Pioneer museums in Utah
Relic halls, cabins and county museums, most of them kept by the people whose families settled the town.
45 museums on this list, checked against their own websites in October 2026.
By region
Salt Lake County 2
- Pioneer Memorial MuseumSalt Lake City Pioneer FreeThe Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum just west of the Capitol packs four floors and a carriage house with the belongings of Utah's early settlers, from homemade tools and painted pine furniture to pianos and crystal hauled across the plains. The carriage house holds full-size vehicles, including a Conestoga wagon, a stagecoach and a 1902 fire engine. Admission is free, so it works as an easy weekday stop when you are near Capitol Hill.
- This Is The Place Heritage ParkSalt Lake City PioneerA state park of more than 450 acres where Heritage Village has settler homes and shops, costumed interpreters and hands-on pioneer activities, plus a replica train, a pony carousel and farm animals. The grounds also hold the This Is The Place Monument, dedicated in 1947, the Walk of Pioneer Faiths and the Pioneer Children's Memorial. Entering the park is free; the village experiences need a paid pass.
Davis, Weber and Morgan 7
- Centerville DUP Pioneer CabinCenterville PioneerA pioneer cabin kept by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in Centerville. It has no regular hours; the DUP directory says to call for an appointment, which makes it a planned stop rather than a drop-in.
- Charles Penrose Cabin DUP MuseumFarmington PioneerThe Charles W. Penrose cabin stands behind the LDS church on Farmington's Main Street and is cared for by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. It opens by appointment, and it is a two-block walk from the Farmington Historical Museum, so the two make an easy pair.
- Pioneer Village at LagoonFarmington PioneerA late 1800s frontier town inside Lagoon, built from historic structures that include an 1853 rock chapel moved from Coalville, a one-room schoolhouse, a print shop and a cobbler shop. The Carriage Hall holds turn-of-the-century wheeled vehicles, and a separate collection covers small arms from slingshots and crossbows to cannons. It started as a private collection in 1938 and moved to Lagoon in 1976, so a day at the park doubles as a walk through old Utah.
- Smout Log Cabin Daughters of Utah Pioneers MuseumMarriott-Slaterville Pioneer FreeMarriott-Slaterville City restored the cabin and the Susan Marriott DUP Camp filled it with artifacts. It opens by appointment and is free; the state directory lists the street number as 1507 while the DUP lists 1570.
- Weber County DUP and Miles Goodyear CabinOgden Pioneer FreeThe Weber County chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers runs this museum on Lincoln Avenue in Ogden, with the Miles Goodyear Cabin on the same site. It collects and displays things Utah pioneers made or used, and keeps histories of pioneers who arrived before 1900. It is open mid-May to mid-September and closed for the season now.
- Plain City Camp DUP & John Carver CabinPlain City Pioneer FreeA small Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum tied to the John Carver cabin in Plain City, kept by the local DUP camp. The DUP directory lists it as open by appointment with free admission, so call ahead before you drive out.
- Morgan County DUP MuseumMorgan Pioneer FreeCheck before you go
Utah County 4
- Alpine Historic DUP Relic Hall MuseumAlpine PioneerA pioneer relic hall on Alpine's Main Street. Alpine City says tours are by appointment only and gives a volunteer contact to set one up; the city page does not describe the collection or list a fee.
- Provo Pioneer VillageProvo Pioneer FreeThe village began in 1931, when David Loveless gave the John Turner home and his collection to the Sons of Utah Pioneers, and it now holds original buildings including the Turner Cabin, Haws Cabin and Loveless Home. It is laid out by use: homes and gardens, a granary and corn crib, a blacksmith shop and mercantile, and a school on the town square. Summer evenings bring fiddling, storytelling and demonstrations like candle dipping and spinning, and entry is free.
- Old Bell School DUP Museum and Log CabinPleasant Grove PioneerCheck before you go
- Provo Pioneer Museum (DUP)Provo PioneerCheck before you go
Park City and Heber 2
- Wasatch County Daughters of Utah Pioneers MuseumHeber City Pioneer FreeIt covers Wasatch County's early settlers and communities from 1830 to 1900. It holds the tool chest and tools of Alexander Fortie, architect and a builder of the Wasatch Stake Tabernacle, and a Native American display of original items and facsimiles. Kids get Seek and Find sheets to work through the cases.
- Henefer Camp DUP MuseumHenefer Pioneer FreeA small Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum on Henefer's Center Street, opened by appointment. Neither listing describes the collection, so call ahead to find out what is on display.
