The Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) is a museum located at the Rio Tinto Center on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The museum shows exhibits of natural history subjects, specifically about Utah's natural history. The mission of the museum is to illuminate the natural world and the place of humans within it. The new building, opened in 2011, was conceived as an extension of the land it occupies, and the people that have occupied it, that lived with it well before us, and to those that today still cherish it. It was designed to be an outgrowth of that phenomenon - a celebration of the men and women who have found a way to live with the extraordinary circumstances of a place, that was formed millions of years ago, and, a place that has tested the will of all people to look closely at what this earth can give us, through example and understanding - it was designed to create a path to understanding, a pathway to embracing who we are in this place we call home.
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