The third floor is very special. In the 1940s when the women were collecting artifacts to be placed in the museum, DUP ladies answered enthusiastically. Many groups of DUP women (called Camps) sponsored cases in which they paid for the actual case and then provided the artifacts inside. The result was a wide variety of artifacts in each Camp’s case. They are time capsules for the artifacts each group of ladies felt were important enough to be saved to share with the future. There is also a room on this floor devoted to the grand 1947 Centennial Celebration that includes the three dresses worn by the royalty of that year. Other themed cases include quilts, canes (including one of the famous coffin canes made from the temporary casket of Joseph Smith), paisley shawls, a pioneer school room, a silk room highlighting the silk industry in Utah, and a music room that includes a Welsh harp played by blind harpist pioneer Thomas Davis Giles.





The Daughters of Utah Pioneers maintain numerous satellite museums around the state of Utah and beyond. Click here for a list of other DUP (satellite) Museums.
A Glimpse of the Pioneer Memorial Museum
