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All the United States Utah Lehi John Hutchings Museum

John Hutchings Museum

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

Lehi, Utah

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The museum is a collection put together by the Hutchings; this is the preserved top tier of their wedding cake. This place is weird and dope, love it.   dwighthurst / Atlas Obscura User
Super cool collection of bird’s eggs and facts about them.   dwighthurst / Atlas Obscura User
Whaaaat? This is in the men’s room. Place is off the hook..cool   dwighthurst / Atlas Obscura User
Great live animal collection   daniela fb5a7f34 / Atlas Obscura User
Actively curating new collections and exhibits   daniela fb5a7f34 / Atlas Obscura User
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In 1955, the town of Lehi, Utah acquired the extensive collection of local amateur naturalist John Hutchings and put it on display in the town's decaying WWI Veterans Memorial building.

One room houses Hutchings's mineral collection, another his bird eggs and taxidermy. Elsewhere in the small museum, there are dinosaur fossils, arrowheads, and Tahitian dresses. Over time, as Lehi residents have donated their own curious artifacts to the museum, its collection has grown outward in strange directions. One wall hosts a large display of toy fire trucks.

It's a hidden Wasatch Front gem, a cabinet of curiosities...you won't regret your visit!

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Coming from I-15, take exit 279. Go west on Main Street about a mile then take a right on Center Street.  The museum is housed in the historic Lehi Veteran's Memorial Building, you'll see it on the left about 100 feet after you turn right.

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November 25, 2008

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John Hutchings Museum
55 North Center St.
Lehi, Utah, 84043
United States
40.388526, -111.849187
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