Utah Archives Month 2026 Virtual Brainstorm Session

Over the past year, the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board (USHRAB) has been hard at work completely overhauling Archives Month in Utah! Learn about these changes by viewing the presentation we made at the 2024 CIMA Fall Caucus. One big change? We are announcing the theme much earlier!

The Archives Month 2026 theme is Home in the Archives!

With 2026 marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, this year seems an opportune moment for reflection. To that end, the Board has chosen to make the Utah Archives Month theme “Home in the Archives.” Taken most literally, a home is a residence, but “home” can be so much more than that. “Home” can take on different meanings to different people and in different contexts. People sometimes become homesick while traveling, inevitably comparing the differences in their destination to the comfortable normality of their hometown. On the flip side, immigrants may courageously risk it all to move to a new place where they have no familial support or familiarity with local customs, but nonetheless strive to build meaningful connections as they make a new home. For the displaced, home may be a place that they’ve lost or a place they’ve never physically been to and only know through stories. For others, home may not be their own house, but a place or even a person who makes them feel safe and comforted. October 2026 is a great time to share the photographs, letters, postcards, scrapbooks, and other documents in your archive that show how you interpret “home.”

Join us on Tuesday, February 10, at 11am, for an hour-long conversation about the 2026 Archives Month theme! Come with questions and leave with answers.