Phoenix Art Museum

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The Phoenix Art Museum is one magnificent, sprawling home for exquisite visual arts. Popular exhibitions featuring artists such as Rembrandt, Norman
Rockwell, Annie Leibowitz and Monet are shown along side the Museum’s outstanding collection of more than 18,000 works of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design.

Opened in 1959, the Phoenix Art Museum, like the Valley Metro Light Rail system, mirrors the growth of Phoenix from a small desert town to the sixth largest city in the United States. Now, the classically progressive look of its 203,000-square-foot building is a work of art in itself. 

Designed by New York architects Tod Williams/Billie Tsien & Associates in the mid-1990s and expanded by them in 2006, it integrates art and architecture with the southwestern landscape and provides sweeping interior spaces. Like any work of art, it changes when you look at it from different perspectives.