Northern Museums in Utah

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)

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Utah Office of Museum Services
2 South 400 West
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
801-533-3247