
Proposed Museum
The Topaz Museum Board intends to establish a permanent museum in Delta, Utah, 15 miles from the original site of Topaz. Photographs, artifacts, and displays depicting the Topaz internment experience will inform and educate residents of Millard County and the general public. Further, it is hoped that former internees and their families will experience a strong emotional connection to the Museum and will be able to take comfort in the fact that the hardships they endured will not be forgotten.
The Topaz Museum is in a unique position to preserve the history of Topaz. 80% of the original site remains undisturbed since the camp was dismantled. Visitors to the site can still see the outlines of roads, barracks and even an occasional garden which internees created to brighten their bleak surroundings. Concrete foundations of mess halls and latrines still remain and one can find various artifacts of daily internment life buried in the dusty desert. Camp site photos.
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