Overview

Museum hours: Monday - Saturday, 8 am to 4 pm
(year-round)

Tour times: Tuesday - Saturday, 9 am & 1 pm
(arrive 30 minutes early for video)
March - November (weather permitting)

Tags

  • Tourist Information Center
  • History Museum

Description

Casa Malpais is an ancient pueblo from the Mogollon Culture, built and occupied between 1250 and 1340 AD. The site contains a Great Kiva, solar calendar, 50-60 room pueblo, and an ancient staircase that, when ascended, takes you up on the rim of the shield volcano that created the lava flow the site is located on. Labeled the "fissure pueblo" by Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1883, it has numerous means of tracking the sun, and is truly a remarkable site for its time.
Visitors to the museum will enjoy many of the artifacts that were excavated in the early 1990's, as well as a film about the site that features Hopi and Zuni elders that talk about how their culture relates to the site. The site became a National Historic Landmark in 1964.

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