Explore past temporary exhibitions hosted by the UMFA.
The UMFA’s digital exhibitions highlight the past through dynamic curatorial exploration of the collections of both the Museum and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. Learn from the comfort of your own home today.
Mining the West: Primary Elements is a digital exhibition that explores the technological, economic, social, and environmental aspects of mining in the American West from the nineteenth century through today. The exhibition features art from the UMFA and primary source material from the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, with additional perspectives and curricula material created by the students, staff, and faculty of the UofU and beyond.
This digital exhibition documents a physical exhibition of the same name that was installed in the UMFA’s ACME Lab beginning in March 2020. Utah Women Working for Better Days! celebrates voting rights anniversaries in 2020, including the 150th anniversary of Utah women casting the first votes in the United States under a women’s equal suffrage law.
In this digital exhibition journey to the time that Spiral Jetty took shape while, on the other end of Great Salt Lake, the University of Utah’s landscape underwent its own kind of transformation.
