Stories
How Utah's museums came to be: who started them, what is inside, and why it ended up where it is. Each one is written from the museum's own pages and lists them at the bottom.
The Lehi museum with the world's only known Tanycolagreus
Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point has 60 complete dinosaur skeletons, the newest chapter of Jurassic Hall, and a Barosaurus being unearthed.
Hill Aerospace Museum: from a WWII warehouse to three galleries
The museum opened in a World War II warehouse and now has more than 70 aircraft, a C-130 fuselage classroom and an SR-71 Blackbird.
Golden Spike: where the two railroads met at Promontory Summit
Replica locomotives, a marked last-spike site and a 15-mile segment of the original railroad sit at the northern end of the Great Salt Lake.
From three rooms in the Park Building to more than 20 galleries
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts began as a small gallery of local paintings on the University of Utah campus and now holds over 22,000 objects.
From Artillery Range to Living History Village
The land under This Is The Place Heritage Park was once a firing range for Fort Douglas, and the changes since then run to a rebuilt store and a relocated cabin.
A Wall of 1,500 Dinosaur Bones Near Jensen
The Quarry Exhibit Hall shows a wall of about 1,500 Late Jurassic bones, with eight species of dinosaur still in the rock.
A ladder into a 1,000-year-old kiva in Blanding
Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum pairs an Ancestral Pueblo village site with a large pottery collection and a kiva you enter by ladder.
Photos, left to right and top to bottom: Etemenanki3, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Xboxtravis7992, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Beneathtimp, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; NPS Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA 7722482), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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