Scottsdale Historical Museum

Small but FREE museum with some interesting local history displayed. Right in the heart of the Civic Center Development. Worth a quick stop.

Huge new Park area at Scottsdale City Hall -- great Scottsdale History Museum

The Scottsdale Historical Museum is a small, but packed history of the founding family of Scottsdale. Admission is FREE! There is a ramp for those who need assistance and cannot use the stairs to enter. Volunteers available to answer questions and point you in the direction to start.

What a neat little museum. It's located in the Civic Center Mall, and right across from the spiral staircase. Once you come in, it's basically one small room to the side with a display of what a classroom would look like back then with a video playing. From there, you can walk in a circular path. There's interpretive signs and artifacts hung on both walls, and they have other historical displays so you can see what life was like at the time. While you could walk through everything in just 5 minutes, there was so much to read and see- it took me about 45 minutes to finish perusing.
The volunteer docents there were very welcoming. On the way out, there is a cute gift shop to stop by.

Interesting and informative and free! The staff members were very very nice and helpful. I would recommend it if you're walking round in old Town scottsdale, there was some really cool before and after pics of scottsdale as well as the city's origin story. I had a fun visit ! The building used to be a schoolhouse and then it was a library!

Excellent museum! Tons of information about Scottsdale and how the city center has grown. The staff is friendly and had much information I felt welcomed perfect for a date.

I grew up in Scottsdale so when I was a kid, this building was a library. Scottsdale has done a nice job of turning it into a museum. It doesn't take to long to go through it and well worth the time to see the history of the area.