Utah State Hospital Museum — Attraction in Provo

Loved visiting this museum. Lots of interesting artifacts with plenty of accompanying info and stories. The guide was super friendly and helpful but still gave us space to experience the museum for ourselves—she even gave my son a cookie! It’s a small museum—we spent about thirty min here but if you read everything you’d probably be there longer. There are some troubling exhibits (restraining devices, etc.) but overall I’d say this is a place worth visiting. Since it’s lesser known and out of the way, it’s never very busy, which is nice. I took off a star because the hours...

Wonderful museum! The guide has worked here for quite some time and tells many stories from her own point of view. I love how transparent the hospital and museum is about it's history and how they have drastically improved in their methods. If you're looking to gather information on how insane asylums were ran 100 years ago, this is the...

An interesting, though small museum that explores the history of what was then the Utah Insane Asylum as well as the (often sad) treatment of mentally unwell individuals from the late 1800's to today. The curator Janina was very knowledgeable and kind....