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Chandler Museum The Chandler Museum features both locally produced and nationally traveling exhibits, the East Valle

The Chandler Museum is an innovative learning environment where the community comes together to share our stories, store our cultural heritage and experience Chandler as a people and place. The vision of the Museum is to be the community’s principal resource to explore its people’s history, culture, and their place in the rapidly changing world of today.

Join us for a special event in collaboration with The Office of Collecting and Design, “Flatlay Workshops.”Saturday, Oct...
09/06/2026

Join us for a special event in collaboration with The Office of Collecting and Design, “Flatlay Workshops.”

Saturday, October 10, 10:30 a.m. & 12 p.m.

The Office of Collecting & Design is known for their photographs, specifically a type of image called a flatlay: a careful arrangement of objects photographed from directly above. In these workshops, curator Jessica Oreck arrives with two giant tubs of treasure pulled from the museum's collections and turns visitors loose to sort through them. Once each person has gathered an array of objects that appeal to them, Jessica coaches them through composing a flatlay of their own, photographs it, and sends them home with a tiny instant film print.

To register, visit our website at the link in our bio!

Join us for a special event in collaboration with The Office of Collecting and Design, “Film Screening & Conversation wi...
09/05/2026

Join us for a special event in collaboration with The Office of Collecting and Design, “Film Screening & Conversation with Jessica Oreck.”

Friday, October 9, 6-8 p.m.

Threading together short films, trailers, and animations, Jessica Oreck traces the trajectory of a practice built on collecting the invisible. Not the magical, science fiction kind, but the everyday details so familiar they've slipped beneath our awareness. Between screenings, she talks about what carries from one project to the next: the research, the analogue materials, the pull toward the overlooked. From documentary features and TED-commissioned animations and from art galleries to a museum in a 42’ trailer that travels the country, it’s a case for wonder as a working method, and for paying attention to what everyone else has forgotten.

To register, visit our website at the link in our bio!

We have plenty of exciting exhibitions and programs at the Chandler Museum this month!For a full list of upcoming progra...
09/04/2026

We have plenty of exciting exhibitions and programs at the Chandler Museum this month!

For a full list of upcoming programs, visit our webite at the link in bio!

Tuesday, September 1, join us for our next History Bites lecture, “Collecting and Gathering: The Art of a Collectionist”...
08/28/2026

Tuesday, September 1, join us for our next History Bites lecture, “Collecting and Gathering: The Art of a Collectionist” 🖼️

Led by mixed media and ceramic artist Heidi Dauphin, her artistic identity is rooted in the role of collector and gatherer. Her accumulations shape both the conceptual approach and physical form of her work. From a distance, her work emphasizes strong designs intended to draw the viewer in, while up close it reveals intimate layers of detail, unexpected connections, and stories discovered through careful observation. She will talk about her process as an artist and the work that she is showing at Vision Gallery in The Collectionists from August 22 – November 7.

Happy National Dog Day, from our pups to yours! 🐾 In order: (top left to bottom right) Lucky, Nova, Mia Hamm, Ripley Cow...
08/27/2026

Happy National Dog Day, from our pups to yours! 🐾

In order: (top left to bottom right) Lucky, Nova, Mia Hamm, Ripley Cowboy, Rook, Moose, Bear

Recently, we had the pleasure of giving Representative Greg Stanton a tour of our “Being Eddie Basha” exhibit. Highligh...
08/25/2026

Recently, we had the pleasure of giving Representative Greg Stanton a tour of our “Being Eddie Basha” exhibit. Highlights included a tour by Museum manager Jody Crago, hearing recordings of Eddie’s voice on the phone, and receiving a piece of Arizona political history through a “Basha for Governor” campaign button. Thank you to Rep. Stanton and his team for stopping by!

“Being Eddie Basha” explores the life of the grocer and his family, from late 19th-century Lebanon to 21st-century Arizona. For information on our current and future exhibits, please visit our website at the link in our bio.

Surprise, we are going to be hosting the Office of Collecting and Design from Oct. 7 - 11, 2026!The Office of Collecting...
08/22/2026

Surprise, we are going to be hosting the Office of Collecting and Design from Oct. 7 - 11, 2026!

The Office of Collecting & Design is a traveling museum devoted to the diminutive, the misplaced, the unusual, and the forgotten. The space is an elaborate love letter of leftover fragments from our collective memories; meticulously organized and displayed for maximum satisfaction and delight. Immerse yourself in a world where you can open every drawer, explore every box, and discover to your heart’s content. Visitors are able to participate in a Flatlay Experience, Scavenger Hunt, or just come in to enjoy the space.

Additionally, we will be hosting free events in the museum:
Friday Oct. 9: Art Talk/Short Film Screening
Saturday, Oct. 10: Flat Lay Workshops

Tickets for Scavenger Hunts, Flatlay Experiences and more will be sold next week through our email newsletter. Sign up using the link in our bio!

I spy an exciting announcement coming soon! 👀Stay tuned on social media and sign up for our mailing list!
08/20/2026

I spy an exciting announcement coming soon! 👀

Stay tuned on social media and sign up for our mailing list!

This month's Museum Store staff pick comes from Julia, our Museum Representative!Julia says, “I love the metal cacti, th...
08/18/2026

This month's Museum Store staff pick comes from Julia, our Museum Representative!

Julia says, “I love the metal cacti, they’re great in my garden!”

Join us at the Chandler Museum for Film Friday: "War of the Worlds” with extraterrestrial treats provided by Spooky's Sw...
08/13/2026

Join us at the Chandler Museum for Film Friday: "War of the Worlds” with extraterrestrial treats provided by Spooky's Swirls! 👽

A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing—neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)—can stop it. In the expert hands of genre specialists George Pal and Byron Haskin, H. G. Wells’s end-of-civilization classic receives a chilling Cold War–era update, complete with hallucinatory Technicolor and 1950s state-of-the-art, Oscar-winning special effects. Film discussion featuring, Ed Finn, the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination and associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.

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