Beaver is the birthplace of two very famous individuals of the past, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television and Butch Cassidy, the notorious western outlaw.
Northern Utah's Natural History Museum
This is the place to see the best trilobite collection west of the Mississippi. Exhibits include fossils, minerals, and Box Elder County's mining history.
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Want to drive to some best places to see dinosaur bones and learn about them? The Dinosaur Diamond Scenic Byway is just the drive for you. Encompassing parts of eastern Utah and part of Colorado, th...
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The Millstream Classic Car Museum is collection of about 50 restored cars and about 50 additional unrestored cars. The museum includes vehicles dating from a 1912 Model T Ford to vehicles from the 60'...
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Newly opened in 2003 by West Valley City, the Utah Cultural Celebration Center is a unique facility. It is the only locally-driven arts and cultural complex in the Salt Lake Valley, and perhaps the on...
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Discover an archeological dig in downtown Salt Lake City! Visit the Social Hall Heritage Museum to find out what the early settlers of Salt Lake did for a good time.
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The road to California carried over 250,000 gold-seekers & farmers to the gold fields & rich farmlands of California during the 1840's and 1850's – the greatest mass migration in American history. M...
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As of Fall 2009, Iron Mission State Park Museum has officially adopted a new name ... Frontier Homestead State Park Museum.
Frontier Homestead State Park Museum tells the story of development in Iron...
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Visit Edge of the Cedars Pueblo, a village inhabited by the ancestors of contemporary Puebloan peoples from AD 825 to 1125, and climb down a ladder to enter the 1,000-year-old kiva. View the largest c...
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Stroll along the Rim Walk, towering 2,000 feet directly above the Colorado River. The mesa that is Dead Horse Point provides breathtaking views of the canyon country of southeastern Utah and the pinna...
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This ancient village in the heart of Utah's canyon country was one of the largest Ancestral Puebloan communities west of the Colorado River. Now called the Coombs Site, it is believed to have been occ...
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1917 railroad caboose, artifacts and pictures of early mining, railroad equipment, WPA paintings, a mining company store & railroad office, schoolroom, beauty shop, blacksmith shop, doctor & dentist o...
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Western and Indian artifacts; turn-of-the century displays, including blacksmith shop, drug store, barber shop, country store, machinery shop, etc.; art exhibits, school programs and tours. Outdoor ex...
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Located on site related to the era of U.S. Cavalry and Old Fort Duchesne; Books and research papers on Indian and early Western American history; reading room; lectures; Indian-produced artwork; India...
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So much time is revealed here, even more geologic time than in the Grand Canyon. Within an 80-mile radius of Vernal, evidence of the entire Earth's history is visible. At its center is the Utah Field ...
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Features home sites typical of the area's historic cultures: a Navajo hogan (ho'gone), Ute tepee, small Hispanic hacienda, and pioneer log cabin.
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Features a "Paleontology Room" with life-size dinosaurs from Emery County which rotate on a central platform; exhibits also include Indian culture of the San Rafael; featured are the famous "Sitterud ...
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River Runner's Hall of Fame commemorating men and women who have matched their wits against the rivers; includes replicas of boats used to explore the west's waterways
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Displays of artifacts from the Indian cultures over the past 1,000 years. It houses one of the best privately held collections of arrowheads, beads, pendants, and pottery of the Anasazi culture.
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A fully stocked mercantile, a lawyer's office, schoolroom, and typical pioneer home are authentically recreated. Includes tools of farmers, ranchers, and coal miners who helped settle Castle County an...
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Exhibits of fossil bones, footprints and skin of dinosaurs. Exhibits also depict those animals which lived before dinosaurs and a tree standing upright for the first time in 275 million years, and a "...
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Exhibits of archaeology, geology, and local history including history of uranium mining in southern Utah. Main activity are visitors from school children and tourists.
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Visitor Center with dinosaur exhibits. Dinosaur bones in the ground protected by metal buildings: many Allosaurs, Utahs state dinosaur; Guided walks to dinosaur trackway.
