Tempe's Old West: It's Not What You Think

Free Admission   

Featured Exhibit
On display November 8, 2024 – March 29, 2025
Open Tue. - Sat., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Tempe of today looks like a modern city, but this suburban veneer hides a town older than Tombstone with its own share of cowboys, saloons and stampedes. Come discover how this frontier college and cow town worked hard to forget much of its very unique and sometimes rough-edged past, as it grew strip malls and subdivisions where once the cattle had roamed.

Visit our Past Exhibits page to explore some of our previous featured exhibits.