The Pioneer Memorial Museum

Free Admission

Cameras, video recorders, cell phone cameras, or personal and/or portable scanners aren't allowed in any part of the Museum or carriage house.

The Pioneer Memorial Museum (also known as DUP Museum) located at 300 N Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah, houses the world's largest collection of artifacts on one subject.

Museum Hours: (No admission fee - Contributions are welcomed.)

• Fall / Winter / Spring (Sep-May)
• Mon-Sat 9AM-5PM
• Summer (Jun - Aug)
• Mon-Sat 9AM-5PM; Sun 1PM-5PM

History Department: Find documents about your pioneer ancestors! Please come in before 3PM. The History Department is not open Saturday or Sundays.

• Schedule - (Jan-Dec)
• Mon-Fri, 9AM-4PM.

Photograph Department: Please Call ahead (801-532-6479 ext. 206) if you are coming to visit. Call us to insure that someone will be there.

• Schedule - (Jan-Dec)
• generally open Mon, Tues, & Thurs 9:30 AM-4PM.

Transportation & Accessibility: Bus stop within 1 block

Wheelchair accessibility:Full

Restrictions: The use of cameras, video cameras, or personal scanners is not allowed in any part of the Museum or carriage house.

Directions: Directions to the Museum ~ 300 North Main Street Salt Lake City

The Pioneer Memorial Museum is noted as the world's largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject, and features displays and collections of memorabilia from the time the earliest settlers entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake until the joining of the railroads at a location known as Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869.

As you enter the Pioneer Memorial Museum, you literally walk back into history. Here are the belongings of a hardy pioneer people who migrated 2,000 miles west across the plains from Nauvoo, Illinois, and from all parts of the world to seek religious freedom and to build a great city of Zion in the Salt Lake Basin.

 

The artifacts of the pioneers may surprise you. While the museum displays plenty of necessary objects fashioned out of the scarce resources available in Utah, the pioneers also leave a material record of remarkably ornate decorative arts. They carefully tended their luxury items -- as small and delicate as crystal salters or as large and cumbersome as pianos -- all the way across the continent. The museum displays many of these treasures that reminded them of "home" or their loved ones they were leaving behind. Also, pioneer craftsman were astoundingly adaptable to the materials available in Utah, making gorgeous pine furniture and painting it in a fashion that makes it look like more expensive wood, such as mahogany. Early Utahns also owned some of the finest goods available at the time, brought in either with ox team or by railroad later. From rugged, homemade utilitarian objects to elaborate Victorian decor, you can see the full range of the material record of the resilient pioneers at the Pioneer Memorial Museum.

 

 

Daughters of Utah Pioneers, founded in 1901, is actively working to preserve the history and artifacts of its Pioneer ancestors. The Pioneer Memorial Museum is located at 300 North Main Street, in Salt Lake City, Utah. This museum has the finest collection of pioneer memorabilia in the Intermountain West. Paintings by noted Utah artists, guns, quilts, flags, furniture, books, hand-made clothing, and too many items to enumerate are found here.

 

 

The museum is open to the public without charge.