Culture Pass

Arizona Opera

Arizona Opera produces fully-staged operas, concerts, and collaborative programs throughout the state of Arizona each year, and is among only a handful of companies in the U.S. that regularly performs in more than one city. Having just celebrated its 50th Anniversary Season, Arizona Opera mission is to elevate the transformative power of storytelling through music, cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

ASU Gammage Beyond

Are you ready to be moved? To feel joy? To be challenged? To push past the boundaries of a traditional arts experience? ASU Gammage Beyond is ready to take you beyond the normal arts experience to transport you with bold artists, powerful messages and talent like you have never seen before.

Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum

One mile southwest of the City of Globe, Arizona, stand the ruins of the ancient Salado people who occupied the site nearly 800 years ago.

This ancient village is known today as Besh Ba Gowah. The term was originally given by the Apaches to the early settlement of Globe. Roughly translated, the term means “place of metal.”

The partially restored ruins, along with the adjacent museum provide a fascinating glimpse at the lifestyle of the people who occupied this region over two centuries before Columbus discovered the “New World.”

Besh Ba Gowah offers visitors a chance to explore the ruins, a museum that houses a large collection of Salado pottery and artifacts, botanical gardens, and a gift shop.

Boyce Thompson Arboretum

Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the oldest and largest botanical garden in the state of Arizona. It is one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. The mission of Boyce Thompson Arboretum is to inspire appreciation and stewardship of desert plants, wildlife, and ecosystems through education, research and conservation.

Cave Creek Museum

The Cave Creek Museum is located in Cave Creek, Arizona, and works to preserve the artifacts of the prehistory, history, culture and legacy of the Cave Creek Mining District and the Cave Creek/Carefree foothills area through education, research, and interpretive exhibits. The Cave Creek Museum is open October through May annually. 

Chandler Center for the Arts

Located in the vibrant center of Downtown Chandler and at the core of the entertainment district, Chandler Center for the Arts is an engaging, welcoming, innovative space serving our diverse community.

With three dynamic performance spaces – the 1500-seat Main Stage, the 350-seat Hal Bogle Theatre, and the 250-seat Recital Hall, as well as two extensive art galleries – The Gallery at CCA and Vision Gallery – Chandler Center for the Arts presents the work of today’s most engaging, enlightening and relevant artists.

The Chandler Center for the Arts is a truly collaborative leader. Through its partnership with Chandler Unified School District, the students of the community share the same stage as today’s top artists in a relationship that fosters the performers of tomorrow.

Childsplay Theater Co.

Childsplay Theater Co. is a nationally and internationally respected professional theatre company whose chosen audience is children. They believe that young people deserve to experience challenging, thought-provoking theatre of the highest artistic quality.

Desert Botanical Garden

Desert Botanical Garden is here to help you enjoy the beauty of the desert and care about it. With over 140 acres of garden, 55 of them under cultivation and more than 50,000 plant displays showcased in outdoor exhibits, the Desert Botanical Garden is one of only 24 botanical gardens accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

Heard Museum

Since its founding in 1929, the Heard Museum has grown in size and stature to become recognized internationally for the quality of its collections, world-class exhibitions, educational programming and its unmatched festivals. Dedicated to the advancement of American Indian art, the Heard successfully presents the stories of American Indian people from a first-person perspective, as well as exhibitions that showcase the beauty and vitality of traditional and contemporary art. The Heard Museum sets the standard for collaborating with American Indian artists and tribal communities to provide visitors with a distinctive perspective about the art of Native people, especially those from the Southwest.

Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center

A flourishing arts and entertainment resource for more than 50 years, Arts at MCC continues a legacy of performances and exhibitions by renowned visiting artists and promising students who receive extraordinary training by acclaimed faculty. Infused with the passion, knowledge and dedication of accomplished arts instructors and mentors, inspirited novices devote countless hours honing talents that are showcased to local, national and global audiences.

Phoenix Art Museum

Located in the Central Corridor of a bustling, desert metropolis, Phoenix Art Museum has opened doors to world-class exhibitions, its comprehensive collections, and meaningful moments of learning and connection for 60 years.

The Phoenix Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony is Arizona’s only full-time, professional symphony orchestra and the state’s largest performing arts group.

Pueblo Grande Museum

Pueblo Grande Museum opened in 1929 and consists of two-thirds of a mile of interpretive trail which travels around the remains of the prehistoric Hohokam people’s ballcourt and platform. The Museum is run by the City of Phoenix, and Phoenix was the first city in the nation to hire a City Archeologist to help curate the Musuem and site. Pueblo Grande is Spanish for Large Town and appears to have been settled sometime before A.D. 500 and was abandoned around 1450 for reasons not quite known. For more information regarding admission, visit [https://pueblogrande.org/].  

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

A museum located in Scottsdale, Arizona, dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and design.

Superstition Mountain Museum

The Superstition Mountain Historical Society was formed on December 27, 1979. We are a non-profit organization, organized to collect and preserve the history and legends of Arizona’s Superstition Mountains, and to support research, education and publications involving the region. The Superstition Mountain Museum collects, preserves and displays the artifacts, history and folklore of the Superstition Mountains, Apache Junction and the surrounding region.

Theater Works

Theater Works provides opportunities for children, patrons and artists to experience theater that inspires, enriches and enlightens through the experience of the performing arts.

River of Time Museum & Exploration Center

Settlers in Arizona have depended on precious water from sources like the Verde River for centuries. The importance of water in the desert to us today, and the fascinating history of the Lower Verde Valley region is the focus of this interactive museum and exploration center.