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Guide to the Arts in Salt Lake City: Museums, Performing Arts & More

Meta Description: Salt Lake City is a great place for the arts. Between the museums and performing arts venues and organizations there is so much to see and do.

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An Arts Guide to Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City may be known to most outsiders for a singular thing. But, there is far more to “The Crossroads of the West” than the cultural attractions directly related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church. The attractions associated with the church are quite spectacular and will get their due in this article as well. We aim to …show more content…

The planetarium hosts films, star viewing programs, laser light shows, and other special events.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Natural History Museum of Utah, and Red Butte Garden and Arboretum http://www.utah.edu/arts/museums.php Only a few blocks from Temple Square on the University of Utah campus in downtown Salt Lake City, you will find two fine museums: the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and the Natural History Museum of Utah. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, or UMFA has a core collection that features fine art and art objects that span five thousand years of human history on the planet. The museum also hosts touring exhibitions and special collections from other regional, national, and international partnering institutions.

The Natural History Museum of Utah opened the doors of it’s new, highly acclaimed collections in 2011. It is roundly considered to be one of the best museums of its kind in the whole country. Just outside its doors you will find the more than one hundred acres of gardens and trails that make up the Red Butte Garden and Arboretum natural area. This unspoiled stretch of Wasatch foothills is an excellent place to quietly commune with nature, unless you happen to visit during the outdoor concert series, which attracts top national and …show more content…

The state historical society collects and celebrates the whole of Utah’s history, while the Pioneer Memorial Museum collects artifacts from the arrival of white settlers in the region up until the joining of the national railroads at nearby Promontory Point in 1869.

Fort Douglas Military Museum http://www.fortdouglas.org/ An official museum of the U.S. Army Museum System since its establishment in August of 1974, the Fort Douglas Military Museum contains collections and memorials dedicated to the contribution of Utah’s citizens in the wars of the United States, and the regional conflicts that witnessed Utah’s joining the union in the first

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