Kolb Studio - located in the Village Historic District, at the Bright Angel trailhead. Open daily year-round, current hours are 8am to 7pm. After May 1 open daily from 8am to 8pm. Once the home and business of the Kolb brothers, pioneering photographers at Grand Canyon, this building has been restored. The bookstore and auditorium are open to the public.
Art exhibits are on display in the auditorium, admission is free.
It is a national competition created by the National Academy of the Arts in cooperation with the National Park Foundation. Each of the thousand of paintings entered in this annual competition depicts one of over three hundred national parks and monuments as its theme. Of the entries, one hundred are selected to tour the United States. This exhibition has become one of the outstanding displays of American representational paintings in the country. Yavapai Observation Station - located 5 miles north of the park's south entrance.