Park City Museum

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Gallery

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

Raffle

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

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

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Students at Parkside Apartments explore a carbide lamp.

Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II was developed by the National Museum of American History and adapted for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The national tour received federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Terasaki Family Foundation, and C. L. Ehn & Ginger Lew.

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

Utah Humanities Ideas In Action

Going Places

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

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

Swap stories at one of our oral history nights!

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

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

Halloween at the Glenwood

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

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

December 28, 2011

On a guided hike with Hal

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

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

2018-Ornament

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

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

Going Places

Make your own sock-puppet.

Crossing the Border

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

From the Jordanelle Special Service District Collection.

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

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

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

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

Test your flexibility!

Highline spur during the winter

Park City Museum members at the Annual Dungeon Party!

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

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

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

December 28, 2011

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

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

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

PCHS Band, 1950

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

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

Come “Savor the Summit” with us!

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Wasatch Coal Mine, Chalk Creek (near Coalville) dated 1908 Credit: Summit County Historical Museum

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

The Park City Wranglers, ca 1930s.

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

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

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

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

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

Utah Humanities Council

Test your flexibility!

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

Raffle

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

Barn-Postcard

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

The National Archives Experience

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Kearns building on Main Street

Swap stories about Park City at an oral history night!

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

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Muckers and Millionaires Case

The Way We Worked

Jacob A. Riis, “I Scrubs” – Little Katie from the West 52nd Street Industrial School, 1891-1892; reproduction on modern gelatin printing out paper, original 4 x 5 inches; From the Collection of the Museum of the City of New York, 90.13.4.132.

PCHS Band, 1950

1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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

The Mega Mine viewed from the mezzanine.

In Cahoots

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.

Wendy Lavitt, Syd Reed and Barbara Martz

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

Exploring Park City’s history is great fun!

Early stock options. Click to view more.

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

Meet the Ghosts of Park City’s Past

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

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

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

2011 – Daly West Mine & Head Frame

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

NEH on the Road

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

Retired miner Rich Martinez shares photos and stories with docents.

Lannie Scopes as Deputy Sheriff Sam Billings.

Thomas Kearns underground at the Silver King

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

Ken Martz talks about his historic home.

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

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

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National Constitution Center

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

Pat Kutzbach and Jon Scarlet catalog Park City business tokens.

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

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

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

Crossing the Border

Moose on Main Street 2017 ornament

Book card in the Park City Library

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.

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

The Park City Military Band, July 4, 1911.

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

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

Docent led Museum tours explore Park City history.

Muckers and Millionaires Case

Silver-to-Snow

Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

Go Figure!

The Semper Fidelis Club bids farewell to Marines

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

Photos courtesy Park City Museum and Deer Valley Resort.

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

Main Street, ca.1900, Kendall Webb Collection

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

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