Brigham City Museum of Art & History


The Brigham City Museum of Art & History, also known as the BCMG or, formerly, the Brigham City Museum-Gallery, is an art museum and history museum in Brigham City, Utah. The museum is a department of Brigham City Corporation, but also has a non-profit foundation, the Box Elder Museum Foundation, Inc.
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History

The museum opened in 1970, in the Brigham City Community Center building. The building was planned to be a community center, but plans were underway to include a museum in the basement portion of the museum before it opened. In 1969 a precursor to the museum was briefly open on Main Street, celebrating the centennial of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
In the early years, exhibitions changed monthly and included a wide variety of exhibitions, generally drawn from personal collections of board members or friends of the museum. Exhibition areas included art, history, and natural history.
In 2009, a satellite museum, the Box Elder Museum of Natural History, opened in the King building, and moved to the Hervin Bunderson Center in 2010.
In 2014, the museum won the American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award of Merit for the project Outside the Homeland: The Intermountain Indian School. The project included a 2012 exhibition of the same name, an online version of the exhibition, oral histories with former students of the school, and public programs on the school.

Collections

The museum's permanent collections include artifacts, photographs, and documents related to the pioneer settlement of Brigham City and Shoshone occupations in the area, as well as historical items from throughout Box Elder County from settlement to the present. The museum also has a collection of fine art, including works by a variety of Utah artists. Some of the collections have been digitized and are available online.

Special exhibits

The museum hosts a variety of temporary exhibits, each lasting 4–12 weeks. These include temporary exhibits curated by the museum's staff, as well as traveling exhibits sourced through other museums or organizations. Previous exhibits have included displays of works by various Utah artists, including Minerva Teichert, Jim Stettler, and others, as well as Earth From Space. Each summer, the museum curates a quilt exhibit with quilts from throughout the world, with featured quilters from all over.

Programs

Programs have varied over the years, but include a historic home tour, special tours for schools, scout groups, etc.,