The College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum offers the best of both worlds

The College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah is less than 2 hours from Salt Lake City. Well worth the drive, the museum offers extensive dinosaur and archaeological exhibits. The museum boasts signature species of dinosaurs that were discovered in this area. Operating multiple dinosaur quarries, the museum offers a unique chance for visitors to see new discoveries first hand.

What makes our museum so unique is that what you see here truly originated here. Just a stones throw from the prehistoric museum are the richest archaeological, paleontological and geological wonders found anywhere. The museum serves as a vessel to take you back to those prehistoric times with exhibits that explain the processes that created prehistory. Two halls comprise the bulk of the museum, the Hall of Man, and the Hall of Dinosaurs, each hall is two levels with its own spectacular view and a rotating art gallery separating the halls on the upper level. The lower level separation consists of the Gift Shop and the Castle Country Regional Information Center (CCRIC) where you can browse a vast array of free brochures and literature, or be assisted with trip plans, itineraries or local attraction suggestions in a one on one setting with an Information Specialist.

The National Association of Museums has accredited the museum, a right that only four other museums in the state of Utah share. The only accredited museum located off the Wasatch Front, and a state and federal repository, the museum has laid a claim to fame from meager beginnings. On June 3, 1961 with scanty finds from local basements, garages and one complete Allosaurus skeleton, the museum opened its doors to the public, and the rest has quite literally been prehistory!

The College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum thrills travelers:
"In Price we toured the College of Eastern Utah (CEU) Prehistoric Museum. It's a must-see large, excellent museum, with two-story overviews of grazing dinosaurs, exhibits, and photo displays of maps, geology and more. The experts, museums, mammoth displays and dinosaur quarries, and dinosaur skeletons, plant fossils help visitors imagine the time when Utah was alive with prehistoric life and vegetation." Rachel Rome from Massachusetts, Travel Editor at the Planet Magazine and a regular contributor to AAA Horizons Magazine