Kinishba Ruins and Fort Apache Museum - Fort Apache, Arizona - the history of ancient cultures is housed here

Kinishba Ruins and Fort Apache Museum can be found in Fort Apache, Arizona. The ruins are a pueblo archaeological site made up of six hundred rooms including cultural traits from the Anasazi and Mogollon cultures. The Zuni and Hopi cultures are thought to be ancestors of these cultures.

Adolph Bandelier an archaeologist was the first one to describe Kinishba during the first part of the 1880's. Byron Cummings along with a group of archaeology students from the University of Arkansas restored and excavated the ruins from 1931 until 1940. The hope was that the site be declared as a national monument.

The Fort Apache Heritage Foundation and the White Mountain Apache Tribe are the administration for the Kinishba Ruins and Fort Apache Museum. In 1964 the ruins were named as a National Historic Landmark. Visitors to the facility must have a pass to visit.

The Fort Apache Museum is open to visitors for both guided and self guided tours. The site has over two dozen buildings that date all the way back to the 1870's on the 228 acres. There is even an old military cemetery and a recreation of the Apache Village. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the facility directly.