America's 15 Best Small-Town Art Museums
"Utah welcomed its first fine arts museum in 1903 — seven short years after it achieved statehood — when two local artists donated works to Springville High School, a Spanish colonial revival structure in a small town that's since been nicknamed Art City. Born to Mormon parents, Cyrus E. Dallin sculpted portraits of Native Americans as well as the famous gold-plated Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake Temple, while Swiss-born Impressionist painter John Hafen was enamored with the rural Utah landscape. The Springville Museum of Art nearly doubled in size in 2004, and in 2009, it grew even more with the addition of an outdoor sculpture garden. Though Utah-based art still makes up about 80% of the 2,500-piece collection, you'll also encounter American realist and Soviet realist works." - Travel + Leisure Editors
