Sedona Heritage Museum — Attraction in Sedona

We enjoyed it and learned a lot about Sedona!

If you’re wanting to learn more about the history and evolution of Sedona and also how it got its name - check this place out.

We spent about 1 hour, maybe a bit more here, exploring several buildings, each filled with Sedona area history.

The main building houses a huge amount of local history in the form of plaques, dioramas, physical items, pictures, art and more.

The barn houses an old horse draw buggy, a restored vintage Sedona fire truck, an entire apply processing plant and much more.

The small, tan colored building seen closest to the entry point is a nearly 100 year old, fully restored movie set piece that was used as the telegraph office. The wireless set is in there along with a vast amount of movie posters, artifacts and details about the impact the filming of nearly 100 westerns had on Sedona.

There’s also some spectacular views of close rock formations from the property.

There are a couple of well done bronze art pieces outside. One is of a Cowboy Storyteller telling stories to two children. Another bronze is of a couple, standing on a broken wagon wheel, holding a lantern and looking straight ahead. This one is by artist John Muir and tells a story.

This museum was a...

The museum is in a former private home of a prominent owner of the Mine. Outside of the home are some items related to Mining and the railroad that you can walk around and look at. Inside the home there's a lot of information about the original family that built the home and many pictures of the home and the family in their heyday. Also, history about the mine and general development of the area. There are only two rooms that are preserved from the time when it was a home. One seems to be a study and the other is an upstairs bathroom. This makes it a little hard to visualize what the house was like as a home. It must have been very grand, it's quite large. There's a small screening room that plays a movie about the town and its history every hour on the hour. Usually these videos run 15 to 20 minutes. But this one is almost an hour. So if you want to watch the whole thing, make sure you alot that amount of time to do it. There's a nice picnic area to the side of the museum. I went during the off-season, so there was no one at the gate. Payment was done inside of the museum. I'm not sure if you would be allowed to use the picnic area without paying. The view from the land is a 360 of the entire area and is...

I found the Heritage museum well put together but not very exciting. It does a decent job of capturing the history of Sedona for sure. It’s helpful that they have QR codes that you can scan taking you to a YouTube video to listen to the information about the house and the people as you walk through the museum, but it’s a little bit clunky because you have to keep going back and scanning the next code as they’re all on the same plaque in the room. It would be really helpful if you could just hit next on the YouTube channel.

I went in July when it was really warm so the buildings outside were anti-climatic, especially because it’s a self-guided tour with minimal information available.

My favorite room was the family‘s main bedroom as it had a lot of plaques to read about the different prominent families that were a part of the early Sedona era.

I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to my friends or family but if you have nothing else to do it’s not a bad way to...