Spend your weekend at the Museum of Northern Arizona!

Need something fun to do this weekend?  Spend it at the Museum of Northern Arizona!

The Museum of Northern Arizona is having a free Open House for the Flagstaff Festival of Science. Enjoy hands-on activities focused on the festival theme, Driven by Curiosity. We will learn about neon, build popsicle stick bridges, and navigate a clay road. Special guests from NAU's Engineering Department will showcase their projects and research. Visitors can also enjoy the exhibits.

MORE Events at the Museum coming up very soon:

"Celebrating the Song Dogs" (September 26, 2026, 1:00PM - 2:00PM):

Presented by the Flagstaff Festival of Science. Stop by for a humorously themed lecture about the natural and cultural history of coyotes in the Americas, their places in lore and literature, and some of the exciting things that set them apart as natures "tricksters". This is a free event and all ages are welcome.

Brady (Geology Building) Open House (October 1, 1:30PM - 4:30PM):

Behind-the-Scenes Easton Collection Center Tour (October 9, 2:30PM - 3:30PM):

Take a rare behind-the-scenes tour of our Easton Collection Center. Explore cultural artifacts, natural specimens, and breathtaking art. Learn how the collections are cared for and used in a marvel of environmentally friendly and culturally informed architecture. Each tour is limited to 14 people for a truly personal experience. Tour fee: $15 for museum members, $20 for non-members, free for tribal members.

Reserve your spot today: https://1737.blackbaudhosting.com/1737/Easton-Collection-Center-Tour-09Oct2026 

Spooky Science and Freaky Finds (October 10, 10:00AM - 3:00PM)

See curious Museum specimens and discover why we keep them. Explore our haunted laboratory and learn about insects and minerals that glow in the dark, see coprolites (fossilized poo) from ancient creatures that once roamed the Colorado Plateau, and meet bugs, living and dead! We’ll have touch tables with real animal skulls and fossils, a spooky craft and an owl pellet dissection station. 

Costumes welcome! Free with Museum admission. Kids 9 and under free!

Exhibits: 

"Wagon Road to the Mother Road" (November 16, 2025 - January 31, 2027):

Come along on a journey through America's transformative era of road travel. This engaging exhibit celebrates 100 years since Route 66's highway designation in 1926. This exhibit traces the evolution of travel in Northern Arizona. Challenging the highway's nostalgic image through the lens of tens of thousands of discarded objects.

"Call of the Colorado Plateau":

This immersive exhibition invites visitors to explore the profound impact of nature on the human spirit. Artists and adventurers drawn to the plateau's stunning landscapes figure prominently, showing a world of vast horizons, rugged canyons, and quiet solitude. 

Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau:

This ehtnology exhibition reflects tribal histories, values, and cultures of ten tribes of the Colorado Plateau: Acoma, Dilzhe'e Apache, Diné (Navajo), Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Southern Paiute, Southern Ute, Yavapai, and Zuni. Curators of the exhibition partnered with 42 members of the Colorado Plateau tribes to select the more than 350 items displayed. 

"Footprints of the Past":

Around 240 million years ago creatures large and small left their marks in the mud, leaving preserved prints under protective layers of of sediment for eons. These fossil footprints reveal a record of living animals, a glimpse of how they moved and what they did. 

More exhibits can be viewed on the Museum's website.

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Website: https://musnaz.org/ 

Link to admissions: http://tiny.cc/musnaztix