Amerind Foundation Museum is an anthropological and archaeological museum

The Amerind Foundation was founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton, the non-profit organization is an anthropological and archaeological museum and research center dedicated to preserve and interprets the history and culture of the Native Americans with the finest private collection of Native American artifacts and art in the United States. The museum is located in Texas Canyon in the Little Dragoon Mountain of southeast Arizona.

The Mission of the Museum is to promote the knowledge and understanding of Native Americans through research, education and conservation. The exhibitions in the museum tell how America's first people came from Alaska to South American from the last Ice Age to the present day. In the Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery are works in western themes by artist such a Carl Oscar Borg and Frederic Remington. There is a room in the gallery that is solely dedicated to the works of indigenous artists, these works change every six months to a year.

A store is located in the museum offering arts, crafts, books on prehistory, history and Native American cultures to visitors. During the year several Indian artists will demonstrate their skills in the main gallery of the museum.

Many events, workshops and cultural exploration tours are held by the foundation throughout the year. Most of these events are open to the general public, although there are some tours that are reserved for the members of the foundation. The workshops are taught by respected Native artists with the tours being led by staff of the museum and area Native experts.

Exhibits in the gallery include an amazing basket that was found by a ten year old boy in 1910 close to the Mexican border. Experts believe this basket was made by Chiricahua Apache. A permanent exhibit in the gallery is the Images in Time and Place exhibit, which displays objects from the collection in over 1,600 square feet of display area. These images may be figurative, such as human or animal motifs, or expressions. Time objects are from prehistoric, historic and contemporary contexts and Place encourages visitors to think of the landscape or environment of the culture which is represented.

The Timeline Hallway exhibits a time line of prehistoric human occupations in the southwest and artifacts from the Paleo-Indians, the archaic period and the areas of culture of early farming, Hohokam, Mogollon and Ancestral Pueblos. Visitors will find archaeological work done by the foundation in the Amerind Archaeology Room, included in this room is information and artifacts from William Shirley Fulton's early explorations.

Other rooms and exhibits include the Ethnology Room, Hopi Paintings on Paper: Drawing on a life of Ritual and Community, Traditions in Clay, The Mata Ortiz Gallery, and A maker of Wagons, A Maker of Memories and the Fulton-Hayden Memorial Art Gallery, which houses the art collection of the Fulton Family.

School programs are offered for schools and youth groups. Indoor and outdoor tours and activities are offered to students to understand the history of the Native Americans and to participate in activities to address Social Study Standards.

A store is located in the Museum selling authentic, museum quality American Indian made arts and crafts. There is also jewelry, baskets, weavings, pottery, books, posters, CD's, mugs and clothing.