Trades, Skills, Arts, and Crafts of the Historic Southwest at the Tucson Presidio Museum

Date and Time

• Saturday, Jan 10, 2026  10am - 2pm

Location

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Details

January 10, 2026
Trades, Skills, Arts, and Crafts of the Historic Southwest Living History
10 am – 2 pm
Included with admission

See how men and women lived, worked, and kept house in the late 1700s – early 1900s and explore some of the skills, arts, and crafts that emerged from the historic Southwest.

Schedule of Activities:
10:30 am, 11:45 am, 1:30 pm - Musket demonstration
11 am - 1 pm (ongoing): Natural dyes talk and examples
11 am and 1 pm - Cannon firing

Demonstrations and displays include:
*Blacksmiths at work
*Spanish colonial military life and artillery demonstrations
*Sample Mexican hot chocolate and freshly made tortillas
*Traditional Spanish music with Camino Ancho
*Traveling peddlers
*Knitting and crochet
*Colocha embroidery demonstration and a new temporary exhibit in the south exhibit room
*And more to come!