Category: Vacations and Travel
The vultures have landed! The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's new Vulture Culture exhibit opens next weekend! Join the celebration with temporary tattoos and face-painting for the kids and cake for everyone (while supplies last). Two turkey vultures and a black vulture committee* are the residents of one of the most innovative and creative exhibits ever developed by the Museum. It's a must-see!!! (*a group of vultures is called a committee, venue or volt)
The Celebration of Basketry and Native Foods Festival and Symposium offers an insider's look into the rich heritage and promising future of the native peoples of the Sonoran Desert. Partnering with Tohono O'odham Community Action (TOCA), the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum presents an immersive experience in the time-honored techniques of basket-weaving, cooking, language, arts and performance.
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is supporting the American Species Survival Plan (SSP) program, coordinated by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, by breeding the Museum's resident male ocelot to a female partner brought in specifically to facilitate the breeding. The Desert Museum and guests are getting ready to count down the days as kitten(s) would be born between Nov. 4 - Dec. 26, 2015.
TripAdvisor marked the fifth year of the Certificate of Excellence by creating the Hall of Fame to honor businesses that have received the Certificate of Excellence consecutively for five years. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is in the first group of inductees.