There are snakes, rats and trout living near us in Utah — and now they're living in the Natural History Museum of Utah's new exhibit

Nature isn’t a far-away thing, the folks at the Natural History Museum of Utah say, but something as close as your backyard, neighborhood park or city street.

The museum’s new exhibit, “Nature All Around Us,” teaches about the wild critters and plants that live in close proximity to humans every day. Museum staff have been working for three years developing the exhibit, the biggest in-house presentation they’ve ever done outside the permanent exhibits.

The exhibit features interactive presentations, specimens from the museum’s collection, and 18 cases that hold real, live animals, including a gopher snake, a brown tarantula, snails, brown rats, and rainbow and brown trout. (Obviously, not together.)

Read more about the exhibit, which opens Saturday, Oct. 19, here at sltrib.com.