Mining for gold, lead and mercury have played an important part in the history of Quartzsite and to a lesser degree are still going on. The museum has a fine display of mining equipment. The Assay Office from the Mariquita Mine is now part of the museum and contains a display of assay and mining equipment from local mines. Larger mining equipment is displayed in outside exhibits. There is a black light display of many fluorescent minerals, common to the area.

Come in and check out our new digital slide show of our beautiful Desert blooms.

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We will be looking forward to resuming our field trips this winter. When all of our visitors return for the season. We will be posting the field trips later on. So keep checking our website out. We will also be having a newsletter going out later.

Please call 927-5229 or 927-6159

for more info

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Arizona Humanities Council, Quartzsite Museum and Quartzsite Public Library

Dr. Lisa Tohe

Navajo Code Talkers in World War II

February 27th, 2008 at 7 PM

was a huge success. Everyone is still talking about it.

That was the last one for this season. Be sure and check back next season for exciting programs.

For more information please call Quartzsite Public Library at 928-927-6593

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