The CCC Camp at Dalton Wells– a precursor
As the Museum launches into the history and lasting legacy of the 1943 incarceration of Japanese Americans and Moab’s role in these national-scale events, we turn to the Fall/Winter 1993 Issue of the…
Moab History
Harry Yoshio Ueno: Incarcerated at Dalton Wells in 1943
During World War II, the U.S. Government incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese American citizens and Japanese nationals living in the Western U.S. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) established Citizen Isolation Centers to isolate…
A Moab Prison Camp
The Moab Museum looks at Japanese American incarceration in Grand County:
Elsie Holiday & Peggy Black: portraits of two basket weavers
The Moab Museum is proud to display ten striking Diné (Navajo)-woven baskets through the end of the current temporary exhibition. The baskets are on loan from the Twin Rocks Trading Post in Bluff,…
Profiling two modern basket weavers
The Moab Museum is proud to display ten striking Diné (Navajo)-woven baskets through the end of the current temporary exhibition. The baskets are on loan from the Twin Rocks Trading Post in Bluff,…
Moab History: Baskets to Textiles
The Museum is proud to exhibit ten striking baskets from the Twin Rocks Trading Post Collection for one month following our annual winter closure, until February 10th. Before there were Rugs According to…
Moab History: Curating new exhibits and local stories for the north gallery
Look out for new featured objects in 2024
Moab History: Collections spotlight – current meter
Explore this 1896 U.S.G.S. water current meter.
Moab History: The sheep wars
From the mid- to late-1800s, intense competition for prime grazing land often exploded into “range wars.”
Moab History: The Robidoux inscription
The inscription stands nearly 9 feet tall.