Museum of Northern Arizona

I love this museum! Over the years it has grown to be a very informative and interesting museum. Its set up well and the employees are wonderful and very helpful! Take the time to really look at the amazing historic and prehistoric pieces they have. The information on the Native Americans from this area is superb! There is a path on the outside of the museum to walk. This museum is wheelchair friendly and the restrooms are open. Plan on spending at least 1 &1/2 hours here. The Giftshop is full of amazing items! During Covid please remember you will need to pre-purchase your tickets online.

Very well kept and full of knowledge and artifacts of native Americans that called the Colorado Plateau home before Flagstaff was around. History discusses formation of the grand canyon, the movement of the continents all the way up to native americans before western influences through to today.So much history and friendly staff. Clean, safe for COVID and worth the small entrance donation.

Great museum with a focus on the native peoples of the four corners region. Lovely selection of jewelry and indian arts in the gift shop too!

Loved the atmosphere and the respect for the Native American cultures. I couldnt get enough of the Starwars exhibition.

This museum seemed anticlimactic at first, but I was QUICKLY blown away. The expansive space is filled with incredible history that adults and children alike can both enjoy. There was room after room of artifacts, art, activities, and information. I definitely recommend a stop in!

Nice small museum . I loved the art and jewelry that was displayed. The gift shop had nice things, too. The staff was nice and theres also a trail you can hike outside. Nice visit.

Nicely curated museum with a mix of pottery, paintings, and other artifacts. The dinosaur exhibits was smaller than expected, but was a nice experience overall.

Cute little museum. Doesnt take long to see everything. Which was perfect for the kiddies.They had a little kids section with board games, coloring pages, audio visual learning, and a puppet show you all related to the theme being taught.Nice stop in Flagstaff if you are looking for something to do with the kids.

Really cool museum about Northern Arizona. They had a starwars exhibit that was very cool to walk around and look at.

Excellent museum. Loved learning about the northern Indian tribes. Intriguing exhibit about The Force is With Our People, Navajos redoing the some of the Star Wars in Navajo.

Amazing experience! Would definitely visit again. Loads to see and learn about. The entire museum can seen in a couple hours. We were in Phoenix and it was a very scenic drive to the museum. The museum also has a trail. I do recommend long pants, tennis, and bug spray. Trail is not good for strollers so bring your baby carriers.

First time visit; was not disappointed! Learned alot but wish we had more time.

A lot of very interesting stuff mostly native Amerocan so if you want to learn about local Native culture this is the place to go

One of the better museums Ive ever seen about native American culture

Pleasantly surprised with this museum. Well designed informative exhibits. Completely enjoyed my time there.

Plenty of information and lots to see. Wonderful exhibits and beautiful Native American jewelry displays. Store is packed with many keepsakes i wanted to purchase and store attendant helpful and welcoming . Atmosphere is calming and quiet. Only disheartening part was upon arrival, the reception was not as friendly. We weren’t greeted and when initiating a friendly “hello” we were given a stern look and told the cost of admission. Other than that, the museum itself is very wonderful and informative.

Great place to visit. Taking a walk also around here is good also.

Every once you go. You wont be disappointed

Beautiful & informative museum about the cultures, people, dinosaurs, history of the Colorado Plateau. Highly recommended.

Excellent way to help support our Native American homeschooling learning unit!

At first, we thought it would be a small museum from the outside, but once we were inside, we could not believe how large the museum was! The first couple of exhibits (i.e. Native American artifacts) were underwhelming because they definitely looked outdated. However, past that, the museum was really nice and there were a wide variety of exhibits that spanned a lot of art, history, geology, and archaeology. Overall, we really enjoyed walking around. The gift shop is very impressive with a wide variety of items - a lot of things are very expensive though.

This museum has extremely informative and interesting permanent exhibits on local history, geology, and culture, as well as frequent special exhibits, including many featuring local artists. Any time I visit for a temporary exhibit, I take in the permanent ones again and am always fascinated in rekindling my interest in the area. The gift shops are well stocked with interesting and beautiful items to buy. There there two sets of bathrooms for convenience. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable. I look forward to visiting every time.

