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This past year, as the Moab Museum presented U92: Moab’s Uranium Legacy, we expanded the story beyond artifacts and timelines. We listened to the community. The Uranium Memories Project is a new oral history initiative designed to collect, preserve, and share first-hand accounts of uranium mining and milling across the Colorado Plateau, and the profound…
The Moab Museum is proud to announce a new initiative offering free admission to all students enrolled in the Grand County School District, at the Moab Charter School and the Heron School, ensuring that every local student has year-round access to the region’s history, stories, and cultural heritage. We ask that you bring your student…
This piece is historical fiction written by 10th grade Grand County Student Jacklyn Shumway inspired by the Scorup Hat housed within the Museum’s Collection. Jacklyn participated in a Science Moab School to Science job shadow in November 2025. After viewing the Collection, finding inspiration, and aligning personal writing passions, Jacklyn decided to explore historical fiction,…
A great crowd of Moab locals and Museum members turned out for the special opening of “Breaking 100 Years of Silence” this January. We’ll be hosting this exhibition through mid-April, featuring the work of many artists remembering and interpreting the Aniknuche Incarceration. Many thanks to Deena Ute and Jedediah Rogers who presented on the evening.
100 Years of Silence: The Aniknuche Incarceration For six weeks in 1923 San Juan County settlers held the Aniknuche people in a makeshift prison camp, and federal officials shipped their children to boarding schools. This moment, formerly known as “the Posey War,” now recognized by the White Mesa Ute community as “the Aniknuche Incarceration,” marked…
As 2025 comes to a close, the Moab Museum extends heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this year such a meaningful and successful one. To our members, donors, volunteers, partners, and the wider Moab community: your support, curiosity, and commitment to local history continue to shape everything we do. This year brought both challenges…
Join the Delicate Stitchers Quilt Guild the evening of Tuesday, December 2, at the Moab Museum for the opening of the annual quilt show. This year’s theme is “Magnificent Moab Medallions,” a quilting style derived from Persian, Indian, and Chinese Carpets which appeared during the 16th-18th centuries. The technique made its way to the Americas,…
Thanks to funding from USHRAB and the Utah Historical Society, we’ve put together a series of conservation-focused Utah Archives Month-specific videos featuring objects from the collection and particular professional techniques to help you maintain your historical ties and legacies. Check out some of those techniques down below: Earlier this year, the Museum received a uranium-related…
Submissions are due by October 10th for the Moab Chamber of Commerce’s nominations for Citizen, Business, and Nonprofit of the Year! We’d love you to advocate for our wonderful small town museum by nominating us HERE! Why might we be so deserving, you may ask? Well, if you’ve seen us around at Museum programs, at…
Due to the closure of the Federal Government, our talk in tandem with Canyonlands Natural History Association (CNHA), “Uranium Roads to Red Rock Tourism,” has been canceled. We hope to be back with this program offering at the MIC later this coming Spring. Stay tuned! For now, make sure to register for the other Uranium-themed…