Pioneer Day at the DUP Museum

Our family has a yearly tradition of visiting the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum on Pioneer Day. The ladies who run the museum feature numerous pioneer-related, child-friendly activities, such as making a pioneer doll, coloring, playing music with a saw, blacksmithing, weaving, making button toys, crafting a miniature handcart, musical performances, and a pioneer royalty. Here are a few of the pictures I took during our visit. (I also took pictures of some of Dan Weggeland's artwork on display in the museum, which is on another post.)

 Front of the museum. Statue of Eliza R. Snow.

 "Water Hole on the Trail," by Minerva K. Teichert

 Joseph Smith announcing the pioneers of 1847

 Orin Porter Rockwell

 Stone carved by Edward Lloyd Parry

 John Neff's pocketwatch

 Miniature of the Manti Temple

  John and Mary Barr Neff

 Miniature of the Salt Lake Temple

 The sign on the piano reads as follows: "Abraham Hunsaker's piano was brought over the Pioneer Trail in a wagon, by Abraham Hunsaker and his sons, about 1862. To transport the piano they had to take off the legs so the body could sit flat in the wagon. In eastern Wyoming they apparently had problems and buried the piano, wrapping it four deep with buffalo robes, using the fur side to cushion the piano. The next year they went back and retrieved the instrument." 

Art of Dan Weggeland

I love the art of Dan Weggeland, a notable 19th century LDS artist in Utah. Many of his pieces are on display at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum in Salt Lake City. On a recent visit to the museum I took several pictures of his artwork. (Click on an image to enlarge it. Use the arrow keys to scroll through.)

    

  

Wilford Woodruff's Villa

Here are some pictures of the exterior of Wilford Woodruff's villa, located at approximately 1600 S. 500 E. in Salt Lake City. While this home is not open for tours, the neighboring farm house is. (Click on each image to see a bigger version.)

  

Wilford Woodruff's Farm House

Each year a First Encampment Celebration is held at 1700 S. 500 E. in Salt Lake City, to commemorate the arrival of those who first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847 -- two days before Brigham Young arrived. (Here is an informative video of the First Encampment.) As part of the celebration, tours are given of the farm house of LDS prophet and President Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898), who lived about a block north of the encampment. Here are some pictures of the farm house (click on an image to enlarge it):