"But, even with all of these museums scattered around the Beehive State, it is still bizarre to think that Utah is home to the world’s largest collection of artifacts on a single subject. And what is that subject you may be asking? Well, the pioneers of course!" the Only In Your State says.

"Located on Main Street in Salt Lake City is the Pioneer Memorial Museum, also known as the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum. This museum is known for housing the world’s largest collection of artifacts on a single subject – the pioneers.

"As you walk through this museum, you’ll find thousands of articles, displays, collections, and more that tell a story and showcase the life of these courageous individuals decades ago."

"The Pioneer Memorial Museum makes the bold claim to host "the world's largest collection of artifacts on one subject" - that subject being stuff that pioneers brought with them to Utah! It's certainly a very impressive collection: many thousands of artifacts spread across six separate floors, covering all manner of items from roughly the 1840s to the 1870s," the Niche Museums says.

"Don't skip the basement, which has both a two-headed lamb and an enormous carved eagle standing guard over a collection of sewing machines.

"There's also plenty of Mormon history here, including a wagon that served as Brigham Young's council chamber, speaking platform, and home for the long trip to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847."

"The Pioneer Memorial Museum (also known as DUP Museum) located at 300 N Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah, houses the world's largest collection of artifacts on one subject. Admission is free of charge. Research area and photos are closed on Saturday," the official website says.

" The Pioneer Memorial Museum is noted as the world's largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject, and features displays and collections of memorabilia from the time the earliest settlers entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake until the joining of the railroads at a location known as Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869.

"As you enter the Pioneer Memorial Museum, you walk back into history. Here are the belongings of a hardy pioneer people who migrated 2,000 miles west across the plains from Nauvoo, Illinois, and from all parts of the world to seek religious freedom and to build a great city in the Salt Lake Valley and surrounding areas."

"The Pioneer Memorial Museum is sort of like the headquarters for all Daughters of the Utah Pioneer museums. This museum is most famous for housing the wagon that carried Brigham Young into the Salt Lake Valley. There is also a really cool horse-pulled fire engine that has been beautifully restored. (These were obviously my boys favorite things to see)," the Utah's Adventure Family says.

"There is an old theater seat and curtain from the Salt Lake Theater. We enjoyed viewing many old pianos including one that was buried by a family crossing the plains. (They later retrieved it after getting settled in Salt Lake). We also saw the original eagle gate and a replica of the golden spike that connected the transcontinental railroad. Those are the big items to look for, but there are thousands of small items such as newspapers, books, clothes, shoes, tools, toys, and much more.

"The best part–it’s FREE. They will accept donations (which we gladly gave) and with your donation you can take home a small book which includes some amazing pioneer stories and pictures from the museum."

"The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers proudly proclaims the museum as “the world’s largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject,” the National Park Service says.

"The claim is easy to believe: this museum is packed with thousands of objects both mundane and fascinating, all part of Mormon history. Allow at least a couple of hours to visit.

"Objects of particular note include an Army supply wagon captured from Albert Sidney Johnston’s troops by the Mormon militia during the 1857 Utah War; and three feathers from the “Miracle of the Quail,” when a flock of quail fluttered into an encampment of starving Mormon refugees on the Mississippi River in 1846."

"The Pioneer Memorial Museum is in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States[1] and is operated by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers," the Wikipedia says.

"The Eliza Roxey Snow statue and Ever Pressing Forward statue are installed outside of the building."

"The Museum has been recognized as one of the world’s largest collections of nineteenth-century pioneer artifacts. It contains Mormon memorabilia, period furniture, and photographs," the BYU Journeys says.

"A few of the items that can be found in the museum include:

• Unique canes of various individuals, including Orson Hyde and Brigham Young
• Willard Richard’s clock
• Portraits of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young painted in Nauvoo
• The main stage curtain from the old Salt Lake Theater
• Photographs of numerous pioneers
• Pioneer clothing (including the clothes worn by Orson Pratt the day he entered the Salt Lake Valley)
• A musical organ transported across the plains by George Careless upon which he composed several hymns sung by the Latter-day Saints today...."

"You'll find relics from the early days at Daughters of Utah Pioneers (DUP) museums throughout Utah, but the Pioneer Memorial Museum is by far the biggest," the Lonely Planet says.

"The vast, four-story treasure trove is like Utah's attic, with a taxidermied two-headed lamb and human-hair artwork in addition to more predictable artifacts."

"The Pioneer Memorial Museum is the final resting place for many of the objects that pioneers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints carried with them on their westward journey from Nauvoo, Illinois, and the museum strangely boasts that it is the world’s largest collection of artifacts on one particular subject," the Atlas Obscura says.

"The museum is operated by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, an organization devoted to remembering that fateful trek across the nation.

"Behind the glass cases are objects that tell of the everyday domestic life that the Latter-Day Saint migrants brought with them on their trek—quilts, pianos, guns, dresses, and more. Some of the items are somewhat unexpected, such as Buddhist sutra scrolls in the manuscript room, brought by Chinese and other Asian laborers working on the transcontinental railroad, or a Kris dagger brought by a pioneer, originally from Indonesia."

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