Published by Paul Ivinskas
Saturday, October 17, 2026

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Museums and history

Art museums, dinosaur halls, pioneer relic halls, railroad and mining collections, and the places that keep local history across the state.

Forty museums we checked against their own websites, then a longer list drawn from the state's museum directory. Neither is a complete count of Utah's museums. Hours, admission and exhibitions change, so each entry links to the museum's own site or listing for the details.

 

Forty museums worth knowing

An unranked pick across subjects and regions. Each was checked against the operator's own page on Oct. 17, 2026, for its name, location and what it covers.

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Natural History Museum of Utah

    The University of Utah's natural history museum, with exhibitions, research collections and science programs.

    Science and natural history

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Utah Museum of Fine Arts

    The University of Utah's art museum, in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building on campus, with a permanent collection and changing exhibitions.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

    A contemporary art museum on West Temple in downtown Salt Lake City, with changing exhibitions and an artist-in-residence program.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Museum of Utah

    Utah's state history museum, part of the Utah Historical Society, in the North Capitol Building on the Capitol Complex. It covers Utah's history, culture and art.

    History · Art

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Church History Museum

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' museum on West Temple, with exhibits on the church's history and its members' art and culture.

    History · Art

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Salt Lake Art Museum

    A new public museum of Utah art and artists, past and present, in Salt Lake City.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Clark Planetarium

    Salt Lake County's planetarium in downtown Salt Lake City, with science exhibits, the Hansen Dome Theatre and an IMAX theater.

    Science and natural history

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Discovery Gateway Children's Museum

    A children's museum at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City, with hands-on exhibits, interactive activities and play spaces.

    Children's museums

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Utah Sports Hall of Fame Museum

    The Utah Sports Hall of Fame Foundation's museum of the state's sports history and honorees, in the City Creek mall downtown.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Salt Lake City · Salt Lake County

    Land Cruiser Heritage Museum

    A Salt Lake City museum devoted to the Toyota Land Cruiser, with vehicles from across the model's generations.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Lehi · Utah County

    Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life

    A dinosaur and prehistory museum at Thanksgiving Point, which says it has 60 complete dinosaur skeletons and more than 50 hands-on exhibits. It is one of the campus's separately ticketed venues.

    Science and natural history

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Lehi · Utah County

    Museum of Natural Curiosity

    A children's museum of hands-on science and nature exhibits, one of the separately ticketed venues at Thanksgiving Point.

    Children's museums · Science and natural history

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Lehi · Utah County

    Hutchings Museum

    A Lehi museum with exhibits on fossils, rocks and minerals, wildlife, Native American history, a pioneer cabin and Lehi history.

    History · Science and natural history · Archaeology and cultures

    Official site ↗

  • Provo · Utah County

    BYU Museum of Art

    Brigham Young University's art museum on the Provo campus, with changing exhibitions, a sculpture garden and a searchable collection.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Provo · Utah County

    Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

    BYU's life science museum, run by its College of Life Sciences, with exhibits and daily public programs.

    Science and natural history

    Official site ↗

  • Provo · Utah County

    BYU Museum of Paleontology

    Part of BYU's Department of Geological Sciences. It describes its dinosaur collection as one of the largest in the world.

    Science and natural history

    Official site ↗

  • Provo · Utah County

    Museum of Peoples and Cultures

    BYU's museum of world cultures, which says its collections hold more than a million artifacts.

    Archaeology and cultures

    Official site ↗

  • Orem · Utah County

    UVU Museum of Art at Lakemount

    Utah Valley University's art museum, with contemporary exhibitions and education programs.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Springville · Utah County

    Springville Museum of Art

    Springville's art museum, which dates its work to 1903, with a permanent collection and a focus on Utah artists.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Hill Air Force Base, Roy

    Hill Aerospace Museum

    Military aircraft and aviation artifacts beside Hill Air Force Base.

    History

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Ogden · Weber County

    Museums at Union Station

    Ogden's historic train station holds the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Browning Firearms Museum, the Browning-Kimball Car Museum and two art galleries.

    History · Art

    Official site ↗

  • Ogden · Weber County

    Treehouse Children's Museum

    Ogden's nonprofit children's museum, built around stories, imaginative play, literacy and the arts.

