Members Private Tour of the Grand Canyon Museum Collection and Lunch at El Tovar

Thursday, November the 7th at 10:00am

$75 per person

Limit of 10 Participants

Lead by Richard McGaugh and Monica Buckle 

Join us for a day of exploration at The Grand Canyon Museum Collection is a storage and research facility dedicated to preserving the physical artifacts that tell the various aspects of the Grand Canyon story. The storage facility, completed in 1999, has over 6,000 square feet of climate-controlled storage and research space, and houses over 1.6 million objects from seven different disciplines: archaeology, ethnology, history, archive/ manuscripts, biology, geology, and paleontology.

Our tour is led by Kim Besom, Curator at The Grand Canyon Museum Collection. Kim Besom was instrumental in the development of VVAC’s Grand Canyon exhibition that is still on view at VVAC. Spend the morning discovering the material remains of past human life and activities at Grand Canyon, including lithic tools dating back 12,000 years to the Paleo-Indians, Archaic split- twig figurines and Ancestral Puebloan pottery. As well as, non-archaeological material artifacts of the non-native cultures at Grand Canyon, including: mining and early tourism artifacts, John Wesley Powell's pocket watch, the Walter Clement Powell diaries from the second Powell expedition, and a pen used by Woodrow Wilson to sign the act creating Grand Canyon National Park in 1919.

Additional Information

The fee includes admission to the collection center; however, admission to enter Grand Canyon National Park is an additional expense.

Lunch at El Tovar Dining Room is an additional expense.

Museum Collection Address

2C Albright Avenue

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023 (Located across from Albright Training Center)