Titan Missile Museum - Sahuarita, AZ - a museum featuring the Titan Missile

The nation's only Titan II missile site that is accessible publicly is the Titan Missile Museum located at 1580 West Duval Mine Road in Sahuartia, Arizona. The museum is open from 8:45 am until 5:30 pm. Tours of the facility begin at nine in the morning with the last tour starting at four in the afternoon. Group tours can be gotten with reservations. Ten or more visitors can pay with one transaction for general admission.

Titan Missile Museum tours include the silo's six story view of the missile, simulated missile launches and the launch control center underground. The facility asks that no heels be worn and there are no drinks or food allowed. The exception is bottle water. There is no smoking allowed on the guided tours or inside any of the museum's buildings. The Access Portal has fifty-five steps that lead to the missile site's underground facilities.

ADA compliance is followed by Titan Missile Museum. The Visitor Services Desk has wheelchairs available and restrooms are handicapped accessible. Those requiring special assistance or with limited mobility can utilize the elevator to reach the Museum's underground facilities. A gift shop in the Museum offers a variety of items such as models, apparel and toys for visitors to purchase. Admission to the Museum is not required to shop in the gift shop which is open the same hours as the museum.

There are guided tours of Titan Missile Museum given at a cost of $6 for children age seven to twelve, $9.50 for age thirteen to sixty-two and $8.50 for those over age sixty-two. Those six and under can take the tour for free. There has to be at least ten people to make reservations for this tour with a limit of twenty-five people taking the tour at each time.

On the second Tuesday of each month the Museum offers a ninety minute tour known as the Director's Tour that is limited to twenty people and lead by a former crew commander of the Titan II. There is handicapped accessibility for the tour. Rates are the same as for one hour tours. Every other Tuesday in the month the Crew Tour is available which is also ninety minutes long like the Director's Tour. Crew members of the Titan II give the tours while telling of their experiences.

The Titan Missile Museum offers a variety of educational options for children as well. Junior Missileers provides the opportunity for children to use the Junior Missileer Booklet to complete activities and games in order to earn a Certificate and Junior Missileer Badge to be a Junior Missileer. Science Saturdays are held from 9am until 10:30 am, 11am until 12;30 pm and from 1:30pm until 3pm on May 30, June 27, July 25th and August 29th. Paid admission to the museum makes these activities available at no cost.

The Titan Missile Museum is somewhere that anyone with even a passing interest in missiles should visit if they are ever in the Sahuarita, Arizona area. Additional information about admission fees and tours can be gotten by contacting the museum directly.