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The museum maintains both permanent exhibits and changing, temporary exhibits on special themes. The images in these online galleries are representative of the works currently on display or in our collection.
 Willie & Martin Remembered: A Tribute to the Mormon Handcart Pioneers
For the 2006 Sesquicentennial of the Willie and Martin handcart journey, tragedy and rescue, Lee Groberg and Heidi Swinton authored the book Sweetwater Rescue: The Willie and Martin Handcart Story. A PBS documentary film of the same title was also produced. Forty-one of the best artists of the Intermountain Region were invited to produce artworks to illustrate the book. These stunning pieces are now exhibited at the Museum of Church History and Art.
29 September 2006, Lower Level
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 Seventh International Art Competition: Our Heritage of Faith
This art shows that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ transcends geographical location and cultural background. Here are heartfelt expressions that affirm life, reveal the love of God and the Savior, and honor the heritage of faith shared by Latter-day Saints everywhere.
24 March 2006 to 4 September 2006; Upper Level
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 Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration
This exhibit celebrates the bicentennial of Joseph Smith's birth through a combination of original artifacts, documents, art, and media presentations that explore the process through which Joseph was prepared, tutored, and refined to fulfill his prophetic calling. To see additional online, multimedia materials about Joseph Smith, visit JosephSmith.net.
4 February 2005 to 15 January 2006: Upper Level
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 Rembrandt: The Biblical Etchings
Working in Amsterdam, Rembrandt created 70 images based on Bible stories. With more than 50 etchings, this exhibit is one of the largest gatherings of Rembrandt's biblical work and reveals his insight and compassion in portraying timeless scriptural texts.
13 May 2005 to 11 December 2005: Upper Level
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 Scenes From The Land of Promise: Book of Mormon Paintings By Walter Rane
This exhibit of nineteen newly commissioned works brings to light significant stories from the Book of Mormon. The artist has expressed the history and lives of peoples in ancient America. In three of these powerful paintings the Savior is portrayed.
September 24, 2004 to April 17, 2005; Upper Level
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 Boyd K. Packer: The Lifework of an Amateur Artist
This exhibit features the wildlife painting and sculpture of Boyd K. Packer created over seven decades. His work reveals a love of nature and also portrays his life experiences and religious convictions.
26 September 2003 to 13 September 2004; Upper Level
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 Landscape and Life: The Rural Setting of the Latter–day Saints
This exhibit depicts key elements of the rural landscape in Utah as portrayed in artwork and photographs by Utah masters LeConte Stewart and J. George Midgley.
24 October 2003 to 18 April 2004: Lower Level
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 Primary Makes Me Happy: 125 years of Primary
For 125 years the Primary organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been true to its founding goals to love and to teach children, to help them grow in faith and to build testimonies of the truthfulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
18 January 2003 to 21 November 2003; Main Level
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 With Every Stitch
With Every Stitch: Historic and Contemporary Samplers and Needlework
15 November 2002 to 19 October 2003; Lower Level
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 Sixth International Art Competition: Latter–day Saints Yesterday and Today; Beliefs, History, Life
This competition features professional and amateur Latter-day Saint artists around the world. The 171 works selected from over 700 entries represent a wide variety of subjects that express many aspects of Latter-day Saint religious experience. These works are of high artistic quality and creativity, and reflect a range of media, artistic styles, and differing cultural approaches. Altogether artists from thirty countries are represented.
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 Sutcliffe Maudsley, Nauvoo Portrait Artist
Sutcliffe Maudsley was one of only three known portrait artists living in Nauvoo, Illinois, in the early 1840s. His life was typical of many early Latter-day Saint converts who emigrated from England to Nauvoo, but his contributions to the community and to history were unique.
His works are historically and artistically significant to the understanding of early Latter-day Saint history and culture. Maudsley's portraits of Joseph Smith Jr. and other early Church leaders and personalities are rare for this period. In spite of Maudsley's limited art training, his portraits are exceptional in capturing the likeness of his subjects.
12 April 2002 to 10 November 2002; Lower Level
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 Early Images of Historic Nauvoo
After almost one hundred fifty years, the Latter–day Saints have rebuilt their historic temple at Nauvoo. This exhibition celebrates this event by presenting some of the most significant nineteenth–century visual images of the temple, the city of Nauvoo, and events of the time.
19 April 2002 to 17 November 2002; Main Level
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 Artwork from previous International Art Competitions
This collection of previous art competition winners demonstrates the range and diversity of the artwork created by Latter–day Saints from around the world. Common to all of the artwork is the religious subject matter that expresses what it means to be a Latter–day Saint. Those who have created these works are both professional and amateur artists.
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