Turn your idea of a museum inside out at the Arizona Desert Museum

It’s time to turn your idea of a museum inside out by visiting the Arizona Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona. This beautiful Desert Museum provides a fusion experience for your entire family. That means, it includes a zoo, a botanical garden, an art gallery with classes, a natural history museum, and an aquarium.

The Desert Museum’s gardens showcase the Sonoran Desert’s vibrant ecosystem and represent a variety of biotic communities found within the Sonoran Desert region. Visitors to the museum are able to create their own moments when viewing the many captivating creatures along with all of the other unique attractions throughout.

Bio-diversity on display at the Arizona Desert Museum

Visit the Warden Aquarium to see Rivers to the Sea. This magnificent attraction comprises two galleries featuring fresh and salt water species including those from the Gulf of California. Then at the Reptile, Amphibian & Invertebrate Hall, explore the region’s amazing bio-diversity in a climate-controlled gallery.

Next, explore the Earth Sciences Center to uncover the region’s geology in this cool, replica limestone cave. There, examine minerals from the Museum’s extensive collection. Check out the new exhibit revealing large-scale changes on Earth through videos from space.

This Mexican Pine-Oak woodland habitat features a mountain lion, mule deer, Mexican gray wolves, and a Black bear. Then, stroll through towering soap tree yuccas and a variety of desert grasses interspersed with desert shrubs and succulents. Prairie dogs and Great Blue Heron ahead!

Even more Arizona Desert Museum exhibits to explore

Investigate prehistoric Arizona for yourself and learn about the Museum’s own dinosaur, the Sonorasaurus. After that, take the Desert Loop Trail, where you just might encounter javelinas, coyotes, and lizards in natural settings, all while learning about agave plants and native Palo Verde trees.

A multi-species exhibit providing an in-depth look at the habitat and species most often encountered amidst Tucson’s rocky slopes. Striped skunks, a jackrabbit, frogs, snakes and lizards are featured. There, you may view bobcats, a gray fox, and an ocelot in natural settings. See the river otter, beavers, bighorn sheep, many types of fish and aquatic invertebrates.

Discover how cool life is underground for a variety of desert species. Visit with a ringtail, gila monster, and other burrowing animals. Then, experience the antics of multiple hummingbird species! Bring your cameras as the birds seem to pose for photos!