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Utah to Open State History Museum at North Capitol Building in June 2026

Utah Libraries Have You Covered (radio/podcast) · November 26, 2025
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Summary

The Department of Cultural and Community Engagement says a new state history museum with a collections facility in the North Capitol Building will open to the public in June 2026; the museum will house the Mormon Meteor and will open a museum store earlier in January.

Kat Potter, deputy director of the Utah Department of Cultural and Community Engagement (CCE), told listeners of the Utah Libraries Have You Covered program that the new State History Museum will open in June 2026 in the North Capitol Building on Capitol Hill.

Potter said CCE has built a state-of-the-art collections facility in the building's basement to better preserve historical and artistic materials that were previously stored in the older Rio Grande Depot. "We will have this beautiful state-of-the-art…

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