Museum of Peoples and Cultures Open at BYU
The BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures recently moved to a new location at 2201 N. Canyon Road in Provo, Utah. A teaching museum affiliated with BYU's anthropology department, the free admission museum offers tours and other activities for youth and children, with a perspective on ancient cultures from around the world as well as from Utah. See mpc.byu.edu for more information or call 801-422-0020 (mpc.byu.edu).
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The BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures has a new home.
The Museum opened in a newly renovated space next door to Outdoors Unlimited at the corner of Canyon Road and 2230 North in Provo.
In celebration of the new space, the Museum is debuting a new exhibit telling the history of the Museum at BYU through important artifacts from the collections. Items from all over the world, from South and Central America to Asia and Polynesia and right here in Utah, will be on display in this exhibit.
The Museum is always free and is located at 2201 North Canyon Road. The regular hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
BYU's teaching museum, the Museum of Peoples and Cultures documents the diversity of human experience, is part of the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences and gives students hands-on opportunities to learn about every aspect of the museum experience.
Upcoming events will be posted on the Museum’s website: mpc.byu.edu.
Fun Free Things To Do In Provo
Provo “Welcome Home” is the third largest city in Utah and it is consistently recognized as one of the best places to live, work and play in the United States.
Bridal Veil Falls: Bridal Veil Falls is a 600-foot-tall waterfall nestled in the southern end of Provo Canyon. Easily reached by car or by trail on a bike or by foot. The best way to see Bridal Veil Falls is going to Bridal Veil Falls State Park. This spacious recreational area sits about 3.5 miles away from the entrance to Provo Canyon and has picnic tables, a paved pathway, and barbecue grills. There is a scenic walkway that passes in front of the waterfall. Great for kids and adults.
Museum of Peoples and Cultures: he Museum of Peoples and Cultures at Brigham Young University houses anthropological, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from past and present times. Located on BYU campus, the goal of the museum is to inspire BYU students and the public toward an understanding of and appreciation for people from around the world.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art: This is one of my favorite. I used to go here at least once a month when I lived in Provo because the exhibits were constantly rotating. It’s home to ten exhibition galleries, classrooms, an auditorium, a gift shop, and a theater.
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum. My husband has been going here since he was a kid and it is my daughters favorite museum in Provo. the museum contains a vast collection of plants and taxidermied animals. Each exhibit aims to educate the public about the bodies and behaviors of animals as well as ways for people to protect the environment. They also have live programs.
Hike the Y. An easy albeit steep trail runs from the east side of Provo up to the block Y on the mountain. It is a very popular hike for college students and families. From the Y you get great views of the Provo area and Utah Lake. I love this hike and have done it numerous times. Last time my husband went out of town though I tried to do it by myself with the two kids by myself and my daughter would have none of it. We didn’t even make it out of sight of the parking lot. At least it was a pretty day and we grabbed ice cream after at Mora Iced Creamery
Okay this one is not technically in Provo but excuse the liberty I am taking by suggesting you go see Roots of Knowledge is a permanent stained glass display completed in 2016 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, United States. The creation of the exhibit was designed and overseen by stained glass artists Tom Holdman and Cameron Oscarson. It took over 12 years and cost US$4.5 million to complete. Honestly if you are anywhere NEAR you Utah you should come see this. I have gone over a dozen times by myself, with people from out of town and with my family. I will continue to go every chance I get. Each time you see something different and miraculous.
Well there you have it. Thank you for watching our adventure. Now go out there, make your own and tell me all about it. Until next time. Keep traveling.
Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Provo - Utah
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The most beautiful places and sight in Provo.
Top 15. Best Tourist Attractions in Provo - Utah: Bridal Veil Falls, Brigham Young University, Provo Canyon, Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum, Museum of Art at Brigham Young University, Provo City Center Temple, Seven Peaks Resort Water Park, Hike The Y Trail, The Covey Center For The Arts, BYU Museum of Paleontology, Provo Beach, Crandall Historical Printing Museum, BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Utah Lake State Park, Provo River Parkway Trail
Utahraptor at the BYU Museum of Paleontology
Utah's own unique dinosaur species Utahraptor is now on display at BYU’s Museum of Paleontology. The unique specimen, cast from bones in the BYU collection, represents one of the most complete Utahraptor skeletons ever found. Utahraptor, which lived 125 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Period, was the world’s largest Dromaeosaurid “raptor.” Some speculate that Dromeaeusaurs, which are considered the closest to the ancestral line of birds, may have been covered in feathers. The first Utahraptor bones were unearthed in 1975 by BYU professor “Dinosaur Jim” Jensen at Dalton Wells Quarry near Moab, Utah. BYU has an extensive collection of bones from Utahraptor, some 350 bones and teeth representing 11 different individuals ranging from 3 to 14 feet in length. In 2018, the Utah State Legislature is considering a proposal to make Utahraptor the official state dinosaur.
