The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is the major center for the exhibition of the visual arts in northern Utah. Emphasizing the breadth of artistic expression and the history of art in the western United States, the Museum’s permanent collections include Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American sculpture, ceramics, paintings, graphic arts, photographs, and American Indian arts. Selections from the collection are always on view and are rotated periodically to reflect the continuing growth and refinement of the collection. In addition to installations of its permanent holdings, the Museum organizes temporary and traveling exhibitions and serves as a venue for exhibitions of national and international stature. Artist talks, films, docent tours, and educational activities are additional dimensions of the Museum’s programs which are designed to interpret, present, and foster the development of the visual arts. Named for its benefactor, the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art was made possible through an insightful and generous gift from the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation. The Museum’s collections have eclipsed over 5,000 objects through the generous support of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation, Janet Quinney Lawson, Fredrick Q. Lawson, and the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation.

The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) is a unit within the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. NEHMA is committed to utilizing its resources for the education of students and other constituencies including University faculty, public schools, and the community at large. The Museum engages visitors in the powerful experience of artistic innovation, fosters a sense of discovery and an enhanced understanding of art and the creative process with its engaging educational programs, electronic media, significant and growing acquisitions, and scholarly research designed to stimulate and enhance the appreciation and understanding of human culture. To fulfill this mission and its potential, the Museum collects, maintains, preserves, and regularly exhibits art created in the American west with an emphasis in contemporary western art movements.

Called "Noni" by family and close friends, Nora Eccles Treadwell Harrison's achievements went beyond benefaction. Her captivating personality, determined stewardship, and absolute love of ceramics helped create a world filled with visual adventures. She was friend and patron to potters throughout the West. She was also an avid raconteur of contemporary art, spending time away from her potter's wheel to visit galleries, museums, and the artists whose works she admired. Joining Nora on her myriad travels until his death in 1972, was her husband, Walter Treadwell. The future course of the Museum was carefully laid by Nora Eccles Harrison. With her second husband, Richard Harrison, she propelled the institution to center stage with a magnificent gift of the museum building and more than four hundred ceramics objects, including some of her own handiwork, which represent the vessel tradition. These objects form the nucleus of the continually expanding ceramics collection, which currently numbers over 1,200 pieces.