Cache and Box Elder 7
- Clarkston DUP Heritage MuseumClarkston Pioneer FreeFour rooms of pioneer artifacts kept by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers inside an 1871 tithing granary, the kind of building that once held a town's grain and produce. It opens on only a few days a year, so it suits a Memorial Day or Pioneer Day drive through Cache Valley, or a call ahead for an appointment.
- Lewiston DUP Wheeler Log Cabin and GranaryLewiston PioneerAn 1876 log cabin and granary where George Wheeler, Hannah Humphries and their ten children lived, with the family in the house until 1956. The DUP keeps pioneer-era family artifacts inside, and visits are arranged by appointment.
- Cache County DUP MuseumLogan Pioneer FreeThe Cache Pioneer Museum in downtown Logan collects and exhibits objects, pictures and histories of Cache Valley's early settlers. Behind the display cases it holds about 1,600 digitized pioneer histories, 300 digitized pioneer portraits and a scrapbook collection of clippings and obituaries from roughly 1930 to 1960, which makes it useful for anyone researching a Cache Valley family.
- Ole and Johanne Larsen Cabin (DUP)Newton PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers site in Newton named for Ole and Johanne Larsen. It opens by appointment only, arranged by phone at 435-760-6739; the DUP page gives nothing beyond that and the address.
- Sagwich Camp Paradise DUP MuseumParadise PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum in Paradise, run by the Sagwich Camp. The DUP directory lists it as open on Memorial Day and by appointment the rest of the year, with phone numbers to call ahead.
- Richmond DUP MuseumRichmond PioneerThis DUP museum is in Richmond's old Relief Society building, which the Relief Society built and used until 1906, when the DUP took it over; it was used as a school in 1916. Richmond's DUP Relic Hall at 26 South State is a separate building.
- Richmond Pioneer Relic Hall DUP MuseumRichmond PioneerBuilt as a stake president's and tithing office and owned by Richmond City since 1959, the hall's interior is kept by the local DUP camp and filled with pioneer relics.
Tooele and the West Desert 4
- Donner Reed Pioneer SUP MuseumGrantsville PioneerA small Sons of Utah Pioneers museum named for the Donner-Reed party, on Cooley Street in Grantsville. Grantsville City says it opens by appointment only, so call 435-884-3259 first. The state directory still lists an older address on East Main, so go by the city's address.
- Grantsville DUP Museum J. Reuben Clark FarmhouseGrantsville PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum listed by the state as the J. Reuben Clark Farmhouse, at the same Clark Street address as Clark Historic Farm. Grantsville City says it opens by appointment only, for groups of 10 or fewer, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The Donner Reed Museum is half a block east of the farm.
- Mount Nebo Camp DUP Relic CabinMona PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers relic cabin that stands in Mona's pioneer cemetery. It opens by appointment only, so call the listed number before you go. Neither the state nor the DUP listing describes what is inside.
- James L. Bevan Tooele Pioneer MuseumTooele Pioneer FreeA free pioneer museum in Tooele with a covered wagon, a buggy and other pioneer-era objects, plus Native American baskets, pottery and arrowheads. It also keeps historic books, maps, family histories and rare photos of early Tooele settlers and the growing city. Hours are short most of the year, so call 435-882-3168 first.
Central Utah 12
- Delta DUP Museum (McCullough Log Cabin)Delta Pioneer FreeA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum in the McCullough Log Cabin in Delta's city park. Admission is free, but it opens by appointment only, so call 435-864-2279 before planning a stop.
- Fanny Powell Cropper DUP MuseumDeseret PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers relic museum in the farm town of Deseret, a few miles southwest of Delta. It opens by appointment only; neither the state nor the DUP listing describes its collection.
- Fort Ephraim DUP Museum and CabinsEphraim PioneerThe DUP Fort Ephraim Camp looks after a group of pioneer buildings here: the Hansen House Museum, the Bailey Cabin, the Sorenson Cabin and Workshop, and the Jensen Granary.
- Fountain Green DUP Museum and Old Tithing HouseFountain Green PioneerA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum in Fountain Green, listed together with the town's old tithing house.
- Joseph Camp Clear Creek DUPJoseph Pioneer FreeA small Daughters of Utah Pioneers satellite museum in the Sevier County town of Joseph, run by the local Joseph Camp. DUP says its satellite museums hold pioneer artifacts from their own area; this one's listing gives no further detail on the collection.
