Museum on Main Street
- Compilation of Museum on Main Street exhibition imagery, courtesy Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Museum on Main Street (MoMS) is a Smithsonian outreach program that engages small town audiences and brings attention to underserved rural communities. Utah Humanities collaborates with the Smithsonian and local partners throughout the state to bring traveling exhibitions, educational resources, and programming to Utah communities.
Smithsonian MoMS exhibitions are toured in Utah exclusively through Utah Humanities. As the tour coordinator, our goal for each statewide tour is to engage diverse audiences in meaningful ways, convey under-told stories, and help local hosts leverage the experience in ways that benefit their own organization over the long term. The MoMS program provides a catalyst for host communities to collect, celebrate, and showcase their unique local history and traditions within the national exhibition theme. Through this unique collaboration, host organizations regularly draw in new audiences, establish new partnerships, and find new ways to use the project to meet their own institutional and community goals.
In each host community, the Smithsonian exhibition is featured alongside local companion exhibits, tours, workshops, speakers, as well as school and other public humanities programming.
For more information, contact Megan van Frank at
Exhibition Tours in Utah
Museum on Main Street is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.