Small museum filled with an abundance of history. I hope that they repaired the water damage to the Star Wars exhibit and reopened it. I do feel that their roadside signage should have indicated it was temporarily closed instead of being told that after we checked in.

Quite smaller than I anticipated it being, with a large emphasis placed on the native peoples of northern AZ and the four corners region. Beautiful jewelry and pottery were on display, but otherwise there’s not a lot to keep you here for more than an hour or so.We got held hostage at the front desk for what seemed to be forever. Almost took longer to hear her tell us about the museum than to see it for ourselves. And there’s not just one gift shop, but two of them, the second being situated in between exhibits so you have to pass through it. Boo.The value proposition for this museum dwindles significantly if you’ve got more than a few people above the age of ten. But it’s a beautiful building, and the people here are supremely passionate about it.

Honestly, when I walked in I didnt think I was going to like the museum. I am usually not a big fan of historical museums but I founs that the deeper I went in, the more things became interesting to me. For example, there were so many interesting facts about the Native Americans and the Colorado Plateau that I never knew about. I appreciated the opportunity to be here and I would recommend this spot to anyone.

The place is open until 5 p.m, it takes long time to read the description of each of the items displayed since they have a huge collectionI would recommend to reach the museum by at least 3.30 p.m to make the visit meaningful.

Could have more flexibility as far as being open

Altho gift shop is pricy

A great place for the entire family. A superb collection of artifacts. Well laid out, signage is excellent and it is handicap accessible. Overall a good experience.

We had a great time with and and just knowing our family that has past were there spending the day with us.The music was out standing they played our familys favorite songs going again tomorrow

Always changing, always entertaining and educational. Wonderful staff and volunteers. Visit the museum, and be glad you did. Thirsty-Thursdays are pretty great as well.

Beautiful and able to learn new things

Colorado plateaus finest. Check out some of the festivals! Most recently went for an exhibit looking at native perspectives in Star Wars.

An absolutely beautiful and well done museum located on wooded acerage.

I’ve been to a lot of museums in my life and this is one of the best medium sized museums I’ve seen. The ethnology room done in partnership with Indigenous peoples actually had me blinking back tears. If you’re on the fence about visiting, do it. I also really enjoyed the Force is with our People exhibit that was on when I went. It almost had me in tears again, which is not something I thought I’d say about Star Wars as much as I love it! Amazing.

Cool place and not expensive. Lots of cool native culture and art. Definitely worth a visit if you are up this way. Star wars stuff was amazing as well, makes me want to see the Navajo translated version.

Beautifully done displays of arts and culture from the different tribes of the area.

Cool Star Wars exhibit connecting the native Americans art to pop culture. Very enlightening

Really friendly staff and super cool exhibits. The native peoples exhibit was really interesting and the combination of art, geology, and anthropology was well done. I thought the price was reasonable for, especially the student fare.

Excellent museum, highly recommend for Arizona history buffs

Go through the history of the Colorado Plateau and learn about the native peoples of this region in their own words. Fantastic displays of local art, pottery and jewelry as well.

Spending time in Flagstaff? You should visit this place. Highly recommended.

I took my first grade class here, and the docents were knowledgeable, patient, and kind. The displays are so interesting and well curated!

Small museum with seemingly more than half of the building devoted to gift shops selling overpriced jewelry and art. A couple of dinosaur displays, a kids room off to the side (only one as far as I could tell) that focused on ants(?) Not sure what that was about, but our daughter had fun there and no other kids were there, so she had the room to herself. I got the impression the museum isnt very kid friendly.Good displays on Native cultures. Would have been nice to see a few Natives working there to add more authenticity to the otherwise only white staff. Why no Native guide to answer questions on the Native displays?We spent about 90 minutes here, including walking around the outside grounds a bit. Had planned to go on the nature trail near the museum, but the weather didnt cooperate with us today! $12 admission per adult and our 3-year old was free. Price is decent I guess for 90 minutes. Our daughter spent 30 minutes in the aforementioned ant room otherwise this would have been less than an hour for us, so I get why some reviews said it was overpriced.One of the gift shops has pretty expensive breakable items (like small Native pottery) within hands reach of toddlers. Obviously, those should be out of reach of little ones, especially since you stuck the shop right in the middle of the museum. I didnt realize what it was until my daughter had run in there.No plans to go back here, but if youre in the area and need to kill an hour or so, its okay. Well probably drop by to try the nature trail or have a picnic on a future trip, but unless they change displays, I dont see touring inside again.

