In December, the Presidio Museum provides opportunities to learn more about our culture and history through our Luminaria Nights holiday celebration and our usual monthly events. Bring all of your out-of-town visitors to experience Tucson’s history and culture!
Luminaria Nights, the Presidio Museum’s holiday celebration, will be extended to two nights this year! Special thanks to our media sponsor The Arizona Daily Star. Each night’s offerings will be different, and are included in general admission:
Friday, Dec. 7, 4-7:30 pm
- Luminarias at both the Presidio Museum and at La Cocina
- Docent Tours
- Presidio Museum Gift Shop and Old Town Artisans Shops open until 7:30 pm
- Live entertainment at La Cocina Restaurant by the Greg Morton & Friends Bluegrass Band at 6:30 pm and Oscar Fuentes, a performer whose musical genres include rock and roll, salsa, pop, musica rancera, and blues, at 9:30 pm.
Saturday, Dec. 8, 4-7:30 pm
- Luminarias at both the Presidio Museum and at La Cocina
- Carrillo School’s Las Posadas Procession arriving at 4:15 pm
- The Night Before Christmas read in English and Spanish
- Cookie decorating and paper ornament making
- Night-time musket firings throughout the evening
- Tamales available for sale
- Presidio Museum Gift Shop and Old Town Artisans Shops open until 7:30 pm
- Live entertainment at La Cocina by folk singer Eb Eberlein at 7 pm and guitar player, singer and composer Miguel Reyes whose musical styles include salsa, classical, Bossa Nova, ska, jazz and rock, at 9:30 pm.
Monthly events include Family Adventure Hour held on Saturday, Dec. 22, from 10:30 am to 12 pm. Bring the kids and the young at heart for a morning of family activities and stories. The Old and New World Harvests Docent Demonstration will be held from 1 to 3 pm on Sunday, Dec. 23. Learn about the crops and bounty the Native Americans obtained from the Sonoran Desert as well as the plants and foods brought from Europe. The Blacksmith Demonstration will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 26, from 10 am to 1 pm. Bring your holiday guests to see our blacksmiths at work making nails, horseshoes and other important tools of the Presidio era. All of these activities are included in regular admission.
The Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum is located on the northeast corner of the original Presidio at 196 N. Court Ave. The Presidio Museum is a reconstruction of the original Tucson Presidio built in 1775. Docent tours give visitors a glimpse of what life in the Presidio was like for soldiers and other residents. Additional highlights include an original 150-year-old Sonoran row house and a 2,000-year-old prehistoric pit house. Admission to the Presidio Museum is $5 for adults, $1 for children ages 6-14 and free for children 5 and under and Presidio Museum members.
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