Lehi, UT, 84043
801-768-7180
URL : http://www.hutchingsmuseum.org
overview : The John Hutchings Museum is made up of mostly the personal collections of John Hutchings. It has most of his Egg collection (once one of the top five biggest personal collections in the world). Animals that he has taxidermied, including an albino redtail hawk and mate. A large rock and mineral room some from the Timpanogos Cave, because he was one of the people who found it. The Fossil and shell room has some helpfull information about cone shells and corpalite as well as some other stuff.There is a room that is strictly for Lehi and the sugar factory that used to be there, and a room for the pioneers and the stuff they brought out with them. There is a room dedicated soley to the native americans with a lot of neat things like a necklace of old traded german coins and lots of arowheads and potery. The last room is the gun room in it are the guns of Butch Casidy and Porter Rockwell. as well as a few others with other interesting stories. also this room leads into the old lehi jail that has a funny story about the guy who built it .. But you have to go there to get all of the cool stories, if you like History that is.
hours (subject to change) : Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.
topics : natural history, history, general, prehistoric, ancient, 19th, century, 20th, American, oceanic, native, archaeology, dinosaurs, fossils, jewelry, local history, minerology, oceanography, railroading, religion, zoology, geology
