Thursday, June 19, 2008

Museums and Sites

For a complete list of Museums in Salt Lake County click here. Listed below are just a few FREE museums and sites that I am aware of. If you know of any more, or if you go to any of these and have feedback, please comment and let us know!

Also, if you are intereseted, there is a Treasure Hunt Brochure you can print out and use for yourself and/or your kids, to make your visits to the museums even more meaningful.

The Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts is always free and is located at Liberty Park.

The Museum of Church History and Art.

The Conference Center.

The Relief Society Building provides a small tour of the bottom level, describing the history of the building, of the Relief Society, and displays of gifts from around the world.

Other Temple Square Sites (North and South Visitors' Center, Beehive House, etc.)

The Fort Douglas Museum.

The Latter-day Saint Humanitarian Center

The Pioneer Memorial Museum .

The Red Butte Garden has some free admission days throughout the year. The next one coming up is Pioneer Day, July 24. Check out the link for a full year calendar.

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is free to the public every 1st Wednesday of each month. They also do free family art activities every 3rd Saturday of each month.

The Utah Museum of Natural History is free to the public every 1st Monday of each month.

Welfare Square provides a free 1 hour tour of all of the facilities. At the end, you get to try some of their own chocolate milk, cheese, bread, honey, peanut butter, and jam.

The Wheeler Historic Farm is free to see the animals and the barn museum. There are some activities, such as Farm Chores, that cost a little ($0.50 per person).

The Salt Lake Gallery Association hosts a monthly Gallery Stroll on the 3rd Friday of each month from
6:00-9:00 PM.

4 comments:

Nourishing Creations said...

The new exhibit at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is the Monet to Picasso exhibit June 23rd-September 21st. That is great that the 1st wed of each month is free. We should all try to go see these historical works of art in our very own city! We are planning on going the evening of Wed. July 2nd since it is free that day! (Unless we pick up a free museum pass on july 1st from the library, we'll go on a weekend!) Let me know if anyone would like to go with us. Here is a link to the Monet exhibit: http://www.umfa.utah.edu/

David y April said...

Awesome info and great idea to go together those that want/can. Thank you Elizabeth!

Anonymous said...

There are also free concerts in the Brigham Young Park just east of the Church Office Building. They are on Tuesday and Friday evenings. They have some lawn chairs set up, you can bring your own chairs or spread a blanket on the lawn. There is a poster by the bishops office with the schedule.

David y April said...

Thanks for the info about the free concerts! This week I will put another post about those concerts, and other free ones in the area. This is great! keep sharing any info anyone has!