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Tempe Historical Museum

The Tempe Historical Museum was founded by the Tempe Historical Society, which opened a 4,800-square foot exhibit hall in the east wing of the Tempe Public Library building in 1972. In 1984, the Museum became a division of the City of Tempe's Community Services Department. In the following year, a bond issue was approved, and work began on converting the entire 36,000-square foot library building into a new museum. The new Tempe Historical Museum, with an 8,000-square foot exhibit gallery, opened to the public on June 15, 1991. The Museum also operates the Petersen House Museum, a restored Queen Anne Victorian house that is used to interpret daily life in Tempe around the turn of the century.

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  Tempe Historical Museum

  809 East Southern Avenue
  Tempe, AZ 85282

  Phone: (480)350-5100

  Fax: (480)350-5150

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  12/06/08

  Holiday Fantasia

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• Past Events

  09/18/08	3rd Thirstday Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
  06/18/08- 07/23/08	Wild Wednesdays
  05/18/08	Celebrate International Museum Day in Tempe
  05/18/08	International Museum Day
  03/20/08	Arizona Women's Heritage Trail: Marking Their Sites
  03/13/08	Refugee Film Series - 'The Refugee All Stars'
  03/13/08	Hohokam Rock Art Tour
  03/12/08	In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women
  03/06/08	Refugee Film Series - 'Saigon, U.S.A.'
  02/28/08	Refugee Film Series - 'Sentenced Home'
  02/21/08	Refugee Film Series - 'Don't Fence Me In: Major Mary and the Karen Refugees from Burma'
  02/13/08	Shady Women and Respectability in Territorial Arizona
  12/01/07- 01/05/08	A Danish Christmas at the Petersen House
  11/14/07	Women in Charge of Themselves
  04/01/07- 05/01/08	Tempe Police: Their Own Story
  03/21/07	Place of Refuge Panel Discussion Series
  03/15/07	Hohokam Rock Art Tour
  03/13/07	Spring Sensation
  02/15/07	Third Thirstday Night Cafe
  02/14/07	Tempe Historical Society Speakers' Program - Dr. Jay Cravath
  12/02/06	Gingerbread Fantasia
  10/26/06- 11/16/06	Southeast Asian Refugee Film Series
  10/19/06	3rd Thirstday Night Café -- Santos Vega: Mexican American History and Culture in Transition
  10/08/06	Family History Album Display
  09/21/06	Third Thirstday Night Cafe: Update on Hayden Flour Mill Archaeology
  06/28/06- 07/26/06	Wild Wednesdays
  05/06/06	A Night to Preserve
  04/20/06	3rd Thirstday Night Cafe - Teens Cafe
  04/12/06	Speakers' Program
  04/12/06	Tempe Historical Society's Speakers' Program
  04/04/06- 04/25/06	Southeast Asian Film Series
  03/16/06	3rd Thirstday Night Cafe - Leandro Soto
  03/08/06	Speakers' Program
  03/08/06	Tempe Historical Society's Speakers' Program
  02/16/06	Third Thirstday Night Cafe
  02/16/06	Third Thirstday Night Cafe
  02/08/06	Speakers' Program
  02/08/06	Tempe Historical Society's Speakers' Program
  01/19/06	Third Thirstday Night Cafe
  01/11/06	Speakers' Program
  12/03/05	Gingerbread Fantasia
  12/03/05- 12/31/05	Museum Holiday Decorations
  11/17/05	Third Thirstay Night Cafe
  10/20/05	Third Thirstday Night Cafe
  06/15/05- 07/27/05	Wild Wednesdays
  06/01/05- 08/04/05	Time & Again: The Photographs of Allen Dutton
  06/01/05- 09/01/05	Scrapbooks for History
  05/19/05- 01/05/06	Behind the Camera: Picturing Mill Avenue
  05/19/05	3rd Thursday Night Café with photographer Larry Mishler Mill
  04/21/05	When the Spirits Come to Dance
  04/13/05	Tempe Historical Society Speakers - The Changing U.S. Demography
  03/17/05	Rock Art Tour
  03/17/05	Third Thirstday Night Cafe - William Dunmire
  03/09/05	Tempe Historical Society Speakers - They Came Before Columbus
  02/17/05	Third Thirstday Night Cafe - Matthew C. Whitaker
  02/09/05	Tempe Historical Society Speakers - Asian Americans in Arizona
  01/20/05	Third Thirstday Night Cafe - John R. Balfour
  09/01/04- 01/28/05	The Bug Line
  01/01/04- 01/01/06	Main Gallery - The Story of Tempe