Big stories, accomplishments, and updates
Find annual updates from the Moab Museum team and learn how we continue to work towards our mission: to share stories. We seek to educate and inspire our community about the cultural and natural history of Moab and the Canyonlands region. We do so while maintaining our vision to change how we see the world around us, from here to beyond, for everyone who calls here home or is just passing through, building pride, compassion and humility along the way.
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2024 Report to Community
Downtown Moab and the Moab Museum sit at the heart of a community with roots that stretch back hundreds of years, rich in stories that span the Colorado Plateau. The past year was marked by the exploration of these stories and the continued transformation of the Museum. What was once simply a home for artifacts of historical, scientific, artistic, and cultural significance has become an active hub for arts and culture in Moab.
We opened 2024 with A Moab Prison Camp: Japanese American Incarceration in Grand County, a lesser-known and difficult aspect of our county’s past. While hosting that exhibition we prepped for a fall opening of Moab’s Uranium Legacy, but coming to understand the complexity of the story, we chose instead to revisit and expand A Moab Prison Camp in the fall, bringing heightened focus to lived experience, research, and interpretive framework for both exhibitions. The year brought to light stories of community pain, of pride and civic involvement, of artistic expression—stories that have brought our community closer together.
Looking ahead, envision the Museum becoming more of a community resource than ever before. We will continue the deep collaboration vital to keeping our stories alive and our mission grounded. We look forward to welcoming you downtown and to hearing and sharing your stories.
- Tara Beresh, Allie Donnell, Diego Velasquez and Megan Vickery
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2023 Report to Community
“Everything is held together with stories,” writes Barry Lopez in Winter Count. The Moab Museum knows that the stories of Southeastern Utah and the Colorado Plateau are told in many ways, by many voices, for a multitude of reasons, so we strive to interweave history, geology, archaeology, and artistic expression to help our community and audiences connect the past to the present – and to possible futures. This year’s exhibitions, programs, and special events were designed to “hold together” our shared history, so on behalf of the Board of Trustees, staff, and volunteers, I’m honored to present this report to our members, friends, and community.
–Forrest Rodgers, Former Executive Director
Previous Moab Museum Reports
2022
2021
2018-2020
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