Tucson Wagon and History Museum 1/14/2025
Trip Cost $15
The Tucson Wagon and History Museum (formerly known as the Rodeo Parade Museum) features over 100 historic horse-drawn vehicles including the Maximillian & Carlotta coronation carriage (the last Emperor and Empress of Mexico) and carriages featured in Oklahoma, McClintock, and other western-themed movies. The museum also provides a unique and fascinating look at life in Tucson in the early 1900s, including a blacksmith shop, saddle shop, and many other exhibits and period artifacts from the turn of the 20th century.
We’ll meet at the Photography Club at 8:30 AM for departure at 8:45 AM. Please wear your GVR Photography Club or Camera Club badge, if you have one. For those carpooling, $6.00 is an appropriate contribution to the driver.
We will drive to the museum where free parking is provided for guests. There we’ll be met by a docent, who will guide us through the various exhibits. This behind-the-scenes tour will enable participants to use tripods, monopods, and flash equipment. The tour should take approximately 2 1/2 hours, ending around noon.
The tour involves extensive walking and standing. Club members with mobility issues may find this tour challenging.
Following the tour, participants are invited to a no-host lunch at one of the many local Mexican restaurants where the trip will end about 1:30 PM. We should return to Green Valley by 2:30 PM.
Additional information about the Tucson Wagon and History Museum is available here.
GVR requires that every person participating in club's field trips must sign a waiver absolving GVR of any liability. You will be required to sign the waiver at the Photography Club before the trip departs.
Tom Parker will be our trip leader. For questions email Tom Parker at tparker324@aol.com or call 618-304-1456.
Last date to cancel for a refund is January 7, 2025.
If you need to cancel please contact the Field Trip Coordinator Lynn Rozema at 719-351-5193 or email lrozema51@gmail.com. We may have people on the wait list to take your place.
NOTICE:
All participants need to be responsible for an assessment of their mobility and health issues relating to field trips. Some trips may not be appropriate, but you must make that determination. However, the trip leader may deny participation in a specific field trip to anyone deemed not suitably prepared or able to walk with the group.
The club strives to provide several field trips specifically designed for members with physical limitations.
To participate in this event, you must be a member of the GVR Photography Club and GVR.
The GVR Photography Club is located in the Recreation Village of Santa Rita Springs.