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2022-2023 Season Opening Day!

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

We're back and beautiful! Plan on stopping in today or any open day to study our wonderful collection of pre-history pottery and artifacts in our Archaeology Wing, linger in the History Wings to follow Cave Creek's evolution from a miitary outpost to the Town we know and love today, admire the amazing art on loan by local and amazing artist Beth Zink. Be sure to visit our outdoor campus as well. Welcome back, Friends!

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The Arizona Gold Mining Experience

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

*** Due to the popularity of this event, pre-purchase of tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased on the EVENT page. *** SPECIAL 2ND SATURDAY TIME!!!! Museum opens at 8:30 am for event check-in, The AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE begins at 10 am! The Cave Creek Museum’s AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE is unique with its display of the complete hard rock ore extraction process, with the mine shaft, tramway, ore carts, crushing and extraction, that are always on display, but operated on 2nd Saturdays.

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Kiwanis’ Family Fun Days: Become a Desert Explorer!

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

Desert Awareness Committee brings a touch of the desert for lots of family fun. Become a “Desert Explorer” and figure out who eats who in the desert at our predator and prey station. Discover the mysteries behind how plants survive in the desert with no rain and hot temperatures at the scrubby skins station. Earn a special bookmark when you become desert ‘savvy’!

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Cave Creek Museum Presents: Stacey Goodman – “The Dust Never Settles”

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

The Dust Never Settles" is a riveting, first-hand account from inside Ground Zero.  Stacey Goodman was a female police officer with federal disaster training who was pulled out of the suburbs of Long Island and thrust into the heart of the 9/11 mayhem of the World Trade Center devastation.

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The Arizona Gold Mining Experience

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

*** Due to the popularity of this event, pre-purchase of tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased on the EVENT page. *** SPECIAL 2ND SATURDAY TIME!!!! Museum opens at 8:30 am for event check-in, The AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE begins at 10 am! The Cave Creek Museum’s AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE is unique with its display of the complete hard rock ore extraction process, with the mine shaft, tramway, ore carts, crushing and extraction, that are always on display, but operated on 2nd Saturdays.

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Kiwanis’ Family Fun Days: Thanksgiving on the Dude Ranch

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

Kiwanis' Family Fun Days is FREE, thanks to the generosity of the Kiwanis Club of Carefree. What happened when families spent Thanksgiving at an Arizona dude ranch? Probably a lot of eating and playing of games and learning some cool tricks from the cowboys! You can try to do all these things when you come visit the Museum and act like a "dude"!

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Cave Creek Museum Presents: Roger Naylor – Arizona’s Scenic Roads and Hikes

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

The Cave Creek Museum is excited to welcome Arizonian and writer and blogger Roger Naylor as our December presenter. Author of “Boots & Burgers: An Arizona Handbook for Hungry Hikers”; “Arizona Kicks on Route 66”, and “Death Valley: Hottest Place on Earth”, Roger’s love of our beautiful Grand Canyon State is evident in his prose and photos. With his latest book, "Arizona’s Scenic Roads and Hikes", travel writer Roger Naylor coaxes readers outdoors with an array of wonders.

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The Arizona Gold Mining Experience

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

*** Due to the popularity of this event, pre-purchase of tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased on the EVENT page. *** SPECIAL 2ND SATURDAY TIME!!!! Museum opens at 8:30 am for event check-in, The AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE begins at 10 am! The Cave Creek Museum’s AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE is unique with its display of the complete hard rock ore extraction process, with the mine shaft, tramway, ore carts, crushing and extraction, that are always on display, but operated on 2nd Saturdays.

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Kiwanis’ Family Fun Days: A Homesteader Christmas

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

Kiwanis' Family Fun Days is FREE, thanks to the generosity of the Kiwanis Club of Carefree. Christmas for Arizona's homesteaders was very much "do-it-yourself". They made their own ornaments, their own cards, their own wrapping paper--they even made the gifts they gave to one another! Make your own special ornament and make your own fun at the Cave Creek Museum!

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The Arizona Gold Mining Experience

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

*** Due to the popularity of this event, pre-purchase of tickets is required. Tickets may be purchased on the EVENT page. *** SPECIAL 2ND SATURDAY TIME!!!! Museum opens at 8:30 am for event check-in, The AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE begins at 10 am! The Cave Creek Museum’s AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE is unique with its display of the complete hard rock ore extraction process, with the mine shaft, tramway, ore carts, crushing and extraction, that are always on display, but operated on 2nd Saturdays.

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Kiwanis’ Family Fun Days: Wild at Heart Visits the Cave Creek Museum

Cave Creek Museum 6140 E Skyline Drive, Cave Creek, AZ

Raptor rescue, rehabilitation, release and education organization Wild at Heart joins the Cave Creek Museum for a Kiwanis' Family Fun Day that will give kids and their families the opportunity to interact with, learn about, and understand the importance of raptors in our ecological system.

LOCATION

6140 E Skyline Drive
Cave Creek, AZ 85331

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HOURS

Open October through May

Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday:
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Friday
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
(Closed Holidays)

AZ GOLD MINING EXPERIENCE

2nd Saturday of the Month     

10:30 am – 4.30 pm

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480-488-2764

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