It provides a general interpretive look at the history of Utah, focusing on cultures, landscape, technology, and change. Other temporary exhibitions are housed in the Society's Board and West rooms. The exhibit Utah at the Crossroads looks at the general history of Utah, and focuses on people and the land.
Artifacts present the three dimensional documents of Utah's past.
These multitude of objects become mediators between the past and present. They connect visitors with the past, as do the wide and varied selection of historic photographs. Utah at the Crossroads is an interpretive exhibit that hopes to add to the overall understanding of Utah and its past . They roamed the vast area now known as Utah in nomadic groups and hunted large animals with primitive weapons chipped from stone. Some 4,500 years later, groups of archaic people lived in caves and rock shelters.