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Places

Museums

Interpretive centers, regional history collections, and the institutions that hold the canyon corridor's record.

  • Hill Aerospace Museum — Hill AFB, UT (history)
    The Air Force's aerospace collection at Hill AFB — 70+ aircraft from biplanes to the SR-71, free admission, no base access required.
  • John Wesley Powell River History Museum — Green River, UT (river history)
    The only museum built around the story of the Colorado and Green Rivers — Powell's expeditions, the River Runners Hall of Fame, and a hundred years of boats and oars.
  • Museum of Illusions Salt Lake City — Salt Lake City, UT (interpretive center)
    Hands-on optical-illusion and perception museum at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City — over 50 interactive exhibits, family-oriented, deliberately Instagrammable.
  • Museum of Natural Curiosity — Lehi, UT (interpretive center)
    Forty-five-thousand-square-foot family science museum at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi — over 400 hands-on exhibits across four indoor galleries and a three-acre garden gallery.
  • Natural History Museum of Utah — Salt Lake City, UT (natural history)
    Utah's official natural history collection in the copper-clad Rio Tinto Center above the U of U — paleontology, archaeology, and the deep story of the Colorado Plateau.
  • Southern Utah Museum of Art — Cedar City, UT (art)
    Free contemporary art museum on the SUU campus in Cedar City — the cultural anchor of southwest Utah's national park gateway.
  • Utah Museum of Contemporary Art — Salt Lake City, UT (art)
    Downtown Salt Lake City's contemporary art museum — six galleries, pay-what-you-can admission, and a 90-year lineage from the Art Barn through the Salt Lake Art Center to UMOCA.
  • Utah Museum of Fine Arts — Salt Lake City, UT (art)
    Utah's official fine-art museum on the University of Utah campus — 20,000 objects spanning 5,000 years, including significant Native American and Colorado Plateau collections.