Bennett Insurance Group Presents: Arizona State Museum

Experience the enduring cultures of Arizona, the American Southwest and northern Mexico at Arizona State Museum. ASM is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest, established in 1893 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature.  The museum is the state's official permitting agency for archaeological and paleontological projects across the state. It is the state’s official archaeological repository and is the largest/busiest non-federal intake facility in the country. 

ASM administers Arizona’s Antiquities Act and assists state and federal agencies in enforcing related legislation and repatriation.  ASM is the University of Arizona’s anthropology museum and is one of the oldest research units on the campus.  Here researchers from around the world use the collections to expand the frontiers of knowledge in archaeology, ethnology, and ethnohistory.  The Arizona State Museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

Arizona State Museum’s collections and experts are among the world’s most significant resources for the study of southwestern cultures.

ASM holds a comprehensive collection of American Indian basketry, totalling 25,000+ woven pieces of rare and outstanding baskets, sandals, cradle boards, mats, cordage, and preserved fibers representing every indigenous basket-making culture in North America.  It holds the world’s largest whole-vessel collection of Southwest Indian pottery (20,000+ specimens).  The museums houses more than175,000 catalogued archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, 350,000 photographic negatives and original prints, and 70,000 volumes including many rare and hard-to-find titles. ASM curates the artifacts used by pioneering archaeologists to define the Mogollon and Hohokam cultures, as well as the Salado phenomenon.

Arizona State Museum was built on a cornerstone of research more than a century ago. ASM scholars are leaders in the field of Southwest anthropology. Research at ASM cuts across numerous fields and involves many disciplines.

ASM conducts research on late prehispanic migrations, the emergence of the Salado phenomenon, and connections between the ancient peoples of Arizona and present-day tribal communities. It conducts ongoing excavations to understand Hohokam life.  The museum continues more than 25 years of research on ancestral Hopi villages near Winslow, Arizona.  Here researchers collaborates in study and teaching with the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico.
ASM conducts research on the intriguing “trincheras” or terraced hilltop sites found in Arizona and Mexico.  They conduct research on the living legacies of Spanish and Mexican water rights in the Southwest.

Location: Arizona State Museum is located on the University of Arizona campus, just NE of the Main Gate at Park Avenue and University Boulevard in Tucson. The street address is 1013 E. University Boulevard, Tucson, AZ 85721-0026  http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu

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