    Children's museums

    Official site ↗

  • Brigham City · Box Elder County

    Brigham City Museum

    A city museum of Northern Utah history and art, with changing exhibitions and art and photography competitions.

    Art · History

    Official site ↗

  • Logan · Cache County

    Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art

    Utah State University's museum of modern and contemporary art, on the Logan campus.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • Wellsville · Cache County

    American West Heritage Center

    A Wellsville living-history center and museum on the cultures that shaped Cache Valley from 1820 to 1920, with historic sites and seasonal farm events.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Park City · Summit County

    Park City Museum

    Park City's history museum, on Main Street in Old Town.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Utah Olympic Park, Park City · Summit County

    Alf Engen Ski Museum

    A museum of the history of skiing in the Intermountain region, at Utah Olympic Park.

    History

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Delta · Millard County

    Topaz Museum

    A Delta museum on the Topaz incarceration camp, where Japanese Americans were held during World War II. Its stated mission includes preserving the nearby camp site.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Fillmore · Millard County

    Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum

    Utah's oldest existing government building, finished in time for the Territorial Legislature's December 1855 session, now a state park museum. Restored pioneer cabins and an 1867 stone schoolhouse share the grounds.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Clear Creek Canyon, Sevier · Sevier County

    Fremont Indian State Park and Museum

    A state park and museum in Clear Creek Canyon.

    Archaeology and cultures

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Cedar City · Iron County

    Frontier Homestead State Park Museum

    Wagons, historic buildings and a replica blast furnace on Cedar City's pioneer and iron-making history.

    History

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Cedar City · Iron County

    Southern Utah Museum of Art

    Southern Utah University's art museum. It features regional landscape painters such as Maynard Dixon, along with a large collection of prints.

    Art

    Official site ↗

  • St. George · Washington County

    St. George Children's Museum

    A children's museum on Main Street in St. George with 15 hands-on exhibit spaces.

    Children's museums

    Official site ↗

  • Leeds · Washington County

    Silver Reef Museum

    A museum at Silver Reef, near Leeds, a silver-mining town of nearly 2,000 people in its day. A handful of its buildings survive.

    History

    Official site ↗

  • Boulder · Garfield County

    Anasazi State Park Museum

    A state park museum in Boulder at the Coombs Site, an Ancestral Puebloan village likely lived in from A.D. 1050 to 1200, with artifacts excavated there and a life-size replica dwelling.

    Archaeology and cultures

    Official site ↗

  • Vernal · Uintah County

    Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum

    A Vernal state park museum on the area's geology and dinosaurs.

    Science and natural history

    Our guide → · Official site ↗

  • Moab · Grand County

    Moab Museum

    A museum of the cultural and natural history of Moab and the greater Canyonlands region.

    History · Science and natural history

    Official site ↗

  • Price · Carbon County

    USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum

    Utah State University Eastern's museum in Price, with paleontology and archaeology collections.

    Science and natural history · Archaeology and cultures

    Official site ↗

  • Green River · Emery County

    John Wesley Powell River History Museum

    A museum on the Green River about the history of the Colorado River system, with exhibits on John Wesley Powell, local geology and paleontology, historic boats and the River Runners Hall of Fame.

    History · Science and natural history

    Official site ↗

  • Blanding · San Juan County

    Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum

    A Blanding state park museum at Edge of the Cedars Pueblo, a village lived in by ancestors of today's Pueblo peoples from A.D. 825 to 1225, with one of the Four Corners' largest exhibits of Ancestral Pueblo pottery.

    Archaeology and cultures

    Official site ↗

Utah museums and historic collections

Drawn from the Utah museums directory kept by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, as listed on Oct. 17, 2026. It includes historical societies, archives, gardens and zoos as well as museums. Names, cities and categories are the directory's; we have not visited or checked each one, and a listing doesn't mean a place is open to drop-in visitors. Some are run by volunteers or open by appointment, so check before you go.

Salt Lake County

Utah County

Northern Utah

Summit & Wasatch

Central Utah

Southern Utah

Eastern Utah

Before you go

Small museums, pioneer relic halls and historical societies often keep short or seasonal hours, and some open only by appointment. University museums can follow the school calendar. Check the museum's own site or call ahead. Find more on our top 50 attractions, parks and town guides.