Nevada State Museum
The Nevada State Museum is a unique part of the overall Springs Preserve experience. Housed in a beautiful, 70,000-square-foot building, the facility features a 13,000-square-foot exhibit gallery that stands as the museum centerpiece.
At the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas, visitors can:
- Stand face-to-face with Nevada's state fossil, an Ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis
- Step inside a stalactite cave
- Watch holographic figures tell the tale of Nevada's miners
- Witness an atomic explosion
- See historic Las Vegas glitz and glamor
- Learn more about our region through temporary exhibits in the museum's changing gallery
Thousands of years of local natural and human history is waiting for exploration at the Nevada State Museum.