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Best known for Jurassic-era dinosaur skeletons; also features several exhibits related to Utah's landforms and earliest human inhabitants.
The Natural History Museum of Utah is a museum located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The museum shows exhibits of natural history subjects, with an emphasis on Utah and the Intermountain West. The mission of the museum is to illuminate the natural world and the place of humans within it. A new building, named the Rio Tinto Center, opened in November 2011. The museum is part of the University of Utah and is located in the university's Research Park.
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The university's main indoor venue, home to men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, and women's gymnastics. Basketball history buffs may recognize it as the site of the 1979 NCAA men's basketball Final Four; the championship game was the first meeting between all-time greats Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (Magic was on the winning side that time).
Marking the spot where Brigham Young is believed to have said "This is the place", the park's features include a monument to the Mormon settlers of the Salt Lake Valley and a re-creation of a Utah frontier village made of historical buildings that were transplanted from their original foundations. Demonstrations of frontier life take place here frequently.
The zoo is a 42-acre complex, with the largest exhibits featuring primates and elephants. There is also an independent aviary (Tracy Aviary) in Liberty Park, and an aquarium (Loveland Living Planet Aquarium) in the south end of the county.
5,000 years worth of art history are on display at the UMFA, with over 18,000 works ranging from antiquity to more modern installations (though with little to no emphasis on abstract art). The museum runs a variety of public programs, such as artist talks, tours, films, and family art-making activities.
Home stadium of the University of Utah football team, and site of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics. The original location of the Olympic torch cauldron was covered over by a stadium expansion project. During this project, the cauldron was removed in 2020, refurbished, and reinstalled in a new plaza outside the southwest corner of the stadium in 2021.
High School Musical fans will get a kick out of seeing the real high school where the movie was filmed.