- Sally Kanosh DUP MuseumKanosh Pioneer FreeThe 1870 Kanosh tithing office, a small Greek Revival building in the temple form, which the church handed to the local Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1952. It now serves as their meeting place and relic hall for local pioneer artifacts. Visits are by appointment and free.
- Sanpitch DUP Camp MuseumMoroni Pioneer FreeA small museum in Moroni run by the Sanpitch Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
- Redmond Camp Christine DUP CabinRedmond Pioneer FreeCamp Christine of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers keeps this cabin museum on Center Street in Redmond.
- Round Valley Camp DUP MuseumScipio Pioneer FreeA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum in tiny Scipio, just off I-15. It opens by appointment and admission is free; neither listing describes the collection.
- Spring City - Canal Creek DUP MuseumSpring City Pioneer FreeA Daughters of Utah Pioneers museum that the DUP directory lists as the Spring City/Canal Creek DUP Museum and Old Jail. It sits in Spring City's old city hall, built in 1893.
- Gifford House Store and Museum (Capitol Reef National Park)Torrey PioneerA 1908 farmhouse in Fruita built by Calvin Pendleton and home to the Gifford family from 1928 until Dewey and Nell Gifford sold it to the Park Service in 1969. It shows the plain style of early 1900s rural Utah farm homes, and its converted kitchen sells reproduction utensils and household tools, local quilts and soap, and locally baked fruit pies and homemade ice cream. The Pendleton Barn stands on the same homestead.
- Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Museum and Relic HomeMt. Pleasant PioneerCheck before you go
Southern Utah 3
- Hurricane Valley Pioneer Heritage Park MuseumHurricane Pioneer FreeThis museum tells how Hurricane got its name and how settlers spent thirteen years digging the Hurricane Canal by hand between 1893 and 1906 to water the valley. It also covers the town's first families, and the Bradshaw House, Hurricane's first permanent home, is open for tours nearby.
- Parowan Old Rock Church MuseumParowan PioneerParowan's settlers started this stone church in 1863 near the center of the original fort, and it took thirteen years to finish. Besides worship it held dances, plays, school and a basement amusement hall, and it housed Parowan High School for the 1917 to 1918 school year; church use ended in 1918. The Daughters of Utah Pioneers curate the museum inside.
- McQuarrie Memorial Pioneer MuseumSt. George Pioneer FreeThe Daughters of Utah Pioneers run this downtown St. George museum, which is packed with objects and stories from Washington County's early settlers, among them a leather sidesaddle that belonged to Mary Ann Woodward. Volunteers give guided tours if you ask, and on the third weekend of the month local historians talk about topics like the Old Spanish Trail. It is free and easy to fit around a day in town.
Eastern Utah 4
- Bluff Fort Historic SiteBluff Pioneer FreeA rebuilt pioneer fort in Bluff, run by the Hole in the Rock Foundation, telling the story of the 1880 settlers. The grounds hold fourteen family cabins, including the Barton cabin, the only original San Juan pioneer cabin left, plus a full-size replica of Bluff's first meetinghouse and a co-op replica with a theater showing films on the pioneers. Kids can climb into a covered wagon and pan for gold, and there is a Navajo hogan and a Ute tepee.
- John Jarvie Historic RanchDutch John PioneerScottish immigrant John Jarvie set up a store, post office and ferry at a Green River crossing in Browns Park in 1880, and the BLM keeps the place much as a remote frontier stop. A stone house serves as a one-room museum with a short film, next to the two-room dugout where John and Nellie Jarvie lived, a blacksmith shop and corral built from hand-hewn railroad ties, and a replica 1881 general store holding the original safe. It is a long drive on back roads, which is part of the point.
- Bryner Pioneer MuseumPrice Pioneer FreeA pioneer history museum in Price, run only by volunteers and paid for by donations. Its site does not list individual exhibits, but it has put up the flagpole that once stood at the Price Post Office, salvaged, repaired and installed at the museum. Entry is free, and volunteers will open it for tours outside regular hours if you call.
- Uintah County DUP MuseumVernal Pioneer FreeThe Daughters of Utah Pioneers keep this museum in Uintah County's first tithing office, a stone building from 1887 across the street from the Vernal temple. Inside are a Mormon handcart, the medical tools of Dr. Harvey Coe Hullinger, Fremont and Ute artifacts, early photographs of the basin and an organ from the Vogue Theatre.
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Photos, left to right and top to bottom: Beneathtimp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