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Exhibits featuring dinosaurs and ancient Native American artifacts; traveling exhibit gallery, classroom and exploration area; federal repository and dinosaur bone preparation lab and storage.
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Original and replica buildings of the first settlement at Bluff; covered wagons and a monument honoring the Hole-in-the-Rock pioneers
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Windmills that are restored and operating and 350 other items from American farms dating to 1800. Conducted personal tours with appointment.
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We let you experience, first hand, the sights, sounds, smell and feel of being in the cockpit of some of the most exciting and interesting aircraft that have flown Southern Utah's skies.
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Wildlife museum with a mile of pathway through a mountainous diorama viewing over 200 species of wildlife from around the world depicted in their natyural habitat. An interactive childrens room, inse...
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Animals, Indian artifacts and desert habitat of the West. Exhibits more than 400 animals from North America in their natural habitat; displays exotic game from Africa, India and Europe. rare birds of ...
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Visit the home of Jacob Hamblin, the man who was called "Friend of the Indians." See what life was like for Jacob and his large family in a frontier town. Walk among the fruit trees in the nearby orch...
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Tells the story of development in Iron County. A diorama, based on descriptions of the original iron foundry, is on display. Displays also include a collection of horse-drawn vehicles used from 1870 t...
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Butch Cassidy, was he a criminal or a folk hero. Hard to tell when you travel through southern Utah. He grew up in this small cabin, just south of Circleville, between Richfield and Panquitch on Highw...
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This ancient Indian village was one of the largest Anasazi communities west of the Colorado River. The village remains largely unexcavated, but many artifacts have been uncovered and are on display in...
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Over 8,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at a camp known as Topaz near Delta. Displays of photographs, artifacts and interpretive text are used to detail the hardships and trials of the interne...
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Located in historic building (1899 Eureka City Hall); library of Eureka Reporter newspapers from 1902 to 1942 available for use on premises; history room; mining artifacts; mineral display; self-guide...
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Themed gardens backdropped by the largest manmade waterfall in the Western Hemisphere; over 250,000 tulips in the spring and 1,000+ rose bushes in the summer, water lilies, a replica of Monet's famed ...
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Be a Farmer for a Day in the Fox Family Farms Animal Park while you help groom the animals, milk the cows, and gather the eggs. Get up close to the cows, pigs, horses, goats and other farm animals.
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Territorial Statehouse in Fillmore is Utah's oldest existing governmental building. In anticipation of Utah's statehood, early pioneer Brigham Young directed construction of the building as the state'...
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Utah's first museum for the visual arts, this beautiful Spanish Style building would be worth visiting even if there were no art. Dedicated as a "Sanctuary of Beauty and a Temple of Contemplation" by ...
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In the heart of the community of Santaquin, an old schoolhouse built in 1903 has been converted into a museum. The exhibits depict the early pioneer settling of Santaquin, continuing on to the present...
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Victorian room with furnishings; City room with school, blacksmith shop, store and old tabernacle relics; tours for children and adults; exhibits change every month in the Historical and Art Rooms.
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Provides free tours and video of the establishment of Orem, including farming, settlement of schools and churches, a village blacksmith shop, pioneer and Indian artifacts. City government and U.S. Ste...
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Program of changing student-curated anthropological exhibitions, guided tours; instruction in museum practice; research; education programs.
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Over one hundred flying reptile displays, and over 60 dinosaur skeletal displays. Forty interactive displays, dioramas, world's only Baby Mammoth display. An actual fossil lab. Giant IWERKS Screen The...
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Log cabin and relic home. The log cabin was the home of Emma Somerville McConkie and her four children, Oscar, George, William and Emma.
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Systematic research collections in all areas of life science; educational exhibits depicting various habitats, biomes and specific animal groups. Annual, biannual and periodic changes in the exhibits ...
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The Roswell D. Bird pioneer home was built around 1895 and contains historical photographs, artifacts and a library of histories and journals.
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Collection of pioneer artifacts displayed on three floors of beautifully restored Juab County Courthouse. Emphasis on local and County artifacts.
