Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters
About Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters
The Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters is a museum and visitors' center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Florence neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The museum interprets the story of the Mormon Trail along with the history of a temporary Mormon settlement known as Winter Quarters, which was located in the Florence area between 1846 and 1848.
The museum is located on a bluff above and to the west of the Winter Quarters settlement site and is directly across the street from the historic Mormon Pioneer Cemetery and the Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple.
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- Founded
- 1997
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Nearby museums
Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 3.8 miles of Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters; the closest, Winter Quarters Mill Museum, is about a mile away.
