Arts & Culture
A merged symphony-and-opera company found in only a handful of American cities, a university natural history museum built on Utah's own fossil record, and the film festival that put Park City on the map for four decades -- now packing up for Boulder starting in 2027.
Kimball Art Center
The Kimball Art Center is Park City's dedicated nonprofit contemporary-art institution, occupying a historic garage building on Main Street from the town's mining-era commercial district. It runs free public exhibitions and hands-on studio classes year-round, giving Park City an art-specific venue distinct from its winter film-festival identity; confirm the current exhibition and class schedule directly with the center.
Natural History Museum of Utah
The Natural History Museum of Utah, part of the University of Utah, moved into its current Rio Tinto Center building on the university's Salt Lake City campus in 2011. The museum's paleontology holdings draw heavily on Utah's own fossil record -- the state's public lands, including Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, have produced an unusually large share of newly named North American dinosaur species over the past two decades, giving the museum direct access to specimens most regional natural history museums don't have in their own backyard.
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival, founded in Salt Lake City in 1978 by Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, moved its screenings to Park City's Main Street venues in 1981 and ran there every January for more than four decades. In 2025, the Sundance Institute's board selected Boulder, Colorado as the festival's new host city starting with the 2027 edition, ending Park City's run as the festival's home after the January 2026 festival. Confirm the current festival year's venue and dates directly with the Sundance Institute.
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
Utah Symphony, founded in 1940, and Utah Opera, founded in 1978, merged into a single organization in 2002 -- Utah Symphony | Utah Opera -- one of a small number of American performing-arts organizations that operate a full symphony orchestra and a full opera company under one roof rather than as separate institutions. The symphony performs at downtown Salt Lake City's Abravanel Hall, named for Maurice Abravanel, who led the orchestra for 32 years (1947-1979) and built much of its national reputation; the opera performs primarily at the Capitol Theatre a few blocks away.