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Fort Lowell Museum Grand Re-Opening Celebration
After a long community effort, the Fort Lowell Museum will be re-opening Saturday, Dec. 2. A FREE celebration for community members will be held from 10 am to 2 pm at the museum, located in Fort Lowell Park at 2900 N. Craycroft Rd.
Event activities include:
**Performances by the Old Arizona Brass Band re-creators of the 4th Cavalry
Regimental Band of Fort Lowell at 11 am and 2 pm.
**Re-enactor discussing Dr. Walter Reed, Fort Lowell’s most famous doctor
**Re-enactor portraying Louise Girard, the wife of Joseph Basil Girard, a post surgeon and prolific artist
**Tours of the hospital ruins presented by medical historians
**Tours led by archaeologist Homer Thiel of the Officer’s Quarters at 11:30 and 12:30
**Blacksmith demonstrations
**Interactive children’s activities
**Displays on:
-Job of the Fort Lowell Quartermaster
-1800s frontier Army
-Arizona’s Civil War history by the Tucson Civil War Roundtable
Following this opening event, the museum will be open regularly on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9am – 2pm and admission will be $3/person.
Fort Lowell Museum is a special building that marks the site of the original supply outpost known as Fort Lowell which was active for only eighteen years from 1873 to 1891. The building is a re-creation of an officers home with displays inside focusing on life at the fort and the history of the site. The building sits adjacent to the remains of the original officer’s quarters on the west side of Craycroft Road. The Museum serves as an interpretive center for the cultural assets throughout the park including the remains of the hospital where Dr. Walter Reed practiced, the corrals, the laundry, the officer’s quarters and the commissary.
Besides interpretation on the military post, the museum also presents exhibits on the Apache people who lived in the region and endured hardship with the arrival of Anglo and Mexican settlers. It offers an exhibit on the Buffalo soldiers who passed through the area. Finally, it shares information about the important prehistoric site located in the park, known as the Hardy site, which includes an unearthed Hohokam pit house. All of the people who lived in this area were there due to its proximity to the river confluence of the Pantano, Tanque Verde and Rillito.
The Fort Lowell Museum is managed by the Tucson Presidio Trust, which also operates the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson Museum.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2085600-0
