Alpine
• Bountiful
• Brigham
City •
Kaysville
• Lehi
• Logan
• Ogden
• Park
City •
Provo
• BYU
• Salt
Lake •
U
of U •
Springville
• Tooele
Alpine
•
Alpine Art Center.
Masterminded
by two Utah sculptors,
Dennis Smith and
Steve Streadbeck,
this facility is
not just a museum,
but also a state-of-the-art
foundry offering
the unique opportunity
to see metal-cast
art works in process.
An outdoor sculpture
park surrounds the
art center. Interior
galleries display
sculpture, paintings
and watercolor works.
Classes in a variety
of art techniques
are being developed
for adults and children.
(801-763-7173)
Bountiful
•
Bountiful-Davis
Art Center.
Exhibitions; gift
gallery; art classes.
(801-292-0367).
Brigham
City
•
Brigham City
Museum-Gallery.
Permanent history
displays, including
historic preservation
and downtown revitalization.
Historic research
and publications.
Children's hands-on
exhibits. Quilt
exhibits. Rotating
art exhibits with
all media, including
electronic art.
Kaysville
•
LeConte Stewart
Gallery of Art.
Gallery collection
represents the various
styles of this popular
Utah artist. (801-544-2826)
Lehi
•
John Hutchings
Museum of Natural
History.
Pioneer exhibits,
undersea life from
Puerto Rico and
Pacific; Indian
artifacts; minerals;
birds and eggs;
fossils; Viet Nam
and South Sea Islands
memorabilia. (801-768-7180)
Logan
•
The AVA Art Center
(435-753-2970) and
the Nora
Eccles Harrison
Museum of Art
(435-797-0163) have
permanent and traveling
exhibits year-round.
Located at Utah
State University.
Ogden
•
Eccles Community
Art Center.
Features
monthly exhibitions
guided by well-trained
docents. (801-392-6935)
•
Fort Bueneventura
State Park.
Fort Bueneventura
brings back one
of the most fascinating
periods in Western
American folklore,
the Mountain Man
era. The Fort has
been recreated on
the original site,
and guides in period
dress interpret
the fort as well
as the historical
lifestyle of the
Mountain Men and
the Indians who
inhabited the area.
Authentic artifacts
are also displayed.
(801-621-4808)
•
Hill Aerospace
Museum.
It has one of the
largest collections
of vintage aircraft
assembled anywhere
in the United States.
Guided tours combine
facts with engaging
stories of planes
and the pilots who
flew them. (801-777-6868)
•
Union Station
houses a railroad
museum, vintage
car collection,
gem and mineral
exhibit and other
noteworthy displays.
It also offers a
visitor information
center and seasonal
events and exhibits.
(801-629-8444)
Park
City
•
Kimball Art Center
provides a complete
center for the visual
arts with gallery
and studio space.
Traveling exhibits
are a regular feature,
as are art and craft
workshops. Park
City has many other
art galleries for
browsing. (435-649-8882)
•
Among
other reminders
of the town's rowdy
silver mining past,
the Park
City Museum,
has a re-created
Territorial Jail,
yearly exchanging
exhibits, and summer
walking tours led
by costumed guides.
(435-645-5135)
Provo
•
McCurdy Historical
Doll Museum.
This museum is housed
in a carriage house
built in 1984 and
subsequently restored.
Over 3,000 dolls
are on display.
Special displays
are held monthly
with coordinated
storytelling, puppet
shows and tea parties.
(801-377-9935)
Brigham
Young University
/ Provo
•
Museum of Art.
Family interactive
center, print study
room, theater, art
study center; 75-seat
restaurant, bookstore
and permanent and
temporary exhibits
of paintings and
sculpture. (801-378-8256)
•
Earth Science
Museum Guided
tours. Exhibits
of fossils from
most geologic periods
and research collections
of dinosaurs and
other vertebrates,
especially from
the Jurassic period.
(801-378-3680)
•
Monte L. Bean
Life Science Museum
Preserved and mounted
examples of animals,
insects, plants
and fish. Exhibits
based on the life
cycles of all species,
education programs
and children's hands-on
Discovery Area.
