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Postcards from Mecca: The California Desert Photographs of Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves
The Park City Museum is pleased to host Postcards from Mecca: The California Desert Photographs of Susie...
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Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier
The Park City Museum will host Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier from November 4, 2023 to...
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Thrift Style
Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates...
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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...
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¡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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Lines with Power and Purpose
On a daily basis, editorial cartoonists deliver biting social commentary made palatable through amusing and well-crafted illustration....
![George Catlin, North American Indians, 1844, hand-colored lithograph, 25 x 21, private collection. Photo: E.G. Schempf.](https://parkcityhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/North-American-Indians-600x817-600x500.jpg)
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...
![Brenda Biondo, Miracle Lifetime Whirl, Hudson, CO, 2011; color photograph, 28 1/2 x 20 inches; Courtesy of the artist.](https://parkcityhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Playground-600x833-600x500.jpg)
Once Upon a Playground
The classic metal and wood structures that have populated playgrounds for most of the twentieth century—towering metal...
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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...
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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...
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The Hunt for Treasure!
The Hunt for Treasure! has four themes: sunken treasure, buried treasure, metal detecting, and the modern treasure hunt. ...
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Spirited: Prohibition in America
Last call, last call! The Park City Museum is going dry with its newest traveling exhibit, Spirited: Prohibition...
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Apron Chronicles
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections presents the American experience through photographs, accompanying text in story...
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House & Home
What make a house a home? Throughout American history, people have lived in all sorts of places,...
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Go Figure!
This sensational exhibit transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults delight in...
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Plastics Unwrapped
Can you imagine a time when there were no waterproof raincoats? No plastic buckets? Humans existed without...
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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...
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The Bison: American Icon
For thousands of years until the early 1860s, there were tens of millions of bison roaming the...
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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...
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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...
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Mail Call
A name is shouted out, and a parcel is handed through the crowd to its eager recipient—mail...
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Eat Well, Play Well
What is in the food we eat? Are fruits and vegetables important? Can everyday activities burn calories? ...
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Linedrives and Lipstick
Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of...
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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...
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Going Places
Before the dawn of the automobile, horse-drawn carriages were essential for providing Americans with goods, services and...
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Park City Pets: Our Lives with Animals
What would our lives be like without animals? For a town whose nickname is “Bark City,” it...