This exhibit includes over 800 objects and audio-visual displays exploring the history of gems, minerals, copper, shells and other items throughout the Southwest.
Artist Jillian McDonald will be in-residence at the museum as she creates a sustainability-themed work of art on site. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist and participate in her...
This exhibit features several installations that incorporate photography, film and video to explore new ways of presenting moving imagery. Featured artists include Jon Fisher and Jeff Shore, Aaron...
Old Traditions in New Pots: Silver Seed Pots' features miniature silver seed pots given to the Heard by Norman L. Sandfield and ison display in the Heard's Sandra Day O'Connor Gallery.
This exhibit examines the ways that artists depict their lives and survive in a cold environment. The art depicts themes of land, family, housing and taditional ways of getting food through hunting...
This gallery features 2,500 square feet and deals with the growth of wildland firefighting in the United States. It includes a replica of a lookout cabin, several pieces of apparatus, a wide variety...
In this 10,000 square foot gallery are 27 motorized pieces dating from 1897 to 1930. Most of the pieces are American. Makers include American La France, Seagrave, Robinson, Ahrens-Fox, Mack, Howe...
This 10,000 square foot gallery contains over 40 manual and horse drawn pieces of apparatus, dating from 1725 to 1908. There are pieces from the United States, England, France, Austria and Japan...
Inspired by E.M. Forester's short story 'The Machine Stops,' this exhibit features a collection of prints that examine the relationships between humanity and technology.
The National Firefighting Hall of heroes is a 3,000 square foot gallery that deals with the human element of firefighting. In this gallery can be found the names of the thousands of American...
This gallery of 5,000 square feet contains 11 restored engines dating from 1930 to 1968, including a 1950 Autocar high pressure fog, a 1930 Ahrens-Fox Quad and a 1961 Mercedes-Metz TLF-8 all-terrain...
This 5,000 square foot gallery contains three fine aerial trucks made by American La France, Seagrave and Pirsch, as well as a classic 1935 American La France Model 400 engine and a 1935 Ford/Pirsch...