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Tours

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The Sharlot Hall Museum offers tours for school groups as well as the general public.  Tours are conducted by volunteer guides well trained in the history and lore of the museum and Sharlot Hall herself.

The Sharlot Hall Museum is also a great choice for homeschool outings.  Tours are free for all children under 18.

Our tour guides work to stay up to date on all current Arizona State Education standards.  Before your tour begins, we welcome you to communicate to your assigned docent the particular curriculum and standards that you are required to meet.

Interactive Adventures

The Sharlot Hall Museum also offers the following interactive public programming:

Click Here to see the Sharlot Hall Museum Interactive Public Programming.

Arizona History Adventure

The second Saturday of every month, the Sharlot Hall campus comes to life with costumed interpreters of the state’s frontier past.  Guests have the opportunity to meet and learn from a variety of real characters from Arizona history, including Jessie Frémont, Judge Fleury, Young Miss Sharlot, Judge Howard, a variety of Local Ranch Women, the School Mistress, and the boisterous and hardworking Frontier Children.  The Frontier Store is kept open, the Print Shop is in full operation, and all day you can smell the aroma of authentic frontier cuisine cooking on the wood stove in the Ranch House.

Click Here to see the Sharlot Hall Museum Calendar of Events.

Fort Whipple Living History Program

The Fort Whipple Museum (located at the Bob Stump Veterans Affairs Medical Center) offers its own Living History programs on the third Saturday of the months of February, May, August and November.

Humanities Lecture Series

The Sharlot Hall Museum is the host for the ongoing Humanities Lecture Series.  Click Here for dates, times, and details on upcoming events in this series.

Volunteer Education

The Sharlot Hall and Fort Whipple Museums welcome new volunteers.  Volunteers can sign up to be tour guides or docents, help out at the Gift Store, assist at special events and festivals, maintain the Museum’s showplace gardens, participate in Blue Rose Theater productions, or get involved with the Museum’s collections.

Every volunteer is provided with extensive training in his or her chosen task.  Docents and Tour Guides receive ongoing instruction in the history and historical characters that lie behind the Sharlot Hall Museum, as well as in the museum’s policies and procedures.  Docents generally choose to focus on a particular part of the museum, whether a particular building or exhibit, and that focus is reflected in their training.

Volunteer training sessions are held every Wednesday and Saturday at 11 A.M. in the Sharlot Hall Museum Education Office.

Click Here for more information on volunteer opportunities at Sharlot Hall and Ft. Whipple Museums.

Traveling Trunks

The Sharlot Hall Museum welcomes all community members, especially our younger ones, to make use of our "Traveling Trunks" for a hands-on, interactive history esperience.  There are ten different Traveling Trunks, each containing items pertaining to a different aspect of Arizona history.  The trunks contain a wide range of objects and historical artifacts, from period kitchen and household implements to native animal bones, maps of local mines, and Native American stone tools.  The Traveling Trunks are an educational gold mine for schools, community groups, and homeschool parents who want to give their students a truly exciting and interactive learning experience.

For lists and descriptions of the contents of each individual trunk, please Click Here.