Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Park City Museum will host Wanted: Dead or Alive, a traveling exhibit from the Oklahoma History...
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...
Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier
The Park City Museum will host Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier from November 4, 2023 to...
Thrift Style
Thrift Style explores the reuse of feed sacks to make clothing and other household objects and illuminates...
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...
¡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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
Lines with Power and Purpose
On a daily basis, editorial cartoonists deliver biting social commentary made palatable through amusing and well-crafted illustration....
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...
Once Upon a Playground
The classic metal and wood structures that have populated playgrounds for most of the twentieth century—towering metal...
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...
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...
The Hunt for Treasure!
The Hunt for Treasure! has four themes: sunken treasure, buried treasure, metal detecting, and the modern treasure hunt. ...
Spirited: Prohibition in America
Last call, last call! The Park City Museum is going dry with its newest traveling exhibit, Spirited: Prohibition...
Apron Chronicles
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections presents the American experience through photographs, accompanying text in story...
House & Home
What make a house a home? Throughout American history, people have lived in all sorts of places,...
Go Figure!
This sensational exhibit transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults delight in...
Plastics Unwrapped
Can you imagine a time when there were no waterproof raincoats? No plastic buckets? Humans existed without...
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...
The Bison: American Icon
For thousands of years until the early 1860s, there were tens of millions of bison roaming the...
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...
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...
Mail Call
A name is shouted out, and a parcel is handed through the crowd to its eager recipient—mail...
Eat Well, Play Well
What is in the food we eat? Are fruits and vegetables important? Can everyday activities burn calories? ...
Linedrives and Lipstick
Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of...
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...
Going Places
Before the dawn of the automobile, horse-drawn carriages were essential for providing Americans with goods, services and...
Park City Pets: Our Lives with Animals
What would our lives be like without animals? For a town whose nickname is “Bark City,” it...