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Hutchings Museum Institute

Lehi, Utah

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist. 

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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.

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Coming from I-15, take exit 279. Go west on Main Street about a mile until you reach Center Street. The museum is one block north.

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