Great 1st stop before you start to explore the area. It gives you a good deal of information about what you will be seeing. Especially American Indian info.

A beautiful building with a great collection of artifacts. Also a good amount of modern art. The only thing to improve the attitude of the lady at the ticket desk, dismissive and unfriendly.

Great museum with lots of unexpected things to see and try out. I visited the gift shop where I bought some beautiful handcrafted earrings. The vendors were just lovely.

GREAT exhibits. Very informative beautifully presented

It was nice to see the different styles of Indian lives of the past with how they relate to the present.

Part natural history, part cultural history, part art history, all enchanting!

It a very nice museum and hope the product keeps kept up with and glad your doing well and God bless

This is a wonderful mix of Northern Arizona history. Theres a beautiful exhibit of the Native Peoples of the Colorado Plataeu that was created using stories from area tribes.

Excellent Arizona history museum.

Amazing. Especially the exhibit where indigenous people speak and their cultures values are explained.

Great little trails around the museum. Did not go into museum as the cost was higher than we could afford ($12 a person, I believe...). Nice park nearby. Beautiful area.

Ok the Star Wars The Force is With Our People exhibit was amazing. Love this place and even the history of the building which was designed by Mary Colter.

A neat museum experience. If you like history check it out.

Nice local museum for an 1-2 hour visit. Local Native American exhibits were excellent.

This museum is fantastic! I always recommend people visit. Ive been several times, but today I went to Hopi fest. I cant believe it took me so long to make it, I had a great time!

Friendly out of the way location. Loved the layout.Flagstaff amazing

Very beautiful place that has much to teach you and incredible stories to tell. Glad I picked this muesum on my day trip, I greatly appreciated every moment.

Attended a beautiful lecture about Native American history in the area, and an amazing exhibit involving Star Wars and Native American heritage. Definitely a recommended location to visit in Flagstaff.

It was a very impressive museum a lot to see and very interesting and informative. Definitely worth the trip, especially if you are going to the Grand Canyon.

Smallish museum but great exhibits, interactive for kids, and the shop is good. My husband and I really enjoyed it, as well as our 10 year old grandson.

Wonderful museum, loved the Star Wars exhibit.

Came here for a class project and was pleasantly surprised at how nice the exhibits were. I just love the new intro to -I believe- the 3rd exhibit on the map with the different Native American speakers welcoming visitors in their own language. Looking forward to bringing my mom when she visits this month!

Navajo art and jewelry were beautiful and moving. The Lamb Navajo Taco was the perfect snack before leaving to go have wine.

The staff were very kind and helpful. Our girls did a scavenger hunt and were rewarded and the art and history of the native cultures in the museum are amazing.

What a wonderful find up in Flagstaff, AZ!. We came upon this museum by accident. It was a wonderful way to spend the afternoon. Unfortunately, I didnt get the front desk ladys name but she was wonderful. She explained the layout of the museum and made our visit and experience exceptional. The displays are great and educational. Just a great experience.

Love this museum! My son loves the dinosaur skeletons on display there. There is an informational tour led daily but we usually like to listen for a bit then do the self paced tour ourselves. They have the Navajo festival yearly and nature trails outside. You wont regret visiting this museum!

Just a lot of information about the geography, habitat, and peoples that make this area of the United States a unique treasure.

We always stop here when passing through Flagstaff for both the informative and always changing museum exhibits, and the carefully curated selections of Native American crafts in their gift shop. Always a pleasure and have picked up baskets and jewelry here over the years.

Decent museum with a large selection of geological exhibits and native art and artifacts. I would have appreciated more interactive exhibits and I would not recommend this museum for families with young children.

