The Deseret Museum BY LILA CARPENTER E U B A N K S
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For a time the Deseret Museum ethnological and historical collections were housed in the Bureau of Information Building, left, on south side of Temple Square. USHS collections.
1 HE FIRST MUSEUM IN U T A H OPENED in early December 1869. Located in a pioneer home, it was at first called the Home Museum, sometimes referred to as the Salt Lake Museum, but through popular assent and usage became officially known as the Deseret Museum throughout the half-century that it existed as a significant educational and cultural institution. Mrs. Eubanks is a genealogist and former elementary schoolteacher.
