USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Natural history museum in Price, United States
The USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum is a natural history museum in Price that displays fossils, archaeological finds, and rocks from the region. The space features complete dinosaur skeletons, ancient tools, and objects left behind by cultures that lived here long ago.
The museum was founded in 1961 to gather and display prehistoric discoveries from eastern Utah. Over the decades, it has become an important place that preserves the story of the earliest people and dinosaurs in this area.
The museum displays artifacts from the Fremont culture, including clay figurines, baskets, and pottery that show how people lived here hundreds of years ago. These objects tell stories about the daily life and skills of the region's earliest inhabitants.
The museum is located downtown and is easy to reach. Visitors can explore the exhibits at their own pace, and there are interactive areas, especially for children to touch and learn.
The museum holds over 750,000 prehistoric specimens from across Utah, and its archaeology collection of more than 700,000 artifacts is among the largest in the country. Fieldwork begun in 1990 has yielded 12 new dinosaur species and over 7,000 paleontologic specimens.
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