Art museums in Utah
University museums, a few small-town galleries that punch well above their size, and one museum of puppets.
25 museums on this list, checked against their own websites in October 2026.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
The University of Utah's art museum, with its permanent collection galleries on campus and a run of changing shows.
Topaz Museum
The story of the World War II camp near Delta where Japanese Americans were held, told with artifacts, oral histories and about 150 original artworks.
By region
Salt Lake County 6
- Old Dome Meeting Hall MuseumRiverton HistoryRiverton built this hall in 2015 as a copy of the domed Old Dome Church from the early 1900s, and it now holds displays on the town's heritage alongside rotating art exhibits. It doubles as a civic meeting and event space, so viewing hours are early in the week.
- Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk ArtSalt Lake City Art FreeThe state's folk art collection lives in an old farmhouse in the middle of Liberty Park, with more than 450 pieces made by Utah's many communities. Galleries cover Native American ancestral and contemporary work, ceramics and occupational crafts, and the current show, Once Upon a Tree, looks at wood and paper and runs through January 9, 2027. It pairs well with a park walk.
- Church History MuseumSalt Lake City History FreeThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints runs this free museum on West Temple, telling the faith's history through art and artifacts. The main floor exhibit, The Heavens Are Opened, covers early Church history with film, documents and artifacts, and the second floor holds a children's exhibit and temporary exhibits. Every three years the museum hosts and exhibits a theme-based art competition for Latter-day Saint artists from around the world.
- Gilgal Sculpture GardenSalt Lake City Art FreeThomas Battersby Child Jr. made this garden in the mid twentieth century, tucked in the middle of a Salt Lake City block behind houses and businesses, and it is now a city park. It holds 12 of his original sculptures, including the Sphinx and Elijah's Cave, plus more than 70 stones engraved with scripture, poems and literary texts. Admission is free, and walking tour brochures are on site.
- Utah Museum of Fine ArtsSalt Lake City ArtThe University of Utah's art museum, in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building on campus. Current shows include For the Future, a look at 25 years of the museum's collecting, and Onishi Yasuaki's Stone on Boundary, with the salt 18 series bringing Amor Munoz in late October.
- West Valley Cultural Celebration CenterWest Valley City Art FreeThe Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City runs free galleries, with the Pilar Pobil Celebration Gallery as its main space. The Bridge, Plaza and Crescent galleries show local artists, traveling exhibits and educational displays, and most of the work there is for sale. Through October 14 it has the Utah Women Artists Exhibition 2026 and Plein Air Riverfest, paintings made at the 2026 Get to the River Festival.
Davis, Weber and Morgan 4
- Bountiful Davis Art CenterBountiful Art FreeA community art center on Bountiful's Main Street with rotating shows in its Main, Front and Annex galleries, free to visit. It hosts juried exhibitions such as the Statewide Emerging Artists' Annual and runs paid classes in pottery, watercolor and figure drawing.
- Kaysville Fruit Heights Museum of History & ArtKaysville HistoryA small community museum in the north foyer of Kaysville's city building that rotates local history and art shows instead of keeping permanent displays. Recent shows have covered the indigenous presence in early Davis County and a set of 28 paintings first commissioned for the 1976 national bicentennial. It also keeps oral histories, historic markers and a walking tour of town, so a quick stop can turn into an afternoon.
- Eccles Community Art CenterOgden Art FreeA nonprofit art center in the historic home of David and Bertha Eccles in Ogden's Jefferson District, with free admission to its galleries.
- Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw GalleryOgden Art FreeWeber State University's art gallery sits inside the Ethel Wattis Kimball Visual Arts Center on the Ogden campus and runs a rotating lineup of exhibitions across many media. It closes in summer and over university breaks, so plan around the school calendar.
Utah County 3
- UVU Museum of ArtOrem Art FreeUtah Valley University's art museum, now in the Lakemount building on 1800 South in Orem, with free admission and free parking in the lot above the building. Through November 21, 2026 it shows the Faculty Art Exhibition, with work by 44 UVU art and design faculty, and through January 9, 2027 a student-curated show of abstract work from the permanent collection.
- BYU Museum of ArtProvo Art FreeIts shows mix American art and sacred art from the collection with visiting exhibitions; this fall that includes Gordon Parks photographs and a show on Lorenzo Ghiberti's Baptistery Doors. There is also a sculpture garden.
