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November 2020
Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »December 2020
Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »Saving the Mining Structures Lecture given by JR Richards and Clark Martinez
Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History and the Park City Museum would like to invite you to a Zoom lecture about Saving Our Mining Structures given by JR Richards and Clark Martinez on Friday, December 4th from 5-6 p.m. Please register for the lecture at https://parkcityhistory.org/event/saving-the-mining-structures-lecture-given-by-friends-of-ski-mountain-mining-history/ and a link will be sent to you the week of the talk. Jonathan Richards (JR) of Calder Richards Engineering has been our structural engineer of choice for many years as we have…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »From Jacob Riis to StoryCorps: The Documentary Impulse in America Zoom Lecture given by Professor Matthew Basso
Park City Museum will host a Zoom lecture called From Jacob Riis to StoryCorps: The Documentary Impulse in America given by Matthew Basso on Thursday, December 10 from 5-6 p.m. Please go to https://parkcityhistory.org/event/jacob-riis-zoom-lecture-given-by-matthew-basso/ to signup for the lecture. This talk traces the “documentary impulse,” strongly associated in the U.S. with Jacob Riis, through the twentieth century to our current moment. As it does so it considers two questions central to Riis and those that came after him: what is…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »Museum Free Day!
Thanks to a grant from the State of Utah, Arts & Heritage Division, admission is FREE on select days for you and your family to enjoy our world class museum, including our new traveling exhibit: Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives. Join us Free on Friday & Sunday the last week of November (we are closed Thanksgiving Day), and every Friday and Sunday in December (except Friday, December 25 - we will be closed). For more information visit us…
Find out more »January 2021
Daly West Lecture given by Brian Buck
More information to follow. Register for this lecture
Find out more »February 2021
Zoom Lecture given by Sydney Williams
Sydney Williams will be giving a lecture on a book he wrote called Dear Mary which is about his parents Sydney M. Williams, Jr. and Mary Williams. Sydney M. Williams, Jr. joined the American army in 1944 and served in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy until his release in 1945. All during that time he wrote letters home to his beloved wife, Mary. Register for this lecture
Find out more »March 2021
Major John Wesley Powell Lecture given by Dorian DeMaio
In 1869 a company of explorers set off to survey the last uncharted territory in the American West by traveling down the Green and Colorado Rivers, becoming the first white men to brave the entirety of the Grand Canyon. They were led by a 35 year old naturalist/scientist, Major John Wesley Powell who had lost an arm in the Civil War. None had river-running experience or knowledge of the many hazards that lay ahead as they proceeded into the “Great Unknown”.…
Find out more »April 2021
May 2021
Parley Pratt Lecture given by Matthew Grow
More information to follow. Register for this lecture
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