Moab History: “Moab: Uranium Center of America”
We close out this year’s Moab History column with a nod toward Moab’s past and the Museum’s future. We’ll be closing our doors beginning this Sunday, December 22nd through February 10th to install…
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“Toy Story” from Topaz Camp
Through this December, the Museum is proud to exhibit “Topaz Stories: Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration” in tandem with “A Moab Prison Camp,” lending a state-wide perspective to this dark period of American history during WWII.
Walking down the historic path of Spanish exploration in the Southwest
This week, the Moab Museum team dives into the history of Spanish exploration in the state of Utah.
Canyonlands PRCA Rodeo will thrill crowds while preserving history
Long before tourism was the primary industry in Moab, it was a true “wild west” town, relying on cattle trade as the basis of the local economy. From the town’s founding at the…
Moab History: Jeep Week
Moab in the late 1960s was a time of change. Mining, the town’s primary economic driver in years prior, was on the decline with the decreased demand of uranium ore by the United…
Sarah J. Elliott and Women’s History in Grand County
This March, the Moab Museum is celebrating Women’s History Month with a weekly pop-up on our West Lawn. Museum staff invite you to make a button or color a postcard of significant women…
Emit Pittman – Dalton Wells CCC Enrollee
The 1943 incarceration of Japanese Americans and Moab’s role in these national-scale events were predated by Dalton Wells’ original use: a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp – DG-32. This week, the Museum…
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…
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,…
Science Moab: Reconstructing climates of the past
Science Moab talks with paleoclimate reconstruction specialist Kyle Bocinsky
WWII bridge guards honored
The Historic Preservation Commission is proposing to place a small plaque on the boulder summarizing that history.
Moab History: Downtown on camera
The uranium mining boom of the 1950s changed Moab tremendously, transforming the sleepy, remote city into a bustling, affluent boomtown. While a lot changed overnight, other facets of the town’s growth took time….
Spirit & Grit: Moab Women in the Late 1800s
Moab was an extremely isolated settlement prior to the completion of the railroad through Grand County in 1883, with large outposts located several days of hard travel away. Settlers were largely self-reliant. Women,…
Volunteer project highlights trail history: Canyonlands Chapter of the Backcountry Horsemen installed sculptures on Old Spanish Trail
In the opinion of the Canyonlands chapter of the Backcountry Horsemen, the reason Moab was originally founded is because of a geographic oddity: the Moab fault, which created an accessible path across the…
A tour of a mountain ghost town: The Moab Museum takes us to Miner’s Basin
Over a hundred years ago, a small community was established high in the La Sal Mountains. Miner’s Basin, also known simply as Basin, was founded in 1889 with high hopes of mining prosperity….