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Past Traveling Exhibits

The Park City Museum is pleased to have been chosen to host many traveling exhibitions from the Smithsonian and other renown institutions across the nation.

¡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...

On Display: October 29, 2022 - December 18, 2022

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...

On Display: June 18, 2022 - August 21, 2022

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...

On Display: February 14, 2022 - April 30, 2022

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. ...

On Display: November 21, 2021 - January 7, 2022

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...

On Display: September 12, 2021 - November 7, 2021

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...

On Display: May 15, 2021 - August 8, 2021

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...

On Display: February 3, 2021 - April 4, 2021

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...

On Display: November 10, 2020 - January 7, 2021

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...

On Display: June 19, 2020 - October 4, 2020

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....

On Display: February 6, 2020 - March 15, 2020
Nina Evans Allender (1873-1957) in her studio circa 1921

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...

On Display: November 27, 2019 - January 13, 2020

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,...

On Display: June 15, 2019 - November 20, 2019

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...

On Display: April 6, 2019 - May 25, 2019
Organized Crime — Oklahoma City, 1940

Lines with Power and Purpose

On a daily basis, editorial cartoonists deliver biting social commentary made palatable through amusing and well-crafted illustration....

On Display: February 9, 2019 - March 5, 2019
George Catlin, North American Indians, 1844, hand-colored lithograph, 25 x 21, private collection. Photo: E.G. Schempf.

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...

On Display: November 10, 2018 - January 7, 2019
Brenda Biondo, Miracle Lifetime Whirl, Hudson, CO, 2011; color photograph, 28 1/2 x 20 inches; Courtesy of the artist.

Once Upon a Playground

The classic metal and wood structures that have populated playgrounds for most of the twentieth century—towering metal...

On Display: June 16, 2018 - October 16, 2018
1943 McAllen, TX Main Street

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...

On Display: February 5, 2018 - May 6, 2018
The Way We Worked exhibition in the Tozer Gallery

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...

On Display: November 11, 2017 - January 10, 2018
Hunt for Treasure

The Hunt for Treasure!

The Hunt for Treasure! has four themes: sunken treasure, buried treasure, metal detecting, and the modern treasure hunt. ...

On Display: June 23, 2017 - October 19, 2017
Prohibition, Detroit, 1919, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Spirited: Prohibition in America

Last call, last call!  The Park City Museum is going dry with its newest traveling exhibit, Spirited: Prohibition...

On Display: April 6, 2017 - May 25, 2017
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

Apron Chronicles

Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections presents the American experience through photographs, accompanying text in story...

On Display: September 16, 2016 - December 11, 2016
John Vachon, Man mowing lawn, Grundy Center, Iowa, 1940, black-and-white photograph, courtesy Library of Congress.

House & Home

What make a house a home?  Throughout American history, people have lived in all sorts of places,...

On Display: June 16, 2016 - August 11, 2016

Go Figure!

This sensational exhibit transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults delight in...

On Display: February 12, 2016 - May 16, 2016
Derelict fishing gear, plastic bottles, and marine debris, Maug Island, Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, 2009. Image courtesy of Angelo Villagomez/Marine Photobank.

Plastics Unwrapped

Can you imagine a time when there were no waterproof raincoats? No plastic buckets? Humans existed without...

On Display: October 3, 2015 - January 8, 2016
Elephant and Kids, black-and-white photograph, collection Tegge Circus Archives.

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...

On Display: April 6, 2015 - August 11, 2015
Bison skull, c. 2009, bone, courtesy Smoky Hill Bison Ranch.

The Bison: American Icon

For thousands of years until the early 1860s, there were tens of millions of bison roaming the...

On Display: November 10, 2014 - January 7, 2015
Thomas Cole Painting

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...

On Display: June 16, 2014 - October 20, 2014
Gondola display

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...

On Display: November 23, 2013 - May 25, 2014
Korean War: Men of the 5th Air Force receive donated books and periodicals sent in the mail, 1951. Courtesy National Archives

Mail Call

A name is shouted out, and a parcel is handed through the crowd to its eager recipient—mail...

On Display: May 11, 2013 - October 20, 2013

Eat Well, Play Well

What is in the food we eat? Are fruits and vegetables important?  Can everyday activities burn calories? ...

On Display: February 2, 2013 - May 5, 2013
Irene Ruhnke, 2007 reproduction of 1946 original, Photograph, Image: 12 x 8, Private collection.

Linedrives and Lipstick

Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of...

On Display: November 10, 2012 - January 7, 2013
Atomic Bomb

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...

On Display: June 16, 2012 - October 21, 2012
Surrey-and-Backdrop-Model

Going Places

Before the dawn of the automobile, horse-drawn carriages were essential for providing Americans with goods, services and...

On Display: April 6, 2012 - May 28, 2012
Dodo poses on Sam Billings’ (left) motorcycle with Ephraim Adamson (right). Pop Jenks Collection

Park City Pets: Our Lives with Animals

What would our lives be like without animals?  For a town whose nickname is “Bark City,” it...

On Display: October 1, 2011 - March 19, 2012
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