Hooray! Today (12/5) is First Friday! If you don’t have plans, you may want to head to Downtown Phoenix to enjoy the gorgeous weather, some beautiful art, an Ollie the Trolley ride, and some FREE museums! Anyone that says Phoenix has no culture has obviously never been to First Friday!
Head to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix where everyone will get in free from 5-9 PM. Tickets are usually $11 each, so this is quite an opportunity to play for less!
Visit the Heard Museum for their First Friday Native + You program. Everyone will get into the museum FOR FREE from 6-10 (tickets are usually $18 for adults, $7.50 for kids). This month the theme is “literary treasures”.
Still have energy? Go to the Phoenix Art Museum for their First Friday event. Everyone will get in for free from 6-10 PM (tickets are usually $15 for adults, $6 for kids).
Enjoy a cool Phoenix night at the museum with drinks from ArTenders and live music by Elvis Before Noon! Music starts at 7:00 p.m.
Exhibitions on view:
- The West Select: A Western Art Invitational Sale and Exhibition – $5 for adults, $3 for youth after 6 p.m.
- Vanitas: Contemporary Reflections on Love and Death from the Collection of Stéphane Janssen – Free after 6 p.m.
- All That Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography – Free after 6 p.m.
- Don Coen: The Migrant Series – Free after 6 p.m.
- Fashioned In America – Free after 6 p.m.
- Sacred Stories and Images of the Buddha: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll – Free after 6 p.m.
- Paulo Bruscky: Art is Our Last Hope – Free after 6 p.m.
Phoenix Art Museum is one of four Artlink Phoenix First Friday Trolley hubs! Park and enjoy the museum then take the trolley tour and explore all the downtown Phoenix arts and culture destinations. The museum is conveniently located by the Central and McDowell Valley Metro Lightrail station.
First Friday is closed this week but will be back in January!
Just to recap, if you take your family of four (two adults, two kids) to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, the Heard Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum, you’ll save a whopping $137 on admission (more if you have more kids).
Enjoy!
