Park City Museum

Sizes: 150 × 150 / 300 × 203 / 750 × 509 / 750 × 508 / 480 × 300 / 480 × 300 / 1,500 × 1,017

interior and exterior images

Gallery

Brenda Biondo, Miracle Lifetime Whirl, Hudson, CO, 2011; colorphotograph, 28 1/2 x 20 inches; Courtesy of the artist.

In Cahoots

National Constitution Center

Learn how to make a book at the Park City Museum.

Barn-Postcard

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

The Way We Worked

Make sure to stop by every couple months to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Students learn about the 1898 fire by looking at historic photographs.

Book card in the Park City Library

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

PCHS Band, 1950

George Catlin, North American Indians, 1844, hand-colored lithograph, 25 x 21, private collection. Photo: E.G. Schempf.

Dodo poses on Sam Billings’ (left) motorcycle with Ephraim Adamson (right). Pop Jenks Collection

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Wedding party at the Utah Central Railroad Depot. October 30, 1900.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

artist known as “Army,” Organized Crime—Oklahoma City, 1940; 12 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, ink on paper; Courtesy of University of Central Oklahoma Galleries and Collections.

Test your flexibility!

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

A bracero with a short-handled hoe over his shoulder stands in a California field.

Coffee cherries being loaded onto a truck (Herbazu, Costa Rica), photograph by D. Major Cohen.

Drop by the Smith & Brim and learn about some of the eating habits of early Parkites.

Halloween at the Glenwood

Going Places

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Wedding party at the Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

Make your own sock-puppet.

The National Archives Experience

Bonnie (Witch), Noah (Renaissance Man), and Ron (Mother Urban) enjoy the evening

Wedding party at Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

401 Park Avenue. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Thomas F. Hansen Collection, made possible by a gift from Peter and Gail Ochs

Step back in time: make sure you stay on the right side of the law!

Raffle

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Postcard, “Entrance to Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y.” c. 1914. 4 x 6 in. Published by the American Art Publishing Co., New York. Private Collection.

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Test your flexibility!

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

Museum-Art

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Early stock options. Click to view more.

View over 100 aprons in our newest traveling exhibit, Apron Chronicles.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz enjoy the Dungeon Party.

Caption goes here

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

A bracero with a short-handled hoe over his shoulder stands in a California field.

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Students enjoy a break in the Skier Subway after their tour.

December 28, 2011

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

Learn about this 1926 Graham Bros Dodge and the generations of Berrys who served the Park City Fire Department.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

On a guided hike with Hal

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

Go Figure!

New Harmonies Park City Local Sponors — PC Library, Egyptian Theatre, Mountain Town Music, Deer Valley Music Festival, Done to Your Taste, Summit County

Museum member Don Covert enjoys one of our popular ski tours.

Museum member Don Covert enjoys one of our popular ski tours.

Share the joy of math with children (Bigstock/SerrNovik)

Crossing the Border

In preparation of a camping trip in 1956, these Boy Scouts load gear into a trunk.

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

pop-jenks-newsletter

Park-City-Museum-Store

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

Dodo poses on Sam Billings’ (left) motorcycle with Ephraim Adamson (right). Pop Jenks Collection

Bison skull, c. 2009, bone, courtesy Smoky Hill Bison Ranch.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

Korean War: Men of the 5th Air Force receive donated books and periodicals sent in the mail, 1951. Courtesy National Archives

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Map by William Henry Jackson, 1861. Courtesy the Library of Congress.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

2.10-Invite

Wedding party at Utah Central Depot. October 30, 1900.

PCHS Band, 1950

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

Climb on board the skier subway and learn about its history.

Crossing the Border

The Kimball Stagecoach delivered mail–and passengers when it had room–to Park City.

John Vachon, Man mowing lawn, Grundy Center, Iowa, 1940, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Library of Congress.

December 28, 2011

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

Park City’s Historic Main Street. Click for more images.

2019-holiday-ornament_Thaynes-Conveyor-Mine

The Silver Queen made millions in Park City’s mines.

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Map by William Henry Jackson, 1861. Courtesy the Library of Congress.

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

Park City Museum New Harmonies Exhibit — Photos by Jim Herrington/www.jimherrington.com and Philip Gould

Derelict fishing gear, plastic bottles, and marine debris, Maug Island, Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, 2009. Image courtesy of Angelo Villagomez/Marine Photobank.

Park City miner Jim Santy explains the hoist during a 2nd grade tour.

Model of the Coalition Building and Silver King Aerial Tramway in the Park City Museum

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Wheelchair access icon

Fell down a shaft; died of a broken heart; accidentally shot. Who says life in the old West was a bowl of cherries?

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

UT Office of Tourism, Zions Bank, KUER, KRCL, Eccles Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federation of State Humanities Councils

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

Irene Ruhnke, 2007 reproduction of 1946 original, Photograph, Image: 12 x 8, Private collection.

Raffle

Why did writing a newspaper article in a tent make the front page in 1898? Find out on the mezzanine level!

NEH on the Road

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

????????????????????????????

Going Places

Utah Humanities Council

Woman holding cherries (Tanzania), photograph by Mark Stell, courtesy of Portland Roasting.

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

Stop by to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

Lakewood Plaza, outdoor living space. Long Beach, Calif., 1950s. Maynard L. Parker, photographer. Courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

Members enjoying the infamous Dungeon Party. Click for more images.

Bonnie (Witch), Noah (Renaissance Man), and Ron (Mother Urban) enjoy the evening

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

PCHS Band, 1950

• John Vachon, Man mowing lawn, Grundy Center, Iowa, 1940, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Library of Congress.

Irene Ruhnke, 2007 reproduction of 1946 original, Photograph, Image: 12 x 8, Private collection.

2018-Ornament

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Silver-to-Snow

Belly up to the bar and learn why the bar was more than a place to wet your whistle.

Marine Ricky Sorenson at the soda fountain after coming home from war.

Fell down a shaft; died of a broken heart; accidentally shot. Who says life in the old West was a bowl of cherries?

Learn about the 1926 Graham Brothers Dodge and the generations of Berrys who served the Park City Fire Department.

The Kimball Stagecoach delivered mail-and passengers when it had room-to Park City.

Stop by to see what’s new in the Changing Gallery!

Just as in the early days, no one wears an apron to Club, although at a recent FCE convention, there was a program on aprons, and we all wore ours and participated in an apron parade. The styles reminded us of how much has changed for country women, but the apron and its strings still draw the family together, and home life will always be our first and highest priority. ©EllynAnne Geisel

Image Info

Dimensions 1,500 × 1,017
Camera NIKON D3
Aperture ^f⁄₁₈
Focal Length 19 mm
ISO 125
Shutter Speed ¹⁄₂ sec
Name Digi-27-46_0910_Doug_Burke_Photo_PC_Museum_29211.jpg
Mime Type image/jpeg
Type JPG
Size 437.22 KB

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Covid-19 Update: The Park City Museum is currently open Wednesday through Sunday Read more