The Park City Museum is thrilled to announce the opening of our new exhibition in honor of the 2026 Semiquincentennial, on display in the Tozer Gallery from March 13, 2026 …
The Perfect Shot: Walter Iooss Jr., and the Art of Sports Photography, will run from November 10, 2025 through January 7, 2026 at the Park City Museum. From Muhammad Ali …
In 2018, the Doomsday Clock was set to two minutes to midnight, the closest it has ever been to striking midnight since the height of the Cold War in 1953 …
Graveyard of Buoyant Hopes: Ghost Towns & Relics of the American West, a dual media exhibit with watercolors by Kevin Heaney and photographs by Lee Silliman, will be on display …
Venture backstage into the golden age of Hollywood with this exhibition that explores the photography of Bob Willoughby. Widely recognized as a pioneer of photography in the twentieth century, Willoughby …
The Park City Museum will host Wanted: Dead or Alive, a traveling exhibit from the Oklahoma History Center, from August 3 to September 29, 2024. This photography exhibit features images …
The Park City Museum is pleased to host Postcards from Mecca: The California Desert Photographs of Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves from February 25 through July 7, 2024. …
The Park City Museum will host Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier from November 4, 2023 to January 7, 2024. This exhibit features the spectrum of wildlife which graced the …
Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates how the “upcycling” of these bags mutually benefited twentieth-century consumers and businesses. With …
Discover an overlooked moment in U.S. history when people with disabilities occupied a government building to win their rights. The exhibit Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights …
The history and culture of Latinos and their impact on American culture and society through the lens of baseball will be shared in the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s (SITES) …
This exhibit features vintage 19th century prints circulated to audiences in England, France, and Germany, who were eager to learn about the trans-Mississippi frontier West that was being colonized by …
Historically, the ephemeral hardworking American political poster has been hiding in plain sight, attempting to catch our eye and capture our vote through the use of visual language. In a …
In 1965, 16-year-old Doug Keister acquired 280 glass plate negatives, originally found at a local garage sale. He immediately made prints from some of the plates, revealing powerful, early 20th-century …
It has been more than 150 years since the Gold Rush galvanized California. Now, visitors to the Park City Museum can experience it for themselves. Gold Fever! Untold Stories of …
The Park City Museum is thrilled to host the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s new bilingual (Spanish and English) exhibition, Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los …
A new traveling exhibition documenting the 1873 overland journey of artists Jules Tavernier and Paul Frenzeny, A Great Frontier Odyssey: Sketching the American West, will be on display at the …
Jacob Riis (1849–1914) was a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the twentieth century. His then-novel idea of using photographs of the city’s …
The Park City Museum is proud to host the Smithsonian traveling exhibition “Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II” from June 19 to October 4, 2020. The exhibition …
May 10, 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first North American transcontinental railroad. At a ceremony at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, the Union and …
From 1914 until her final cartoon appeared in 1927, Nina Allender contributed over 150 cartoons to the suffrage campaign, mostly original drawings. . …
These are the perennial signs of a suburban summer: the smell of hot dogs on the grill, the sound of a mower on a Saturday afternoon, pool parties and get-togethers on the patio.
For more than 150 years, Coney Island, a strip of sand at the mouth of New York Harbor, has occupied a singular place in the American imagination. From a beginning …
On a daily basis, editorial cartoonists deliver biting social commentary made palatable through amusing and well-crafted illustration. Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons features over forty original editorial cartoons …
Throughout the nineteenth century as Americans pushed west toward the Pacific, they were fascinated by westward expansion in North America. Printed imagery—lithographs and engravings—played an important role in the dissemination …
The classic metal and wood structures that have populated playgrounds for most of the twentieth century—towering metal slides, giant jungle gyms, whirling merry-go-rounds, bouncing seesaws—have become beloved artifacts of childhood. …
Route 66 is emblematic of the American experience. Nearly every aspect of 20th century United States history is reflected in the story of the people and events along the Mother …
The Park City Museum is thrilled to announce a collaboration with Utah Humanities to bring The Way We Worked, a Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution on year-long tour through Utah. Park …
The Hunt for Treasure! has four themes: sunken treasure, buried treasure, metal detecting, and the modern treasure hunt. Visitors will love hunting for “treasures” with a metal detector, digging for treasure …
Last call, last call! The Park City Museum is going dry with its newest traveling exhibit, Spirited: Prohibition in America. On display from April 5 to May 25, 2017 in the …
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections presents the American experience through photographs, accompanying text in story form and over 100 vintage aprons. The exhibit explores the people behind the …
What make a house a home? Throughout American history, people have lived in all sorts of places, from military barracks and two‐story colonials to college dormitories and row houses. Drawn …
This sensational exhibit transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults delight in exploring math and books. The exhibit offers hands-on, play-filled experiences with simple math …
Can you imagine a time when there were no waterproof raincoats? No plastic buckets? Humans existed without plastics for centuries. Now, we rely on them to meet our basic needs. …
In an era spanning the early 20th century, through depression ridden times and a dust bowl, one form of revelry thrived – the circus. Traveling from coast to coast, rail cars packed …
For thousands of years until the early 1860s, there were tens of millions of bison roaming the plains of North America. By 1890, there were fewer than 300. What happened? …
Wild Land: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Landscape Painting explores the world of Thomas Cole, an English immigrant painter who revolutionized American landscape painting. Take a walk “into the …
In December 2013, Park City Mountain Resort turned fifty. To help celebrate the history of the resort and its impact on Park City’s development as a ski town, the Park …
A name is shouted out, and a parcel is handed through the crowd to its eager recipient—mail call is a moment when the front line and home front connect. Letters, …
What is in the food we eat? Are fruits and vegetables important? Can everyday activities burn calories? Visitors will find the answers to these questions by exploring nutrition and fitness …