About two months ago, we requested a private tour of the Arizona State Museum, housed on the UA campus in the original library. We went for our tour this morning at 10, with five others joining us. We toured the pottery collection, the pottery restoration lab, and the basket collection.
There are over 24,000 vessels in the pottery collection, representing 2000 years of pottery making in the Southwest, with the Native cultures in the Southwest represented, including Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. The pottery collection is the world's largest whole-vessel collection of Southwest Indian pottery. The pottery and basket collections are stored in state of the art climate controlled vaults. Arizona State Museum is the largest state run archaeological repository in the nation. It was the first anthropology museum in the Southwest, established in 1893 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature, 19 years before Arizona became a state. It is quite impressive!
There are over 24,000 vessels in the pottery collection, representing 2000 years of pottery making in the Southwest, with the Native cultures in the Southwest represented, including Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico. The pottery collection is the world's largest whole-vessel collection of Southwest Indian pottery. The pottery and basket collections are stored in state of the art climate controlled vaults. Arizona State Museum is the largest state run archaeological repository in the nation. It was the first anthropology museum in the Southwest, established in 1893 by the Arizona Territorial Legislature, 19 years before Arizona became a state. It is quite impressive!
