20-60 Minutes
Admire Art and Architecture
Tumacácori National Historical Park
The visitor center and museum building was designed to be an interpretive experience that embodied the historic style of the mission churches in the area. In 1935, a group of National Park Service employees mounted an expedition to collect architectural information about churches in northern Sonora. Architectural features such as the carved wooden doors, arched portales, and corbels are details brought from this expedition to Mexico. Find them all!
Many visitors breeze through the visitor center and museum, eager to encounter the main attraction of Tumacácori's adobe church. However, in the course of only a few steps, they will have been primed to many unique features of Spanish colonial architecture. In fact, Tumacácori's visitor center and museum building is listed as a National Historic Landmark -- one of only 50 in Arizona -- because of its ingenious and subtle interpretive value.
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Museum ExhibitsArchitecture and BuildingPaintingSculpturearchitectureNPS Historyhistoric preservationSpanish colonialart
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Duration
20-60 Minutes
Fees Apply
No
Seasons
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
Time of Day
Day
Accessibility
The visitor center and museum are fully accessible with smooth flooring, ramps, and push-button door openers.
Pets
No
Reservations
No
Location
Tumacácori Visitor Center and Museum