Polshek Partnership has designed a new, 161,000-square-foot facility for the Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City. The $98 million project will enable the 45-year-old institution to better showcase its collection of fossils, rocks, minerals, and other artifacts. Presently, only 1 percent of the museum’s 1.2-million-piece collection is on display in its current location, the George Thomas Building on the University of Utah campus.
The new venue, also on the school campus, sits on a 17-acre site surrounded by 600 acres of protected desert. Nestled into a hillside overlooking the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, a popular recreational path, the building offers dramatic views of the Great Salt Lake Basin, Oquirrhs Mountains, and Kennecott copper mines, the largest copper mine in the world.
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