Topaz Museum

For decades Delta didn't talk about what had happened out on the flats. Then in 1982 a high-school teacher, Jane Beckwith, sent her journalism students to interview the townspeople who'd worked at the camp — and the silence broke. Neighbors started bringing in what they'd kept: a trunk of artifacts, then hundreds of them. The museum that grew from that assignment opened its own Delta building in 2017, holding the art made behind the wire — Chiura Obata's paintings, the camp newspaper, the woodblocks — so the incarceration would be remembered by the county that housed it.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Topaz War Relocation Center WWII — steps away
• Fort Deseret (Black Hawk War) — 7.4 mi
• Topaz Interment Camp WWII — 11 mi
• Gunnison Massacre (2) Monuments — 12 mi