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NHMU is honored to house The Twin Rocks Trading Post Collection, a collection of 250 remarkable baskets from the Utah Strip of the Navajo Nation, some of which are on display in our Native Voices gallery and Collections Wall. Read the story of how they came to be a new art form.
The Navajo ceremonial baskets on display in our Native Voices gallery and Collections Wall mark an incredible moment in art history. Read part II of our blog post series on the Twin Rocks Trading Post Collection.
Lola Reyes is an incredible example of a Utahn brought up in humble circumstances who found the confidence, courage, and persistence to succeed in life, thanks in part to her five-year experience in NHMU’s Youth-Teaching-Youth program.
Allison Wolfe, a graduate student in zooarchaeology and awardee of NHMU’s Summer Internship, is identifying tens of thousands of bird bones from Homestead Cave, home of the most fine-grained small animal record in the Western USA.
Gila monsters are the stuff of mythology, like a gorgon or a hippogriff, yet these reclusive reptiles are fascinating regardless of the tall tales. NHMU visitors can see one up close during the Power of Poison exhibit.
Bryn Dentinger, NHMU’s Curator for Mycology, is on a mission to study the gut microbiomes of herbivorous animals in the Intermountain West. He’ll be cataloguing the biodiversity of fungal microbes and providing a baseline for future comparative studies.
Natalia Wilkins-Tyler is a Salt Lake City-based scientific illustrator who has accomplished a number of fantastic illustrations for NHMU. Read about her profession and see a video of her in action.
If you think your spring cleaning is difficult, try our Past Worlds Gallery on for size. Our exhibits team recently spent the better part of a week spiffing up all of our dinosaur skeletons.
Education and entertainment mix seamlessly through the power of museum theater, two great examples of which are happening at NHMU through April 1, 2017: Poison Live! and the Extreme Plants Traveling Sideshow.
When the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology came to Salt Lake City in October 2016, we got a chance to speak with some noted paleontologists about their work. Here's NHMU's Randy Irmis on imaging fossils and collaborative teams.
![[image] Weaving a Revolution: Contemporary Navajo Baskets](/sites/default/files/weaver-blogheader3.jpg)
![[image] A Renaissance in Navajo Basket Art](/sites/default/files/HornedToad-700px.jpg)
![[image] Lola Reyes: Animator, Artist, NHMU Star](/sites/default/files/Lola3-blogheader.jpg)
![[image] The Cave That Holds a Million Bones](/sites/default/files/AllisonWolfe-landscape-blogheader2.jpg)
![[image] Gila: the Monster, the Myth, the Legend](/sites/default/files/Gila.jpg)
![[image] Fungi in the Gut: Bryn Dentinger’s Look at Microbiomes](/sites/default/files/Bryn-with-microscope-blogheader.jpg)
![[image] The Art and Details of Scientific Illustration](/sites/default/files/allosaurus-skull-sketch-blogheader.jpg)
![[image] Dusting our Dirty Dinosaurs](/sites/default/files/Geoffrey-blogheader_0.jpg)
![[image] The Theater of Poison – Two Live Performances](/sites/default/files/PoisonLive-blogheader.jpg)
![[image] A Conversation with NHMU's Randy Irmis](/sites/default/files/Randy-headerdimensions.jpg)