Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, Folk arts museum in Liberty Park, Salt Lake City, United States.
The Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts is housed in a two-story adobe building with traditional architecture in Liberty Park. It holds contemporary folk art pieces created by artists from Utah communities.
Isaac Chase emigrated to Utah with Mormon pioneers in 1847 and built a sawmill and gristmill on the outskirts of Salt Lake City. In the early 1850s, Brigham Young partnered in his prospering milling business, and Chase built this two-story adobe house near the mills at the centre of a 110-acre farm. In 1882 the farm was gifted to the State of Utah and became Liberty Park.
The museum displays works from Native American peoples and immigrant communities who have made Utah their home. These pieces show how different groups express their cultural identity through handmade objects and traditional skills.
The museum sits just west of the centre of Liberty Park, which stretches between 900 South and 1300 South and between 500 East and 700 East in Salt Lake City. Inside are three permanent galleries and one temporary gallery, plus an archive of fieldwork recordings and photographs. Annual concerts and hands-on workshops supplement the rotating exhibits.
It is the only museum in the United States dedicated to displaying a state-owned collection of contemporary folk art made by the state's own residents. The collection began as the Utah State Folk Arts Collection, housed here permanently since 1987.
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