Nevada State Museum

The Nevada State Museum has a wide range of interesting displays. If one display depicts the desert wildlife which is indigenous to the locale, there is another which portrays Nevada during the nuclear testing regimen. The exhibits traverse through times from the ice age to the technological era of modern times.

The glamour and glitz of Vegas may steal the show but the Nevada State Museum and the Historical Society together offers visitors with a glimpse of complete and at times surprising past of this Silver State.

Among the various exhibits, the 48 feet long ichthyosaur merits special attention particularly for its mammoth size. The bones drawn from the front flipper of this creature which is now extinct are displayed in an adjacent case.

In another gallery inside the Nevada State Museum, you will notice a sequence seeking to trace the existence of man in Nevada. The hand woven baskets you will notice symbolize the lifestyle of Native Americans during those times. Some of the maps in the museum offer great insight into the interwoven paths chosen by explorers as they moved across the desert.

The Nevada State Museum also holds a large exhibit on the nuclear testing in Nevada. Several newspaper clippings, photos and cartoons also adore the walls.

But, any museum attempting to chronicle the history of Nevada can be complete only when information on the Las Vegas casinos is added and the Nevada State Museum has rightly followed the tradition. An exhibit of photographs highlighting some of the prominent neon signs in all of Vegas can be seen here. In another area, you can acquaint yourself with the Flamingo hotel and its history.

The displays at the museum are not just colorful but are as intriguing as Nevada’s colorful past. The Nevada State Museum has enough to hold your attention for several hours when you travel to Las Vegas Nevada.