Well organized, wonderful displays. Worth visiting, excellent gift shop.

Amazing place. Really nice and friendly. Lots of information.

Museum was full of interesting exhibits about the geology and the native history of the area. Plenty of hands on exhibits too, as well as pottery and some art. As a European visitor to the USA, and with a limited knowledge of native Americans, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Honestly theres not a lot to see here. 10% of the museum is archaeology, 10% of the museum is geology, 5% ants, 5% artwork, and 70% native American culture and history. Not what I was expecting, and the layout isnt very interesting.

Much history accrues to this museum and there is much to be learned about the peoples of the high desert, their culture, and their way of life. The museum shop is very good place to splurge on silver jewelry not normally seen in shops.

Almost too much info

We happened to visit this museum, because we had free time and we saw the sign. Glad we visited. This is a fantastic museum. We spent 1.5 hours here. The staff was friendly and anxious to impart their knowledge. I highly recommend. It was definitely worth $10.

Whenever spending time in Flagstaff...its a must place too visit...excellent displays of SW Native Americans history...theres always something new to see & learn...

Great place for kids, lots of things to do, see, and touch. Mine loved it!

The best tour I have had ever.

One of the best places to visit while in Flagstaff AZ ! Great Native American art and artifacts. The Museum store is amazing

Went to their Navajo festival. Only three food venders, many old white people, mostly inside art exhibits, terrible blues songs done by Navajo natives. It was too far to call this a “festival”. My husband and I (from Europe ans Asia) were so excited to learn about Navajo music, people, and it’s culture, but this event was basically for senior white Americans to purchase $300~$600 jewelries and crafts. There were 90% elders and 10% children and youth. They should have name the festival different way. We wasted $24 entree fees... I don’t recommend this place.

Wonderful exhibitions of Native American cultures.

Attended the Navajo festival and liked the way you walk in and out of buildings; something we dont have too much of in the North east where cold and rainy weather is routine.

The building and grounds are beautiful, and blend harmoniously with the surroundings. The exhibits are well shown, interesting, and highlight the history, beauty, and culture of Northern Arizona. I went for their Thirsty Thursday event held during the summer. The featured artists were a Flagstaff group called The Dark Horse Trio. If all of the entertainers are this great I will make this a weekly habit.

It could have had more detail in the picture explamations

I do love museums me and my mom went to see Museum if Northern Arizona what a great museum for the whole family to enjoy admission is $12.00 (18+) Adults, $8.00 ages (10-17)years old, $10.00 Seniors, 10% for Military and vets.. It is a big museum you can take a walking tours or you can do it yourself tours using an app.. Or you can look arround you can spend hour and hours arround the exhibits.. They also have an art exhibit as well.. They also have alot of Native American art and pottery as well, try it out great fun for the whole family..

A good collection of tribal artifacts, pottery, and jewelry. I love the historical facts.

Great place, full of local history with kind and knowledgeable people.

Incredible authentic native American jewelry selection and great staff

Excellent museum on local Anaszi sites and artifacts and information. Good bookstore and gift shop. Nice geology section too.

Great explanation of the geography and pre-history of native Americans

If you like history, this is a great museum.

Good exhibits but the flow felt a little weird for walking through chronologically - quite a bit of doubling back. It’s a very spread-out space though, and well maintained, with exhibits taking you through the broad geologic and societal histories of the area.The push of Europeans into the area isn’t covered much, instead focusing on the peoples native to the area and what their cultures both looked and look like. This is good, as we only really learn the white version of it in schools around the country/world, and it remains more approachable for more ages of visitors who may not have the stomach for the atrocities committed in the name of manifest destiny.

This museum is a must-see! Weve been there many times but every time were in town we stop again. Theres always a new exhibit or something new to see!

The lava-cave was snowed in so I ended up here. Glad I went.

Great museum with heavy emphasis on the Native American culture of the Northern Arizona. Exhibits are very well presented and educational. Allocate about two hours to see the museum. Overall well worth stopping here for a unique museum experience.