Meteor Crater

Winslow AZ

The approach to the museum and meteor is kind of funny…
The museum, designed by America’s architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
From 1963 through late 1970, Apollo astronauts trained at Meteor Crater because of its similarity to lunar craters. To give visitors a sense of Meteor Crater’s scale, the Museum placed a flag and an astronaut 6 foot tall cut-out on the floor of the crater. The flag is the same size as the flag placed by the first astronauts on the moon.
Meteor Crater is the best preserved and first proven large impact crater in the world.
Screenshots of a short film depicting the creation of the crater.
The Holsinger Meteorite is the largest discovered fragment of the meteor that created Meteor Crater.
The Barringer Space Museum is an education about meteors.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs for the museum.