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Pioneer exhibits, undersea life from Puerto Rico & Pacific; Indian artifacts; minerals; birds and eggs; fossils; Vietnam and South Sea Islands material.
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Exhibits include: restored old school, Victorian home, history of writing, World War memorabilia, blacksmith shop, historical and art displays.
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Local and regional history programs 4-6 times a year; open-house and special exhibits Memorial Day and Christmas holiday season; special exhibits; museum also includes Topaz Internment Building.
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Fremont Indian State Park, located off of Exit 17 on Hwy. 70 in central Utah, has 697 rock art panels, a museum housing Utah's largest Fremont site excavation artifact collection, an award-winning fam...
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Historic, domestic and agricultural artifacts, art (sculpture and painting), extensive Avard Fairbank sculpture collection, Theodore Milton Wassmer Collection, Kid's Gallery, National Shrine to Love a...
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Exhibits of fossils from most geologic periods; research collections of dinosaurs and other vertebrates, especially from Jurassic period. Education programs, guided tours.
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Features replicas of famous historic print shops and printing presses including a recreation of the world's oldest printing shop. Visitors watch as ink is made, type is cast and a page of the Gutenber...
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Built as a travelers way station and refuge from the Indian for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, miners, Indian or Spanish traders, mail carriers, and others; historic house...
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A completely furnished log cabin is located inside museum; museum also includes many pioneer relics; tours for children and adults.
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Believing Mormons were rebelling against the laws of the United States, President James Buchanan dispatched 3,500 troops, nearly one-third of the entire U.S. Army, to suppress the rumored rebellion in...
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Programs include permanent and temporary exhibitions, lecture series, concerts, family week, docent programs, and education programs for undergraduate and graduate students.
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Photographs of Alpine's early pioneers; pioneer furniture and over 400 artifacts; pioneer histories; guided tours; audio and video tape of Alpine's past and her builders; enjoy the Legacy of Alpine-"P...
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Exhibits explore how humans have influenced and been influenced by Zion: Ancestral Pueblo, Paiute, Spanish Padres, American fur traders, Morman settlers, surveyers and explorers.
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Victorian and early pioneer style furnishings - some are original. Floors, woodwork, walls and doors have been restored; daily tours by LDS missionary couples as part of St. George Temple Visitors' Ce...
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A well maintained and well locked historical building, that at one point in time served as a school and church. It is the only remaining public building in this quaint little town.
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The home and studio of Utah painter Maynard Dixon. Home to the annual Maynard Dixon Country Invitational Art Exhibition showcasing the work of the country's finest contemporary artists each summer
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Rotating art exhibits of all media. Permanent history displays, including historic preservation and downtown revitalization; historic research and publications; children's hands-on exhibits; and quilt...
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The museum features changing exhibitions (every 4-8 weeks) of art and history. The museum's permanent exhibition features Brigham City History from pre-settlement to the present. Interactive activitie...
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Museum is home to a steam engine, 2 cabooses, dining car, and simulated mine. Museum provides numerous exhibits of the local mining, railroading, and smelting history and household and medical artifac...
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The exhibits feature old mines, current mines, and reclamation practices. Sponsored by Barrick Gold Mines Inc. and Kennecott Utah Copper.
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This renovated mill was constructed by early Mormon Pioneers and is on the National Historic Register. Volunteers have restored the mill and added a log cabin, blacksmith shop, country store, sheep ca...
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This great museum is filled with hands-on, kid-friendly exhibits. It's a great place to come and learn about the History of South Jordan. Play in an old fashioned school-house, shop in the store, an...
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Displays model cars tracing the development of craftsmanship and history of the hobby. Educates hobbyists and presents the GSL International Model Car Championship.
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Historic building with two floors of displays, gift shop, and exhibition shed outside; Annual Old-Timers Day in April; Annual Anniversary Open House in October; slide shows for school children or larg...
