[1] Other exhibitions include Dinosaur Hall, a real territorial jail, and a recreation of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine.

[3] The Origins gallery [4] is designed as a voyage through the timeline of the cosmos and discusses major events in the history of planet Earth.

Exhibit volunteers helped to achieve this goal by building everything from “rock blocks” and puzzles, to actual models of the fliers themselves.

Don Puffer created a 4-foot mechanical pterosaur known as “Clam Digger” that demonstrated the opening and closing of its wings.

Ed Mack's sculpture Pteranodon sternbergi is a stunning life-size model that hangs over Dinosaur Mountain.

Another of the changing exhibits was "The Primal Desert Next Door: Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands," open from February 26, 2011, until January 2013.

The exhibition was based on the book Land of Black Volcanoes and White Sands, The Pinacate and Gran Desierto De Altar Biosphere Reserve, by Larry Marshall and Clark Blake.

The Natural History Section explores, excavates, records, prepares, conserves, and researches the fossil resources in the collection at AzMNH.

[11] As ceratopsians they have a Psittacosaurus skeleton, a Zuniceratops, Protoceratops, Pentaceratops and Triceratops[12] and as iguanodonts they consist solely on a Probactrosaurus.

The opening of Mesa Grande as a heritage site dedicated to public education concerning the Hohokam and O'odham people remains a central goal of the museum.