- Springville Museum of ArtSpringville Art FreeA free art museum whose collection began in 1903, when artists Cyrus Dallin and John Hafen donated Paul Revere and Mountain Stream. It now holds more than 2,700 works, over 2,000 of them Utah art from pioneer times to today, plus what it calls the largest public collection of twentieth-century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States. The building was dedicated in 1937, and the Sam and Diane Stewart Sculpture Garden was dedicated in 2009.
Park City and Heber 1
Cache and Box Elder 3
- Brigham City Museum of Art & HistoryBrigham City Art FreeBrigham City's own museum, started in 1970, with a collection of more than 12,000 items covering art, historical artifacts, ephemera, natural history specimens and oral histories. A permanent exhibition covers the town's history, and five to six temporary history and fine art shows rotate through each year; the Development photography competition exhibition runs October 3 to December 4, 2026. Admission is free.
- World of Puppetry MuseumBrigham City Art FreeA puppet museum inside the Northern Utah Center for the Arts, which rebranded from the Fine Arts Center. Opened in 2000, it holds over 150 puppets from 16 countries, from Indonesian shadow and rod puppets and Burmese and Indian marionettes to a 1940-50 Howdy Doody set, Kermit and Lamb Chop. Kids can pull marionette strings, perform at a shadow stage and make a puppet craft.
- Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (USU)Logan Art FreeUtah State University's art museum holds over 5,000 works, weighted toward 20th and 21st century American art and art of the American West. Its ceramics collection, which started with more than 400 vessels Nora Eccles Harrison gave along with the building, now tops 1,200 pieces.
Central Utah 3
- Topaz MuseumDelta HistoryTells the story of Topaz, the World War II camp 16 miles northwest of Delta where Japanese Americans were held from September 1942 to October 1945. The exhibit starts with the racist laws aimed at early Japanese immigrants and follows the mass incarceration and its aftermath, using hundreds of artifacts, photographs and oral histories plus about 150 original artworks. The museum also lays out an 18-stop driving or biking tour.
- Snow College Art GalleryEphraim History FreeSnow College's gallery sits inside the Humanities Building on the Ephraim campus and keeps the college's permanent collection, including the Lund-Wassmer Collection. Each year it shows an Artists in Residence/Works in Progress show and a juried student exhibition, along with a bi-annual faculty show and national solo and group shows.
- Fairview Museum of History and ArtFairview Art FreeA free museum campus in Fairview whose centerpiece is Spirit, a Columbian mammoth skeleton about 15,000 years old dug up in 1988 at Huntington Reservoir, 18 miles east of town. The Heritage Building, Fairview's 1900 elementary school, later served as sculptor Avard Fairbanks's workshop and still holds many of his original plasters, works by woodcarver Lindon Graham and hundreds of pioneer artifacts. The Horizon Building, finished in 1995, adds the Theodore Milton Wassmer art collection, Clark Bronson's wildlife sculpture and painting, and natural history and Native American exhibits.
Southern Utah 4
- Southern Utah Museum of ArtCedar City Art FreeSouthern Utah University's art museum, in a Brooks + Scarpa building designed after the region's slot canyons. The collection leans on Western landscape painters like Maynard Dixon, Edith Hamlin and Jimmie F. Jones, and has a deep print collection with works by Chagall, Whistler and Kathe Kollwitz. Entry is free, so it's an easy stop on a drive to the parks.
- Maynard Dixon Legacy Museum (Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts)Mount Carmel ArtThe painter Maynard Dixon and his wife, the artist Edith Hamlin, lived and worked on this property along old Highway 89, and the Thunderbird Foundation has restored their home and studio. You can walk the grounds yourself or book a docent tour, then stop in the gallery. The foundation is upfront that this is a living history site and most paintings on view are reproductions, so come for the place itself and the story of how it was saved.
- St. George Museum of ArtSt. George Art FreeThe city's art museum collects art and artifacts from Utah and the West and rotates shows from its permanent collection alongside current artists. Recent exhibitions include Ben Steele's 45th State of Mind, which runs art history and pop culture through a Utah lens, and Aziza Abdieva's Fear Alchemy, built from Utah landscapes. Tours can be requested ahead.
- Utah Tech University Sears Art MuseumSt. George History FreeUtah Tech University's art museum mounts about six exhibitions a year and holds a sizable permanent collection owned by the school. Recent shows include work by Amiah Dominguez and Colleen Gianatiempo's Material Poetics in the foyer. Every Presidents Day weekend it hosts the Sears Invitational, a show and sale of roughly 200 paintings by about 150 artists.
Eastern Utah 1
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Photos, left to right and top to bottom: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; mliu92 from San Mateo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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