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The historical exhibition informs and teaches; the Price Family Holocaust Memorial Garden inspires and provides space for contemplation
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The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change is a community based, participatory project that uses the major construction processes in downtown Salt Lake City as catalysts to animate the city.
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MUSEUM CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS Provids opportunities for people of all ages to learn about and explore the art and history of Utah
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The Leonardo is a contemporary Sci+Tech+Art museum, where today’s big ideas, questions, inventions and discoveries are connected in a whole new way.
It’s a museum, but not like any museum you’v...
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School tours, wagon rides, historic demonstrations; Country Store, birthday Parties; Art and Photo Galleries; Antique displays, Antique Farm machinery Building; Holiday and seasonal special events; ga...
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A diverse zoological collection of over 1,000 animals is displayed within a 42-acre park. Guests can enjoy the World of Flight bird show, Meet-A-Keeper program, docent programs and other educational o...
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A fascinating journey exploring the worlds of anthropology, biology, geology, paleontology, and ecology. The Museum offers many programs for schools, field trips and guided tours as well as teacher to...
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World art includes Greek antiquities, paintings by European Masters, American statuary and twentieth century prints. Exhibitions from the permanent collection and special traveling exhibitions. Guided...
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The park includes Old Deseret village, a living history museum that recreates a typical community between 1847-1869. Structures include adobe houses, the restored Brigham Young Forest Farmhouse, shops...
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Collection consists of works by Utah artists and is located in the public hallways on all floors of the North and South buildings. Tours are available on request.
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Guided tours; changing exhibits of contemporary art; art workshops; performing arts; films; educational programs and art classes for children and adults.
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150 acres of gardens and natural beauty; it has its own gift shop, miles of hiking/nature trails and a visitor Center--the focal point for diverse recreational, cultural and educational activities and...
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Extensive collection of pioneer artifacts. A two-story carriage house is also included. A historical library and pioneer history department for descendants. Resource for students and adults. Pre-arran...
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Permanent and temporary exhibits on the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tours for prescheduled groups, school outreach programs, films, puppet shows, costumed interpreters,...
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Life of the early Greek immigrants, their struggles, achievements, social life, and tragedies. Displays include a mining exhibit, photographs, movies, videos, costumes, dolls, old letters, manuscripts...
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Over 50 motorized, 3 horse drawn, and 9 hand cart fire apparatus; numerous displays; Memorial area; fire prevention programs; scouting programs; and Cub Scout Activity program.
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Experience, understand and appreciate the water environments; see water based plants and animals in a naturalistic setting. The rain Forest Van provides educational outreach.
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Housed in 1875 Quartermaster Victorian Infantry Barracks on Fort Douglas. Military exhibits displaying uniforms, weapons, equipment, armored vehicles, helicopters, military art and scale models depict...
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Science education in an informal, fun environment. Star/Science shows and Laser shows in dome-topped theater. Museum with interactive, hands-on exhibits. Classes, demonstrations, and special events. G...
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Discovery Gateway is a contemporary, interactive discovery center that inspires children of all ages to imagine, explore, and connect with their world. Bright and engaging hands-on exhibits, programs,...
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Exhibits feature contemporary Utah folk art (textiles, ranch-craft, Indian and ethnic crafts, etc.). Archives of books, photographs, and recordings are accessible by appointment. Free concert series h...
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Discover how Brigham Young and his family lived in the 1800s, during a free 30-minute tour of the Beehive House. Now a National Historic Landmark, this home has been beautifully restored with furnishi...
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CLOSED FOR RENOVATION UNTIL October 16. Park City?s mining and skiing history; original 1885 Territorial Jail with WWI ?wobblies? grafitti; docent tours; summer Main Street walking tours; research fil...
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Gallery space, studio space, gift shop; provides a complete center for the arts, especially the visual arts, provides gallery space for artists and educational displays, provides special events and pe...
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Exhibitions and educational programs celebrate the glories of winter sports in the Intermountain West - from silver miners sliding on shovels to the glories of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
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Exhibits reflect early pioneer, mining and transportation endeavors in middle Salt Lake Valley. Collection and photographs available on CD Rom.
