Visitors From Around Utah and the World
View The Center's Wendover Exhibit Hall
The guest book at The Center's Wendover Exhibit
Hall, has been filling up with favorable comments left by visitors,
who have come from as far away as Switzerland. A few hundred people
are estimated to have visited the Hall, which opened this summer
with the exhibit Around Wendover: An Examination of the Anthropic
Landscape Through Maps and Photographs. The exhibit describes
many of the unusual forms of land use found in the sparsely populated
salt flats, mountains, and valleys around the town of Wendover,
which sits on the border between Nevada and Utah.
Located at an abandoned airbase (where WWII bomber
crews trained--including that of the Enola Gay), the Exhibit Hall,
a former military barracks, is largely self-managed. Visitors
receive instructions for entering the Hall by telephoning a number,
posted at the entrance to the building. The call goes through
to The Center's automated Museum Complex Information Line.
The exhibit became front-page news in Salt Lake
City's largest daily paper, where journalists likened the experience
of visiting it to an episode of the popular television program
"The X-Files".
The Wendover Exhibit Hall is part of The Center's
expanding network of display sites that together comprise The
Museum of Land Use.
