Features
The Museum's national accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums distinguishes it as fewer than 10% of museums awarded such accreditation. As a state and federal repository for both paleontological and archaeological collections, the museum’s holdings include more than 700,000 archaeological artifacts, comprising one of the largest and most significant collections in the country. Many of these artifacts, such as those left by the indigenous Fremont people, have become world-renowned. The Museum’s paleontological collection includes type specimens and fossil finds new to science. The Museum is a pre-eminent educational, research, recreational, and cultural institution in Southeastern Utah. The collections and exhibits focus on specimens indigenous to the region and include:
- Fremont culture exhibits such as rock art reproductions and the famous Pilling Figurines
- Comprehensive display of Utah’s Ice Age ecology and Paleoindian presence
- The Huntington Mammoth, best-known and one of best-kept of all fossil elephants
- Utahraptor and a dozen other new dinosaurs, several percent of known global diversity
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