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Artifacts and photographs representing history of mining, including current mining operations; 14 minute video on history of mine; Center provides educational opportunities for schools, scouts, etc. M...
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Elevated boardwalks and groomed interpretive trails guide visitors across wetlands and rivers to the Nature Center where educational and interpretive exhibits add to the visitor's knowledge and apprec...
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Exhibits represent Roy history (early kitchen, bedroom and living room); "Footprints Collection", coin collections, artwork, and early style clothing. Programs include Dutch oven dinner in June and Ro...
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Interactive exhibits and programs focusing on family literacy, children's literature and the arts. Programs include book-based art and theater activities, classes, workshops, and entertainment series.
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Public and school planetarium shows. Provide educational assistance to school teachers. Public star shows and telescopic observing sessions.
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Home of the Utah State Railroad Museum; John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Browning/Kimball Classic Cars; Wattis-Dumke Model Railroad Museum; Natural History Museum and Gallery at the Station.
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1.5 miles of quiet walking trails, field classes in natural sciences; community workshops and summer camps; 127-acre wildlife sanctuary; and wild bird rehabilitation program.
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Natural history exhibits: glaciation, sound waves and the human ear, spices and the exploration of the world, exploration of the Colorado, Farrell Collett Paintings of mammals of the West, Edward S. C...
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Lecture/slide presentation on the settling on northern Utah from mountain men to Utah Territorial settling; open house with refreshments honoring Pioneer Days Queen following July 24th Parade; off-sea...
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Contemporary art in all media by established and emerging regional and national artists, including historical and student exhibitions; also visiting artist lecture series.
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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. Authenti...
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Museum contains 98 prehistoric creatures in a realistic environment, including water moat, volcano, and special above and below ground exhibits. Educational programs include lectures, art work, etc.
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Exhibits large native and exotic birds, mammals and reptiles. Guided tours, lectures, and educational programs by prearranged appointment.
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Exhibits developed by undergraduate students in consultation with faculty; traveling exhibitions; lectures; tours for school groups and civic clubs.
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Nature education programs on and off site for students, including school programs, Stokes field expeditions, Dipper Day Camps, Natural Tales and Trails, and Volunteer Naturalist Program; on-site exhib...
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Exhibition hall and library tours by reservation; Christmas Open House; Opening Tea honoring pioneer mothers; 24th July Queen; quilt raffle, demonstrations of pioneer needle crafts, spinning and quilt...
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Guided tours and Daughters of Utah Pioneer meetings; some special programs about pioneer handcart company for scouts and young women.
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Historical exhibits of North Davis County; featured exhibits every six months; national traveling exhibits; art exhibits, community plays and performances during the summer in amphitheater.
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Teaches new ways of building homes and creating landscapes that promote energy efficiency, water conservation, universal design principles, healthy indoor environments, and the sustainable use of all ...
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The Utah Botanical Center raises awareness among all generations of how they can enrich their quality of life by preserving precious natural resources.
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Black light displays for mineral specimens; exhibits range from dinosaur bones and Egyptian artifacts to 19th century tools of the trade and the settling of Hyrum; elementary school tours; other tours...
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Exhibits over 80 military aircraft, missiles, and aerospace vehicles. The museum collection also includes ordnance, aerospace ground equipment, military vehicles, uniforms, and other historical artifa...
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Take a train ride on a 7 1/2 gauge rail or a 24 gauge rail. The collection has over 90 engines & cars. A 1920s replica of a freight station houses the snack bar, museum, and shop
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1907 Tithing Building for Davis County LDS Stake President. Bought by city around 1916 and used as City hall. Used also as a Library. Lions club leased it for 30 years. Museum extablished in 2004.
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Interpretive talks, slide programs, films and museum exhibits explain the significance of the nation's first transcontinental railroad. A bookstore is also located in the visitor center.
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Annual exhibitions; creative sources gift gallery; art classes (all ages); traveling exhibitions to Davis county schools; Summerfest International Arts and Folk Festival.
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