Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier
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 …
Past Tozer Gallery Exhibits
Thrift Style
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 …
Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights
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 …
¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues / En los barrios y las grandes ligas
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) …
Viewed from Afar: European Prints of the American Frontier West, 1759 – 1908
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 …
Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster 1844 – 2012
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 …
Black and White in Black and White: Images of Dignity, Hope and Diversity in America
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 …
Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the California Gold Rush
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 …
Dolores Huerta: Revolution in the Fields / Revolución en los Campos
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 Great Frontier Odyssey: Sketching the American West
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 A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
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 …
Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II
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 …
A World Transformed: The Transcontinental Railroad and Utah
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 …
A Woman Speaking to Women: The Political Art of Nina Allender
From 1914 until her final cartoon appeared in 1927, Nina Allender contributed over 150 cartoons to the suffrage campaign, mostly original drawings. . …
Patios, Pools & the Invention of the American Backyard
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.
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008
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 …
Lines with Power and Purpose
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 …
Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined
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 …
Once Upon a Playground
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. …
America’s Road: The Journey of Route 66
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 Way We Worked and The Way Park City Worked
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!
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 …
Spirited: Prohibition in America
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
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 …
House & Home
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 …
Go Figure!
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 …
Plastics Unwrapped
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. …
Step Right Up! Behind the Scenes of the Circus Big Top, 1890 – 1965
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 …
The Bison: American Icon
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 the American Landscape Painting
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 …
Mines to Moguls: 50 Years of Park City Skiing
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 …
Mail Call
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, …
Eat Well, Play Well
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 …
Linedrives and Lipstick
Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of “Atta girl!”. While the 1992 film, A League of Their Own, introduced contemporary audiences …
Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb, 1945 – 1965
On August 6, 1945, a specially-equipped American B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. On August 9, another atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki. For most Americans, the immediate …
Going Places
Before the dawn of the automobile, horse-drawn carriages were essential for providing Americans with goods, services and leisure opportunities. As the standard of living improved during the 19th century, more …
Park City Pets: Our Lives with Animals
What would our lives be like without animals? For a town whose nickname is “Bark City,” it was only a matter of time before we focused on Park City’s four-legged …