Museum: Arizona History Museum

Join us a the Arizona History Museum for a spooky good time on Saturday, October 26 from 5 PM to 8 PM.

Interactive trick-or-treating, crafts, activities & games, face painting, live musical performances by Kids Unlimited and much more. Horror fans can challenge themselves with our infamous Horror Scavenger Hunt for prizes. Costumes are encouraged!

Daring adults can also book The Museum Ghost Hunt at 9pm, hosted by The Tucson Ghost Co. Explore the history museum, lights out and hunt for ghostly afterlife amongst remnants of the past! Tickets sold separately, click the register button for more info.

Join us and Dr. Laura Muñoz to discuss her most recent work, Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality.  Dr. Muñoz comes from a family of teachers, including her maternal great-grandmother who taught in the early 1900s in Texas public schools. She is the inspiration behind Dr. Munoz’s book, Desert Dreams a study of Arizona students and teachers in the territorial and early statehood days. Desert Dreams documents the unknown contributions of Mexican Americans in founding, shaping, and participating in Arizona education since 1871.

Dr. Muñoz is currently an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned her Ph.D. in American History at Arizona State University. 

Join the Arizona Historical Society and author Melani Martinez for a book talk about her most recent work El Molino.

Join us and author of the recently published book, Picturing Sabino: A Photographic History of a Southwestern Canyon, for an exploration of the ways historical photographs can illuminate Sabino Canyon’s past.