The mission of the Utah Division of State History/Utah State Historical Society is to

preserve and share Utah's past for the present and future.

We have four main areas: archaeology, history, preservation, and the Utah History Research Center.

• Our archaeologists' goal is to help archaeologists and the public preserve, study, and learn about Utah's amazing archaeological resources.
• The history section goal is to preserve, study, and learn about Utah history. We publish the Utah Historical Quarterly, which gives historians a place to publish their research.
• The preservation section's goal is to help people and cities preserve old buildings and re-use them in great new ways.
• The Utah History Research Center preserves books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and more, and they share them with the public in our Research Center. Anybody can come in and find some wonderful things.

What You Can Do

• Respect any archaeological or historical things you find on hikes. Do not climb on sites, do not in any way touch rock art, do not take things, do not disturb things. Each archaeological site is like a very valuable, irreplaceable book of family history. Once it is destroyed, the information is lost forever. Once rock art is destroyed, the beauty is lost forever.
• You can help us preserve history by interviewing people on tape (oral history) so we have their memories. You can help organize your family history. You can ask your parents or grandparents if they have any photographs, journals, or manuscripts that they could donate to us.
• You can urge people to save old buildings and houses instead of tearing them down.