(801-378-5051)
•
Museum of Peoples
and Cultures.
Guided tours. Permanent
and temporary exhibits
tracking the anthropology
of world cultures.
(801-378-6112)
Salt
Lake City
•
Chase Home Museum
of Utah Folk Art.
Exhibits feature
contemporary Utah
folk art (textiles,
ranch-craft, Indian
and ethnic crafts,
etc.) Free concert
series held annually
on Monday evenings
during August. (801-533-5760)
•
Classic Cars
International Auto
Museum
A collection of
a hundred antique,
classic, and special
interest autos are
on display, including
Pierce Arrows, a
Stutz Bearcat, and
a 1906 Cadillac
"Tulip"
roadster. Vehicles
from 1903 to 1970
represented. (801-322-5186)
•
Finch Lane Gallery
/ Art Barn.
Visual, performing
and literary programs,
generally free to
the public. (801-596-5000
•
Fort Douglas
Military Museum.
The museum is housed
in the 1875 Quartermaster
Victorian Infantry
Barracks Building
located at Fort
Douglas which was
founded in 1862
by California Volunteers
to protect the Overland
mail & Telegraph
lines; 1,500-volume
library of military
history of Utah
and Fort Douglas,
reading room, two
cemeteries, guided
tours, permanent
and temporary exhibitions.
(801-588-5188)
•
Hellenic Cultural
Museum.
The museum reflects
the life of the
early Greek immigrants,
their struggles,
achievements, social
life, and tragedies.
Displays include
a mining exhibit,
photographs, costumes,
dolls, old letters,
manuscripts, early
mining tools, as
well as artifacts
from Greece. (801-328-9681)
•
Museum of Church
History and Art.
Auditorium reference
library, museum
store, films, puppet
shows, costumed
interpreters, auido-tours
(English and Spanish),
orientation film
- all related to
the history of the
Mormon Church, and
the works of Mormon
artists, past and
present. (801-240-2299)
•
Pioneer Memorial
Museum. Thousands
of artifacts from
the late 1800's,
from carriages,
tools, and clothing,
to dolls and toys.
The stairwells between
floors are filled
with hundreds of
paintings and photographs.
(801-538-1050)
•
Salt Lake Art
Center. Guided
tours. Changing
exhibits of contemporary
visual arts, art
workshops, performing
arts, films, educational
programs and art
classes for children
and adults. (801-328-4201
•
Utah State Historical
Society Museum.
Permanent exhibit
"Utah at the
Crossroads,"
special exhibits,
lectures, book and
gift shop. (801-533-3500)
University
of Utah / Salt Lake
City
•
Utah Museum of
Fine Arts.
Permanent collection
of approximately
15,000 art objects
representing world
cultures for the
past 5,000 years.
Musical concerts,
lectures, films,
gallery talks. (801-581-7049)
•
Utah Museum of
Natural History.
Paleontology exhibits
include mounted
skeletons of Allosaurus,
Stegosaurus, and
Camptosaurus from
the Cleveland-Lloyd
Dinosaur Quarry,
and a fossil mammal
exhibit. Extensive
collection of artifacts
from ancient tribal
cultures. Children's
hands-on exhibits
and art projects.
(801-581-4303)
Springville
•
Springville Museum
of Art.
This is Utah's first
and oldest museum
of art. Eleven exhibition
galleries, sculpture
garden, more than
25 separate exhibits
mounted annually,
and a permanent
collection of over
1,000 works by more
than 250 artists
from Utah and across
the nation. (801-489-2727)
Tooele
•
Restored Benson
Grist Mill.
The
mill mirrors the
past with a log
cabin, historic
buildings and equipment
and a working blacksmith
shop. This renovated
mill was constructed
by early Mormon
pioneers and is
listed on the National
Historic Register.
(435-882-7678)
•
Tooele County
Railroad Museum.
A
steam engine, dining
car, simulated mine,
and children's train.
Numerous exhibits
of the local mining,
railroading and
smelting history.
(435-882-2836)
For
additional information
on Utah Museums,
or a complete museum
listing contact:
Utah Office of Museum
Services
2 South 400 West
Salt Lake City,
UT 84101
801-533-3247
