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The African American Museum of Southern Arizona, located in the Student Union Memorial Center, opened on Saturday, Jan. 14. The museum celebrates Black history and culture in Southern Arizona.

New museum opens to highlight contributions of African Americans in Southern Arizona

Kiara Adams
January 16, 2023
A one-of-a-kind jeweled tapestry is displayed in the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum. This piece, which originally adorned a royal palace in Asia, contains 15.9 kg of 18-karat gold and is set with 26,649 gemstones.

OPINION: The UA Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum is well worth a visit

Ben Pope
December 15, 2022
A display in the Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum’s mining exhibit showcases the mineral eddavidite. These specimens were discovered by University of Arizona mineralogists. 

A collection for the community: UA museum offers new opportunities for learning

Hannah Johnson
March 15, 2022
The aesthetics of food section called Eye Candy at the Art of Food exhibition. Labels are available in both English and Spanish.

UAMA’s Art of Food exhibition: Starting conversations about awareness and disconnect

Vanessa Lucero
November 27, 2021
Portrait of Jaynie Adams, the curator of education for the Arizona History Museum.

Hidden Histories: Women in the Southern Pacific Railroad

Capri Fain
March 10, 2020
In an effort to preserve traditions and culture of the indigenous peoples of North America and the painting legacy of Edward Curtis, these digital replicas of Curtis' original photographs were produced by Ana Grigorjev as part of the Edward Curtis Legends project. The paintings are made in order to make Curtis' work more widely accessible to the public.

Bringing Edward Curtis’ legendary photographs back to life

Sunday Holland
February 2, 2020
D.H., Minor Setback (2019), pencil on paper.

Incarcerated artists find hope in creating an art exhibit

Ella McCarville
January 19, 2020
The Tinker Lab will be held at the University of Arizona, Museum of Art, where they will be holding makerspaces. Makerspaces are environments that experiment with problem solving,critical thinking and creativity.

Tinkerlabs build creativity and experimentation

Nicole Gleason
June 26, 2018
The Arizona State Museum has been a part of the University for 125 years, and is one of the many museums around campus that offer free admission to students of the UA.

Your free ticket to UA museums

Leia Linn
May 15, 2018
The Arizona State Museum received a large donation of 209 Hopi baskets from Judith W. and Andrew D. Finger, private collectors. The baskets will be put on display in the next few months.

State Museum recieves 200 new baskets

Pascal Albright
January 26, 2018
A collection of work featured in the Tucson Museum of Art exhibition, “Into The Night.” The exhibition explores the beauty of the evening sky and offers a discounted admission to students.

Tucson Museum of Art brings itself to the 21st Century

Breagh Watson
January 17, 2018
One of the pieces at the Kinetic Museum on Broadway Boulevard on Saturday, Oct. 29.

Mat Bevel’s Museum of Kinetic Art puts a spin on modern day art

Victoria Hudson
November 4, 2016
Tucson artist Michael Haykin poses in front of his oil paintings “Oriole Nest.” This four-panel 72x72 inches oil on canvas painting is one of the art pieces that is running at Haykin’s upcoming exhibition at the University of Arizona Art Museum.

Artist Michael Haykin re-examines Earth’s often overlooked elements in UA Art Museum exhibit ‘Fifteen Indelible Lives’

Shane Holly
October 4, 2016

‘The Dude’ gets artsy in ‘Lewbowski’ exhibit

Kristi Rucker
August 31, 2016
A locomotive stands outside the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum on Thursday, Aug. 27.

Tucson’s historic railroad museum is a honkin’ hidden gem

Justice Amarillas
August 28, 2015
Bill Mason, Cat Tran Driver (Brown hair) Dennis Cady, Cat Tran Driver (black and white striped shirt) AJ Dowgiert, Cat Tran Driver (Plaid/Checkered Shirt)

‘Museum as Sanctuary’ gives voices to displaced

Alexis Wright
August 10, 2015
Bill Mason, Cat Tran Driver (Brown hair) Dennis Cady, Cat Tran Driver (black and white striped shirt) AJ Dowgiert, Cat Tran Driver (Plaid/Checkered Shirt)

Museums, art hubs dot UA, Tucson

Alexis Wright
July 29, 2015
Eric Magrane, a research assistant at the UA’s Institute of the Environment, and Miss Marple, a ringtail and the state mammal, will participate in a reading of his poetic works at Antigone Books on Friday. Magrane said he enjoys creating poetry that focuses on the environment as a way to inform people; a Q&A session will take place after Magrane’s reading.

Magrane-Marple a science-poetry team

Ivana Goldtooth
May 1, 2015
The UA’s Museum of Art’s 2015 thesis exhibition features works of master's students. The exhibition will remain open to the public until May 15.

MFA exhibit shows years of artwork

Chelsea Cook
May 1, 2015
Courtesy of Shirley ChristensenDaphne, a Testudo graeca graeca tortoise, eats a flower. Daphne was brought to the U.S. from Switzerland by Shirley Christensen after the two became inseparable.

Honoring Earth Day slow, steady

Victoria Teplitz
April 22, 2015
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