Phoenix, the largest in Arizona. Notable day trips in Phoenix include the Heard Museum which is one of America's largest collections of Native American art, Phoenix Museum of History, as well as the Desert Botanical garden which has a great collection of desert plants.
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1. Our Play Place
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Our Play Place is an interactive indoor children's play and party space purposefully designed to encourage a young child's sense of independence, exploration, and creativity. Your child will love playing on and exploring the climbing structures, slides, playhouses, activity boards and craft area. Adults and caregivers are welcomed and encouraged to join in on the play, or sit back and relax while
2. Arizona History Museum
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4.5 based on 98 reviews
The Arizona History Museum's focus is southern Arizona history from Spanish colonial through territorial eras. Exhibit topics include mining and transportation. The Arizona's Treasures exhibit features Geronimo's rifle, 18th-century Spanish silver artifacts, and hands-on exhibits for children.
Reviewed By 866TaylorB - Chicago, United States
The Arizona State Museum in Tucson, founded in 1893, is the oldest and largest anthropological research museum in the southwestern United States with expansive collections that are exceptional resources for the teaching, study and understanding of the region's 13,000-year-old human history. Located at 949 East 2nd Street, on the University of Arizona campus, near the center of the Tucson metropolitan area, in a historic Josias Joesler-designed building, it houses the stories and artifacts of Arizona personalities such as Geronimo and Wyatt Earp as well as Emperor and Empress Maximilian and Carlotta of Mexico. Family-oriented exhibits include an 1870s underground mining tunnel and a hands-on-recreation of 1870s Tucson. The museum has 38,000 cubic feet of archaeological research materials and curates millions of modern objects created by the Native American cultures of the region. The collections include 525,000 photographic prints, negatives and transparencies, 300,000 archaeological artifacts, 100,000 books and journals, 40,000 ethnographic objects, 35,000 basketry and fiber specimens dating back 7,000 years, 6,000 maps, 20,000 whole ceramic vessels dating back 2,000 years, over 1,000 sound recordings, 250 movie films, 1,200 microfilm reels of Spanish colonial documents, 1,500 linear feet of archival documents and 4,000 vertebrate specimens. The museum holds the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of Southwest Indian pottery and American Indian basketry. See Wyatt Earp's pistol and Geronimo's rifle and binoculars, old stagecoaches and buggies, even a chuck wagon and Santa Ana's uniform. Not to mention a history of the Apache Indians in the Southwest, descriptions of early pioneer and ranch life along the Arizona/Mexican border and exhibits on "Tucson's Black History" and "Mine Workers of Bisbee." This is a well organized museum that covers an enormous amount of history of southern Arizona that you can't find anywhere else.
3. Children's Museum Tucson
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4.5 based on 235 reviews
The Children's Museum Tucson provides a fun, play-based, hands-on learning experience for children and their families. Exhibits include Sense of Place, Techtopia, Bodyology, Investigation Station, Imagine It!, Electri-City and Pet Vet, plus a special area just for kids 5 and younger. The Museum is open with timed admission and limited hours. Masks are required for all visitors age 5 and older.
4. Children’s Museum of Phoenix
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4.5 based on 696 reviews
Reviewed By Smokeyjo19 - Phoenix, United States
It’s been a few years since we visited. (When my girls were younger we practically lived at this museum.) This past weekend I took my nephew (age 5), and daughters - 10, 13, and 14. The big “kids” had just as much fun playing as my nephew. I was so impressed with all the different and improved spaces. I forgot how loud it can be (lots of happy kids). I’ll continue to take out of town family for memorable experiences. My girls were among the oldest of the bunch, and it was nice for them to visit, but they probably won’t be back for another few years.
5. i.d.e.a. Museum
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4.0 based on 75 reviews
An interactive art museum for children that supports early learning, nurtures creative thinking and engages families to spend quality time together. Currently, visitors must make an online reservation for timed ticket entry at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. Thursday - Saturday and 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Please read our admission policy online, as we've made some changes for our reopening. Current activities include: -Developing a stop-motion film in Lights Camera Action -Acting out stories in ArtVille's Performing Arts Center -Imaginative play in ArtVille's Cafe, Library and Farm -Creating beautiful artworks throughout the museum -Exploring new fun activities in the Whiteman Family Exhibition Gallery, currently showing Art of the Story, focused on storytelling. There are three main exhibit areas (ArtVille - a socks-only space aimed at little ones, HUB Gallery and Whiteman Family Gallery) and an outdoor atrium to explore during your visit.
Reviewed By jgill334048 - Mesa, United States
This museum is great for all ages. They have an area for preschool and under to play and activities on the other side for older kids. They have different themes so it’s not always the same activity. Kids get to collect stamps and learn about things and create things that go along with what they learned.
6. Pangaea Land of the Dinosaurs
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3.5 based on 41 reviews
Reviewed By JmR-Marin - Orlando, United States
We were visiting Phoenix and found this place on Tripadvisor it looked fun and was reasonably priced. We found a Groupon and went on a Friday afternoon. the place was very busy but it's a huge place with many obstacle courses and trampoline games. If your in town I definitely recommend visiting this indoor playground, kids from 3 and up will love it.
7. Art Of Ice Cream Experience
8. Children's Museum Oro Valley
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
