Number of visits to the Mesa Arts Center, Arizona Museum of Natural History, and i.d.e.a. Museum. The term visits refers to the number of distinct admissions to a program or facility. For example, if an individual were to attend a particular program on ten separate occasions this would be counted as ten visits. This is an industry term and is used for reporting internally to the City of Mesa as well as external agencies that Arts and Culture is affiliated with.The three facilities represented by the dataset are the i.d.e.a. Museum, AzMNH (Arizona Museum of Natural History) and the MAC (Mesa Arts Center) Fiscal year specifies fiscal year by the two year designation e.g. 2009/2010. The City of Mesa fiscal year for all departments is from July 1 - June 30.

Participation for IDEA museum captures the onsite and offsite engagement done through various programs offered by the museum to engage families in creating, experiencing art through imagination and creativity. The tracking of participation data helps us to continuously follow our mission and serve the community. Visit https://www.ideamuseum.org/ for more information about the museum. More detailed information about participation and sales is available in https://citydata.mesaaz.gov/Arts-Culture/Arts-Culture-IDEA-Point-of-Sale/j6sf-wemi (IDEA Point of Sale) and https://citydata.mesaaz.gov/Arts-Culture/Arts-Culture-IDEA-Non-Point-of-Sale/hhgz-d3zt (IDEA Non Point of Sale).

Additional museum engagements otherwise not counted through our admissions system. These engagements include grant funded programs that are free to the public, outreach programs, members, volunteers and participation in multiple day programs such as camps

Total number of participants in Cultural Programming at the AZMNH. This dataset is an aggregation of data collected from 2 different systems "Birthday Parties" Point of Sales and Audience View ticketing system, as well as Additional Engagements as tracked by staff.

Total number of participants

Describes total number of participants in Cultural Programming Birthday Parties at the Arizona Museum of Natural History. The museum books two birthday parties on the weekends, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Discount rate for members. For more information, please visit: https://www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org/plan-a-visit/birthday-party-rentals

Budget Book page for the department.

Describes total number of participants in Cultural Programming Special Events and Programs at the Arizona Museum of Natural History and Mesa Grande Cultural Park. Special events and programs include: Mesa K Ready, Early Learning Network, Homeschool Science Fair, Dino Egg Hunt, Summer Camps, I Love Science Day, Pottery Workshop, Sensory Gentle Day, Museum Discovery Day, Lectures, Storytelling, and Explore More school programs. For upcoming events, please visit: https://www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org

Describes total number of participants at the AzMNH and Mesa Grande Cultural Park generated by the Point-of-Sale system (AudienceView) and checked-in by Visitor Services. It includes on-site admissions of visitors at various price levels, member participation, group field trips, discount programs, and programming. For additional information, please visit: https://www.arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org

Information about participation at the Mesa i.d.e.a. museum generated by the Point of Sale system and includes on-site admission of visitors at various price level, member participation. Point of sale refers to transactions that are handled in Audience view at the front desk of the Museum. Visit https://www.ideamuseum.org/ for more information about the museum. Additional museum participation information is available in https://citydata.mesaaz.gov/Arts-Culture/Arts-Culture-IDEA-Non-Point-of-Sale/hhgz-d3zt and total participation information is at https://citydata.mesaaz.gov/Arts-Culture/Arts-Culture-IDEA-Monthly-Participation/kaam-svck.