The BYU Museum of Paleontology is located at 1683 N. Canyon Road in Provo, Utah, across from LaVell Edwards Stadium on the BYU campus. Museum admission is free but hours are limited – see for more information.
The BYU Student Experience - with Stacey Harkey
One of the world's largest private universities, Brigham Young University (in Provo, Utah) is a distinctive institution with nationally ranked academic programs, a multi-million dollar student mentoring initiative and a community that values Christian teachings and ideas, integrity and character.
BYU alumnus Stacey Harkey (Studio C) and BYU President Kevin J Worthen are featured in this 2015 video about the BYU campus, academics, mentoring, study abroad programs, the campus religious environment, student life and Division I athletic programs.
BYU is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and all faculty and students, even those who are not members of the LDS Church, commit to living the BYU honor code.
Grab a chocolate milk and celebrate the university that is proud to be at the top of the list of stone cold sober schools!
For information about BYU admissions, see byu.edu
BYU National Ranking Highlights:
Top Tier National Universities (U.S. News)
#2 Yield Rate (U.S. News)
#3 Accounting Program (U.S. News)
#4 Undergraduate Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneur)
#5 Grads to who on to earn PhDs( NSF Survey/Data)
#6 Graduates with least debt (U.S. News)
#7 Graduate Entrepreneurship (Entrepreneur)
#8 Best Value School (Forbes)
#13 Undergraduate Business Programs (U.S. News)
#15 Best Colleges (Money Magazine)
#17 MBA Program (Forbes)
#27 MBA Program (U.S. News)
#47 Research Universities (Forbes)
#1 Best University to Work For (Forbes)
See yfacts.byu.edu for more rankings and information about BYU
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Largest Fremont Structure Uncovered by BYU Archaeology Students in Goshen, Utah
BYU's annual archaeology field school excavated the largest known structure associated with the Fremont civilization. Read more about it here:
BYU's Museum of Paleontology
It doesn't matter if you're young or old, everyone loves dinosaurs. Travel back in time with Reporter Kathleen Keller to visit BYU's Museum of Paleontology.
Congressional Leader Marcia L. Fudge of Ohio Receives African American Family History
“It's really important to know not just who you are, but from which you've come,” said Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in Washington, D.C., to present U.S. Rep. Fudge with a copy of her family history Tuesday, May 2, 2017. She is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, an organization representing the African American members of the United States Congress.
“I am really ecstatic about the fact that I have some more information about my family,” said Rep. Fudge. “I think that I'm very fortunate to have known so many people in my family. Most people of my color are not.”
For blacks in America, researching their family history can be a challenge since records of their ancestors may not exist prior to 1870. Last year, that search got a little easier with the completion of the indexing of the historic Freedmen’s Bureau Records by FamilySearch International, a nonprofit organization sponsored by the Church.
“It really is a rare event,” said Elder Von G. Keetch of the Seventy, who represented the Church at the presentation to Congresswoman Fudge in the Rayburn House Office Building. “It takes a lot of time to go back and find ancestors and be sure that they are the proper ones in the line, so we don't do it often.”
Archaeology Field Trip - BYU Fall 2017
Video produced for a Brigham Young University Archaeology Field Trip Fall, 2017.
BYU Photographer, Mark Philbrick
Philbrick, Brigham Young University's chief photographer for the last 33 years, has a way of seeing — and capturing — things most people miss. Thousands of BYU's best moments, from academic accomplishments to famed athletic events, have been frozen in Philbrick's lens for fans and faculty to remember.
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What was Utah like in the year 1945? History is amazing.
What a grand thing to know that there are those who have gone before and laid out the way we should walk, teaching those great eternal principles that must be the guiding stars of our lives and of those who come after us. We today can follow their example. The pioneers were people of great faith, of tremendous loyalty, of unthinkable industry, and of absolutely solid and unbending integrity.
John F. Kennedy quoted the 11th Article of Faith in his Tabernacle Address. Also, “Tonight I speak for all Americans in expressing our gratitude to the Mormon people — for their pioneer spirit, their devotion to culture and learning, their example of industry and self-reliance. But I am particularly in their debt tonight for their successful battle to make religious liberty a living reality — for having proven to the world that different faiths of different views could flourish harmoniously in our midst.”
The Spirit of the Y - Brigham Young University Introduction
The Spirit of the Y is an introduction to the spirit and substance of Brigham Young University. BYU is the largest private church owned school in the US with educational programs that emphasize faith and character. Video produced by BYU University Communications.
