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The Arizona State Museum is temporarily closed to the public. Please visit the museum’s website for more information and to see how you can stay connected during this time. Established in 1893, the Arizona State Museum is the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest. Among the collections are a remarkably large whole vessel collection of Southwest Indian pottery and a significant collection of Mexican folk masks. The museum has collaborated with the Smithsonian on a number of projects, including the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA), which is a research training program offered annually by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
