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The Natural History Museum of Utah was created by the Utah State Legislature and placed at the University of Utah  with  specific responsibilities  to: recover, manage and care for collections from State lands  collect and exhibit natural history objects  …

    The Museum's Archaeology Collection spans the Holocene from about ca. 11,000 B.C. to the historic period.  It represents 5,300 known sites and occupies over 9,600 cubic feet of storage and provides the foundation for our understanding the course of …

  The Museum's Entomology Collection includes 200,000 specimens that showcase the breathtaking diversity of insect life. * If you have a bug specimen in Utah that you'd like identified, please contact the  Salt Lake Bug Lovers  Facebook page. For any …

    The Museum's Ethnographic Collection is composed primarily of artifacts produced by Utah Native American groups: Goshute, Navajo, Paiute, Shoshone and Ute, or are from neighboring tribes that had significant ties with the indigenous people of Utah. …

Established in the late 1800s, the Garrett Herbarium includes more than 135,000 specimens and is an important regional and national resource for information on plant biodiversity.   Fun Facts No other collection in the world has such a complete …

The Museum's Malacology Collection includes approximately 40,000 specimens , including all six classes of marine mollusca .   Fun Facts The personal collection of Janke Kolff , donated to the Museum in 1976 , provided the foundation for the current …