Do You Have Nordic Ancestry?
Director of Content Operations at MyHeritage, Mike Mansfield, will give us an overview of available records in the Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, & Finland
President Boyd K. Packer: The Artistry of an Apostle
Boyd K. Packer, president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died at home Friday, July 3, 2015, at about 2 p.m. MDT from causes incident to age. He was 90 years old.
President Nelson Challenges Youth to Participate in ‘Greatest Cause’ on Earth
“When you know your life is being directed by God, regardless of the challenges and disappointments that may come, you will feel joy and peace,” said President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at a worldwide devotional for youth. President Nelson was joined by his wife, Wendy, for the historic broadcast that originated at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, June 3, 2018.
Youth Battalion
“I am inviting every young woman and every young man between the ages of 12 and 18 in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to enlist in the youth battalion of the Lord to help gather Israel,” said President Nelson, who challenged Mormon youth to participate in what he called “the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on the earth today.”
Sister Nelson encouraged the youth to stop comparing themselves to others. “It’s time to put away those erroneous views of ourselves and of others. The truth is that other people are not as perfect as they appear; and we are not as hopelessly flawed as we may think.”
ARPA | Armenian Merchants of Isfahan and Dissemination of Art {Levon Chookaszian}
Abstract: During the 16th through the 18th centuries the Armenian merchants in Persia were active not only on the transit route that cut across Armenia but also on many other routes that traversed the Eurasian continent. Together with merchants of the homeland they patronized and inspired the Armenian artists and promoted their works. By disseminating and supporting the Armenian art, they at the same time promoted themselves and commemorated forever their own names and became the ambassadors of culture. They sponsored the production of numerous illuminated manuscripts and helped the Armenian culture by saving them. They exported and imported a great diversity of artifacts, introducing to the western people with the cultural achievements of the eastern people, and similarly the culture of the western people to the eastern people.
Professor Dr. Levon Chookaszian was born in 1952 in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. He graduated from Yerevan State University in 1974 with a degree in philology and is the author of two monographs. He has published around four hundred articles and reviews for scholarly journals and newspapers, and he has prepared numerous entries on Armenian art, painters, sculptors, and architects for the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, the Armenian Question Encyclopedia, the Armenian Abridged Encyclopedia, the Saur Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon (Germany, Munchen-Leipzig). He has participated in many international congresses and symposia on the topic of Armenian, Georgian, Persian, and Byzantine art. Dr. Chookaszian and his brother Garegin Chookaszian are the initiators of an Armenian Art Database. In 1992-1993, Dr. Chookaszian was conducting research on 12th through 13th century Armenian illuminated manuscripts found in U.S. museums, galleries, and libraries as a Soros Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Getty
Fellow at the Getty Grant Program (Santa Monica, California). Between 1978-1996, he was a Senior Fellow and Professor of Armenian Art at the Center for Armenian Studies in the Yerevan State University. In 1996 he received the grant of UNESCO and established the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History, and Art History Department at Yerevan State University. Since then he is a director of the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History at Yerevan State University. Between 1992-2009 he delivered numerous lectures on
Armenian art at the universities, libraries and the museums in Italy (universities in Bologna, Ravenna, Siena, Ecole Normale Superiore in Pisa, Kunsthistorische Institute in Florence), USA (National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle, Columbia University, State University of New York in Albany, Wayne State University in Detroit, Cleveland State, Dearborn Michigan, Emory University in Atlanta, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Fresno State, UC Irvine, Brigham
Young University at Provo, University of Utah, Pasadena Public Library, Glendale Public Library), Canada (Concordia University in Montreal), UK (East Anglia University in Norwich), Lebanon (Balamand University near Tripoli and Haigazian University in Beirut), Greece (Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greek-Orthodox Centre), and Germany (Halle University in Halle, Lepsiushalle in Potsdam), France (Aix-en
Province University).
Find Your Immigrant Ancestors in the New York Passenger Arrival Records
This webinar will provide a brief history of passenger arrival records collected at Ellis Island and the port of New York. and MyHeritage has updated and expanded this index to improve findability in these important immigration records. Until now, no organization has indexed the millions of additional names and relationships listed in the New York passenger arrival records which provide information about the arriving immigrant’s nearest friend or relative in his home country as well as information about a friend or relative in the USA. These additional names and relationships are now available in a searchable index for the first time and can help genealogists find elusive passenger arrival records and solve difficult genealogical problems.
UVU: CCS Benjamin Franklin Event - March 2013
Holland, a distinguished scholar in the field of early American political thought, collaborated with Kerry on the book Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World, published in December. The book combines Kerry's study of intellectual history with Holland's expertise in political philosophy to create a unique approach to studying one of the nation's principal founders. While Franklin is more traditionally thought of as a doer, Holland and Kerry show the power of Franklin's role as a thinker.
