Moab Museum | Exhibition
What are traveling exhibits? Museums large and small often opt to borrow traveling exhibits to temporarily integrate into their galleries when they align with their institution’s scope or programming. Traveling exhibits are curated collections of objects and/or images that tell a story, but are displayed for only a limited time frame. These exhibits are commonly…
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By: Tara Beresh, Museum Curatorial and Collections Manager This Q&A initially appeared in the Moab Sun News in June, 2023. Exhibition Significance The Moab Museum consults with regional tribal members to learn how to better serve a portion of our community that has been inaccurately represented, with regard to Museum environments. My primary question to our Native…
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The annual Delicate Stitchers quilt show will be on exhibit at the Moab Museum beginning on May 2nd. This year’s quilt challenge is called Flower Power and features floral fabrics and other flowery design elements – as well as a couple of historic quilts from the Moab Museum’s Collection that (serendipitously) feature flowers too. There will be…
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Over the past few years, the Museum has made great strides in digitizing the rich and varied Oral History Collection. Thanks to support from Utah Humanities, this treasure trove of firsthand stories is now more organized, accessible, and digitized than ever before – and this Spring, an exhibit highlights some of the amazing stories in…
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This September, Moabites and visitors have had the opportunity to experience a prominent Moab story in two very different ways: both through a Museum exhibit and as an opera. William Grandstaff was an early settler of the Moab region- a Black cowboy and frontiersman who once ran cattle in the canyon we today call Grandstaff…
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This summer, the Moab Museum is thrilled to present a temporary exhibit exploring a fascinating array of intertwined histories. Featuring a treasure trove of photographs from across the region documented by rock inscription experts and backcountry adventurers James Knipmeyer and Mike Ford, Butch Cassidy Was Here: Historic Inscriptions of the Colorado Plateau weaves together the…
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Moab Charter School kindergarten through sixth grade students have created a vibrant and creative body of artwork this year, on display in the south gallery of the Moab Museum now through the end of April. From portraits of local flora and fauna to abstract acrylics to collage, the art show showcases tremendous creativity while highlighting…
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The annual Delicate Stitchers quilt show will once again bring a pop of color to the Museum’s galleries this Spring. For decades, the Delicate Stitchers Quilting Guild has exhibited at the Moab Museum each year, and the quilt show remains a beloved tradition for many quilters and quilt-admirers alike. This year, the club’s quilting challenge…
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This spring, a host of temporary exhibits collaboratively curated with local organizations take center stage at the Museum. Mark your calendars, and join us for this dynamic array of exhibitions- featuring the stories, art, and hard work of the community and showcased in the galleries of the Moab Museum. In March, the Moab Valley Multicultural…
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This winter, the Moab Museum has come alive with color. A wide array of intricately carved and vibrantly painted katsintithu – widely known as “kachina dolls”– are on exhibit through February 2022. The temporary exhibition entitled Hopi Katsina: Evolving Styles, Enduring Meanings, offers a glimpse into the flourishing cultural and creative tradition of Hopi katsintithu…
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