Pueblo Grande Museum Celebrates Hispanic and Native American Heritage

Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park will offer free admission from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, to celebrate the cultural connections between the Mesoamerican culture and the Hohokam culture of the southwest Salt River Valley.

As part of the celebration of the connections between these two ancient cultures, the members of the Huehuecoyotl Aztec Community will perform a ceremonial dance. Museum staff and volunteers also will lead organized tours of the Pueblo Grande site. Children can enjoy arts and crafts activities.

More information is available at pueblogrande.com or by calling 602-495-0901.

About Pueblo Grande Museum
Pueblo Grande Museum is located at a 1,500 year-old Hohokam village ruins in modern day Phoenix. For over 70 years the museum has been dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Hohokam culture. On the 102 acre park grounds, visitors explore the ruin of an 800 year-old platform mound possibly used by the Hohokam for ceremonies or as an administrative center. An excavated ballcourt, and to full-scale reproductions of prehistoric Hohokam homes can be viewed along the ruin trail. The site also includes some of the last remaining intact Hohokam irrigation canals.

The Museum, part of the City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department since 1929, is dedicated to enhancing the knowledge of prehistory, history, and ethnology of inhabitants of the Southwest, and promoting a greater understanding of the diversity of cultures past and present, for our guests and the citizens of Phoenix.