Tumacácori Museum

Before the National Park Service built visitor centers to a formula, it built this one to fit its place. Raised in 1937 in the Spanish Colonial and Mission Revival style, with a patio, a fountain, and a tiled dome, the Tumacácori museum was meant to echo the ruin it guards rather than compete with it. It worked well enough that the building is now a National Historic Landmark in its own right. Inside, the exhibits tell the O'odham and mission story the church outside can only gesture at.

What the plaque says

Tumacacori Museum. National Historic Landmark. , Tumacacori Museum has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This site possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of America. , 1987 , National Park Service , United States Department of the Interior

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tumacácori National Historical Park — 0.4 mi
  Arizona's first mission, on O'odham ground along the Santa Cruz River.

More markers nearby

• Mission San José de Tumacácori — steps away
• Tubac — 2.8 mi
• Baca Float Number 3 — 3.0 mi
• Juan Bautista de Anza — 3.1 mi