Heard Museum
Phoenix museum devoted to the art and cultures of American Indian peoples, founded in 1929.
The Heard Museum was founded in 1929 by Dwight B. and Maie Bartlett Heard to house the collection of American Indian art and material culture they had assembled in Arizona. The original Spanish Colonial Revival building around a shaded courtyard still stands at the heart of a campus that has grown to more than 130,000 square feet of galleries, performance space and gardens. Holdings now exceed 40,000 objects, supported by a library and archive of some 34,000 volumes.
Programming is developed in close consultation with Native artists and communities, and the museum is a Smithsonian Affiliate. Long-running displays include HOME: Native People in the Southwest, and Away From Home, which documents the history of American Indian boarding schools. Changing exhibitions give space to contemporary Native artists. The outdoor Libby Amphitheater hosts the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest each February, and the Guild Indian Fair and Market in March draws several hundred artists.
Highlights
- Spanish Colonial Revival courtyard building of 1929
- HOME: Native People in the Southwest permanent gallery
- Away From Home, on American Indian boarding schools
- Libby Amphitheater, venue for the Hoop Dance Contest
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