Experts' Choice Award Park City Museum
What the experts agree on
Park City Museum captures the town's colorful past through engaging exhibits—from the iconic Ontario Mine scale model to interactive displays—plus organized hikes and historic tours that bring mining and skiing heritage to life.
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"A well-staged interactive museum touches on the highlights of the town's history as a mining boomtown, hippie hangout and premier ski resort." Full review
Afar Magazine "Park City has more than 80 buildings on the National Historic Register and locals take pride in getting historic preservation grants to fix up the old miners' shacks left behind from the..." Full review
Fodor's "With a two-story scale model of the 19th-century Ontario Mine, a 20th-century gondola hanging overhead, and the old jail below, this is an authentic tribute to Park City's mining and skiing past." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Delivers with not only a high-quality Main Street exhibition that can take multiple visits to soak in, but also organized hikes to historic places, lectures, and local cemetery tours"
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National Geographic "Drill into bedrock at the interactive displays found within the oldest building on Main Street. In one of the original 1885 graffiti-scarred jail cells, a prisoner’s crudely drawn..."
New York Times "Park City Museum has permanent exhibits that delve into the town's past as a silver-mining center and its early days as a ski resort, as well as changing art exhibitions. Learn about the..."
Lonely Planet "Park City is one of the few towns in Utah founded by non-Mormons: when silver was discovered in the 1860s, crowds of prospectors flocked here hoping to strike it rich. Like many old..."
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