Zion Human History Museum, Zion NP

Tourists traveling to Utah must pay a visit to the Zion National Park, a picturesque area conserving numerous unique kinds of flora and fauna. But a visit to the park is not complete without coming to the Zion Human History Museum. The museum displays different artifacts used by humans, who inhabited the region at one time.

The Zion Human History Museum displays different objects that the early settlers used to hunt, cultivate and gather food in this harsh and arid area. A 20-minute orientation of this stunning region is given to visitors through an intriguing film. This orientation gives vivid details of how humans interacted with the horrid climate of the Zion Canyon and also reveals how they finally got adapted to the harshness.

The film brings out how this desolate land was later coveted by American Fur Traders, Spanish missionaries and other settlers who introduced domestic livestock and plants. Local Pauite tribes were decimated when they came in contact with humans as they contacted fatal diseases. The museum records the extermination of the primary settlers when they were introduced to the more civilized forms of life.

The museum displays the Cable Mountain, early settlers, the building of the Zion-Mt. Carmel Highway and Tunnel (1931) and also has bookstore and a poster store.