In large part, American and world history credits Benjamin Franklin as a man of action and for the very practical things that he accomplished as a Founding Father, Holland said. This volume speaks of another facet of Franklin, considering him as a man of ideas, one who was shaped by and helped give shape to some of the key intellectual currents on both sides of the Atlantic.
Franklin showed that ideas could take many forms, whether they were scientific, political, or cultural, added Kerry, who will also speak at the event. He was not only writing about the ideas, but knew how to work with them. That was the genius of Franklin.
In addition to Holland and Kerry, Rick Griffin, director of The Center for Constitutional Studies, and Roy Goodman, assistant librarian and curator of printed materials at the American Philosophical Society, will also provide insight on Franklin during the event. Following their remarks, the four will participate in a brief Q & A session, after which the gathering will adjourn to the Center for Constitutional Studies (Suite 305 of the UVU Library) for a book signing and refreshments.
President Holland and Dr. Kerry's volume is not a typical Franklin book, said Griffin. It chronicles some of the lesser known intellectual pursuits of Franklin's life. The Center is delighted to explore the intellectual world of one of the most influential Founding Fathers.
The book had its official launch in Philadelphia earlier in January, which Kerry says has helped bring Utah Valley into the national conversation on political thought. Kerry attributes this newfound attention to Holland's dedication to constitutional studies. This is a man who cares deeply about the founders, about the constitution, and about the need for students to understand something of the history and the political thought of the founding generation, Kerry said of Holland.
Also during the event, the center will premiere its special exhibit, Benjamin Franklin: The Intellectual World of America's Renaissance Man, courtesy of the American Philosophical Society headquartered in Philadelphia, Pa, and the Crandall Historical Printing Museum in Provo, Utah. The exhibit, open to the public through the middle of March, features some original contemporary Benjamin Franklin advertising and memorabilia, a reproduction of 15th century printing materials associated with the Gutenberg Press, and a reproduction of Franklin's Constitution with his handwritten personal notes, rarely seen in its totality.
Prior to his selection as UVU's sixth president in 2009, Holland was an associate professor of political science at BYU, where he taught courses in political philosophy and early U.S. political heritage. His scholarly research on how ideals of Christian charity influenced the development of American political life garnered national attention. In 2005, he was selected as a James Madison Fellow at Princeton University, and in 2007, his book, Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America, was published by Georgetown University Press.
Kerry's training spans several universities including Oxford, Harvard, and Chicago and his publications have engaged with European intellectual history, transatlantic ideas, and historiography. He has served as editor for volumes on Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle, and Mozart. He has been awarded fellowships at Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, and Edinburgh and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Creativity | Claudine Bigelow
God is a profoundly creative being, and He has made us that way too. Creativity helps us to bring light to the world and to find joy.
Today I want to explore the topic of creativity and the spiritual connection it can help us have with our Heavenly Father. While creativity is an attribute we often associate with the arts, it is an important tool for finding our inner artist in every discipline at the university. The scriptures teach us that Heavenly Father is a profoundly creative Being, and He has made us to be that way too. Creativity helps us bring light to the world and our relationships and to find deep and satisfying joy.
At general conference in 2008 President Dieter F. Uchtdorf encouraged us to be creative:
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.
Everyone can create. You don’t need money, position, or influence in order to create something of substance or beauty.
Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty. . . .
You might say, “I’m not the creative type. . . .”
If that is how you feel, think again, and remember that you are spirit [children] of the most creative Being in the universe. Isn’t it remarkable to think that your very spirits are fashioned by an endlessly creative and eternally compassionate God? Think about it—your spirit body is a masterpiece, created with a beauty, function, and capacity beyond imagination.
But to what end were we created? We were created with the express purpose and potential of experiencing a fulness of joy. Our birthright—and the purpose of our great voyage on this earth—is to seek and experience eternal happiness. One of the ways we find this is by creating things. . . .
You may think you don’t have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before. . . .
What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. . . . Don’t let fear of failure discourage you. Don’t let the voice of critics paralyze you—whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside. . . .
The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create. That is your opportunity in this life and your destiny in the life to come. . . . As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but also the world within you.
Creativity is an essential part of my life—something I study and inspire others to find. It is a trait I hear a large number of people claim they don’t have, but in my work I have grown to believe that every human being is capable of cultivating it. I have seen it bloom and develop in countless people who thought they would never find it. I have also needed creativity in parenting and in strengthening family life. Bringing imagination to every experience makes life fun. - Claudine Bigelow
Claudine Bigelow was a professor of viola and associate director of the School of Music when she gave this devotional on 4 August 2015.
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