Museums36.9060° N, 116.7614° W
Beatty, NV
The local museum interprets Beatty, nearby Rhyolite, railroads, mining, Indigenous history, and the hard-lived communities around the Bullfrog district.
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- Open to visitors
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- Museums36.1601° N, 115.1530° W
Las Vegas, NV
An unusual museum dedicated to the history, costumes, performers, and ephemera of American burlesque.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums38.0603° N, 117.2206° W
Tonopah, NV
A regional museum packed with mining, railroad, military, ranching, and pioneer material, including outdoor historic structures and heavy equipment.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums36.1301° N, 115.1747° W
Las Vegas, NV
A museum examining erotic art, sexuality, social history, and cultural taboos through rotating and permanent exhibits; adults-only policies apply.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.5095° N, 115.9608° W
Eureka, NV
The former Eureka Sentinel newspaper building preserves original printing presses, type, equipment, and mining-town exhibits in an unusually complete historic workspace.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.3031° N, 119.6523° W
Virginia City, NV
A four-story 1876 schoolhouse preserves classrooms, exhibits, and an unusually intact example of Second Empire public architecture from the Comstock boom.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums37.7034° N, 117.2336° W
Goldfield, NV
A small specialist collection preserves antique radios, communications equipment, and broadcast-era technology in one of Nevada’s most intact old mining towns.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Museums36.8949° N, 116.8307° W
Rhyolite, NV
An outdoor sculpture park beside Rhyolite fills the desert with surreal permanent works created by Belgian and other artists.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums37.9291° N, 114.4521° W
Pioche, NV
A small museum collects mining equipment, household objects, photographs, and frontier material from Pioche and Lincoln County’s scattered ghost towns.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.4046° N, 114.7787° W
McGill, NV
A shuttered company-town drugstore survives as a time capsule with its counters, products, fixtures, prescriptions, and soda fountain largely intact.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Museums38.5320° N, 118.6253° W
Hawthorne, NV
A dense county collection covers mining camps, railroads, military history, local fossils, Indigenous artifacts, and abandoned communities across Mineral County.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.5258° N, 119.8089° W
Reno, NV
A vast collection of historic automobiles includes rare, eccentric, celebrity-owned, and one-off vehicles arranged through recreated street scenes.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.1679° N, 119.7696° W
Carson City, NV
Housed in the former Carson City U.S. Mint, the museum combines CC-mint coinage, a recreated underground mine, fossils, archaeology, and Nevada natural history.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums40.8419° N, 115.7531° W
Elko, NV
A regional museum combines Western history, Indigenous material, mining exhibits, art, and extensive wildlife displays from northeastern Nevada and beyond.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums36.0849° N, 115.1717° W
Las Vegas, NV
A huge playable collection of vintage pinball and arcade machines, including decades of coin-operated oddities that are preserved by a nonprofit museum.
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- Museums36.1767° N, 115.1352° W
Las Vegas, NV
The Boneyard preserves hundreds of rescued Las Vegas signs, turning the city’s discarded neon into an outdoor museum of casino, motel, and roadside history.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Museums36.1543° N, 115.1606° W
Las Vegas, NV
A museum built around punk history, stage gear, handwritten material, clothing, flyers, and artifacts contributed by musicians and scenes from around the world.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.3123° N, 119.6486° W
Virginia City, NV
An old-school local museum is packed with mining machinery, photographs, maps, household artifacts, and Comstock relics collected over generations.
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- Museums35.9716° N, 114.8507° W
Boulder City, NV
A practical-effects museum packed with handmade monsters, masks, props, and creature-making displays from horror-film culture.
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- Open to visitors
- Museums39.2528° N, 114.8783° W
Ely, NV
A local museum mixes mining history, pioneer objects, taxidermy, fossils, regional archaeology, and an outdoor collection of large historic artifacts.
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- Open to visitors