Smoki Museum

Established in 1935 in a distinctive Pueblo Revival building that has become a landmark of Prescott's historic downtown, the Smoki Museum preserves and interprets the art, material culture, and ceremonial heritage of Native American peoples of the Southwest through collections spanning more than a century of acquisition and scholarship. The museum's holdings include significant assemblages of pottery, basketry, weaving, kachina dolls, jewelry, and ceremonial objects representing dozens of Southwestern tribal traditions, with particular strength in Hopi, Navajo, and Apache material culture. Interpretive programming connects these objects to the living cultures that produced them, situating the collection within an ongoing story of Indigenous artistic tradition rather than a static historical record.