The Arizona Museum of Natural History is the state’s dinosaur headquarters: halls of Arizona-found fossils, a three-story ‘Dinosaur Mountain’ where a flash flood roars down on schedule, and a paleontology lab where kids watch real scientists at work.
Beyond the dinos, families explore Arizona’s lost cultures, a recreated territorial jail, gold-panning history and a walk-through of the state’s natural story from ocean floor to Sonoran desert.
In the heart of Mesa’s museum row, it’s the rare museum where the loudest sound is the flood — and the second loudest is kids shouting ‘again!’ at the dinosaurs.
