Kingman Museums

There are three museums in Kingman - and one price gets you into all three!!  We started at the Route 66 Museum. (Of course!)  This mural pretty well tells the whole story.  Guess we don't even need to go inside, huh?

Silly people!  Of COURSE we have to go inside!! 

All of the American Southwest is full of artisans.  A local artist did this mural, portraits of every American President and their First Ladies (not always their wives, by the way) which are shown in the Mohave Museum here in Kingman, and even a depiction of Mount Rushmore.  It's really great artwork if you ever get a chance to see it up close.

The Route 66 Museum, in part, tells the story of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl migration of America's Great Plains farmers to California.  There are even huge panels quoting pages from "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's famous novel about those times.  It's a good museum - but not nearly as good as the Mohave Museum that we spent a couple of hours in a few days later!

Here at the Mohave Museum they have everything from Native Americans in the area to the blacksmith's shop outside to the story of World War II and Arizona's part in that event. 

I'll be sharing parts of this story with you over the next few days!