USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum

The Prehistoric Museum, USU-Eastern, previously known as the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, is a historical center authorize by the American Alliance of Museums situated in Price, Utah. The gallery tries to advance open comprehension of ancient times through interpretive displays, instructive projects, accumulations, and research. The historical center is situated close numerous paleontological and archeological destinations in a locale known as Castle Country, outstandingly in the San Rafael Swell and adjacent gulches all through the Book Cliffs region, for example, Nine Mile Canyon and Range Creek Canyon.

The Prehistoric Museum was set up in 1961 as a helpful exertion by the previous College of Eastern Utah and the network of Price. On May 8, 1961, the Board of Regents set up the historical center.

Around then, financing for the gallery was provided by the topography office at the school. The exhibition hall formally opened to general society on June 3, 1961, on the second floor of the Price Municipal Building in a little changed over meeting room. The exhibition hall's national accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums recognizes it as less than 10% of historical centers are granted such accreditation. As a state and government vault for both paleontological and archeological accumulations, the exhibition hall's property incorporate in excess of 700,000 archeological antiques, including one of the biggest and most huge accumulations in the nation. A considerable lot of these ancient rarities, for example, those left by the indigenous Fremont individuals, have turned out to be widely acclaimed. The exhibition hall's paleontological gathering incorporates type examples and fossil discovers new to science.