Beshba-Gowah Museum

I am afraid that I must agree with Michelle W.
The coffee and video were the highlights of my time there. Also, the gift shop was much more interesting than the actual exhibit. The exhibit portion is very small and not well put together. The ruins area is also very small and can be walked through within 5 minutes.
If you are in Globe with nothing to do, supporting this organization/​city may not be a bad idea. After all, it’s something to do. However, it is certainly not worth it to take a trip to Globe to see this museum!

Very small museum, nothing too special, but you do pick up a few tidbits of history about the ruins. It’s interesting to see the model recreation of what the ruins looked like when they were inhabited, compared to the bare-​bones structures they are now. The video you watch in the other room is interesting, and the staff here are very friendly.

OK the «Museum» looks like a bad 4-​H project. There is a film the hostess was very insistent that we watch. I was curious if she worked on commission or was really sure we would find it even minimally interesting (she was wrong). You don’t get time like that in your life back. The ruins themselves are interesting and well worth it but if you can somehow escape the «hospitality» of being held captive for the movie it’s an interesting place to spend 45 minutes or so.

So you pay $ 5 per person to go in and sit through a mildly interesting video at which point you realize the «free» coffe and tghe air conditioning are really the hihglight. Then you walk through the gift shop, which was actually interesting to me, and into sn 8^th grade social science project which is the museum portion of this experience.
There are some interesting artifacts, but having taught 8^th grade and assigned them to make a museum exhibit about America’s westward epxansion, I can verify that the quality of the exhibits is that of an 8^th grade project. And it’sd a small room. It could take you 10 whole minutes to ready everything in every exhibit.
I am glad there is a seperate page to review the actualy ruins, which are included in your $ 5 fee, because they are awesome! So take my advice and watch the little video for the mildly interesting info, the «free» coffee and good access to air & bathroom and then go have fun in the ruins. Unless, of course, you’re an 8^th grader looking for ideas for you own westward expansion museum project,