Located two blocks east of Main. From Main, turn east on Center Street. The museum is in the second block on the right, across the street from the Grand County Courthouse. The museum offers many exhibits that will help you understand the area and its history. A 50-square-foot three-dimensional relief map gives a bird’s-eye view of the area. The paleontology of the region is dramatically represented in the Mesozoic room containing fossils and interpretive material that explore the dinosaurs and geology of this area. And then there’s the human history. The archeology displays begin with the Archaic and end with the recent Utes and Navajos, including a large burden basket discovered in Moab by three teenagers in 1990.

The history exhibits contain artifacts of historic Moab. Here you can see a map of the Old Spanish Trail, railroad relics, a 1907 Moab kitchen, early blacksmith tools and the switchboard that handled all the telephone calls until the 1950s. At that time, Moab became the center of a uranium boom. The exhibits explain where uranium is found, how deposits are formed, the equipment used to find and mine it, as well as extensive photos of the era. Everyone loves the museum's "hands on" policy with many of the displays, especially the player piano. (It plays some lovely tunes, but it's hard to work!)