Several museums include Sharlot Hall Museum , the Bead Museum , the Smoki Museum and the Phippen Museum-Art of the American West . Sharlot Hall Museum has the first territorial governor's residence built in 1864.
Galleries offer contemporary, Western and Indian artworks.
The Smoki Museum offers an extensive collection of Indian artifacts and artwork, along with a research archive. The Phippen Museum of Western Art , named for a Prescott-area painter and sculpter, resembles a rustic ranch house from the area's territorial period. It contains Phippen's own works in addition to an outstanding collection of historic art and artifacts by other Western artists. The downtown historic area has scores of antique stores, specialty shops, restaurants and ice cream and soda fountains. Prescott has more than 70 houses of worship.