Phoenix is home to the Phoenix Art Museum, the largest visual arts institution in the American Southwest, alongside the Heard Museum, internationally recognized for its Indigenous art and culture collections.
Cultural Center Roosevelt Row · Phoenix
A nonprofit arts organization on Roosevelt Row dedicated to presenting and preserving Latino visual arts, culture, and heritage through exhibitions, murals, and community programs.
Museum South Phoenix · Phoenix
A museum and cultural center honoring the history and contributions of Phoenix's African American community through art, artifacts, archives, and community programming.
Museum Central Phoenix · Phoenix
The world's foremost museum dedicated to the art and culture of Native peoples of the American Southwest, with exceptional collections spanning ancient to contemporary.
Museum Central Phoenix · Phoenix
The largest art museum in the Southwest, housing a collection of over 19,000 works spanning American, Western, Asian, Latin American, and European art.
Cultural Center Midtown Phoenix · Phoenix
A community arts center offering studio classes, workshops, and gallery exhibitions across ceramics, painting, printmaking, and fiber arts for Phoenix-area artists of all levels.
Museum South Phoenix · Phoenix
An archaeological park and museum preserving one of the largest pre-Columbian platform mounds in North America, with galleries presenting the art and culture of the ancient Hohokam people.
Cultural Center Roosevelt Row Arts District · Phoenix
An innovative event and gallery space in the Roosevelt Row corridor, hosting rotating art exhibitions, cultural events, and community activations in a beautifully repurposed mid-century building.
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The Phoenix Art Museum houses more than 20,000 works spanning fashion, Western American art, Latin American painting, Asian decorative arts, and photography, with a particularly strong collection of American art and rotating blockbuster exhibitions that rival those of major coastal institutions. The Heard Museum, founded in 1929, holds one of the finest collections of Indigenous art in the world, with particular depth in Diné weaving, Hopi kachina carvings, and contemporary Indigenous painting and sculpture. The Heard's annual Indigenous arts market is among the most significant in the nation. The Musical Instrument Museum, though not an art museum in the traditional sense, holds a collection of global visual culture that any serious museum visitor should not miss. The Desert Botanical Garden and the Phoenix Zoo extend the cultural landscape into the natural world. For a city its size, Phoenix punches well above its weight in museum culture.