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This list of museums in Nevada encompasses museums which are defined for this context as physical institutions, (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The Nevada Museum of Art, is an art museum in Reno, Nevada. Located at 160 West Liberty Street in Reno, it is the only American Alliance of Museums (AAM) accredited art museum in the state of Nevada. The museum has chosen a thematic approach, placing a special emphasis on human interaction with the land and the protection of nature in its ...
Boulder City, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S. is situated by the Hoover Dam. The only reason for its existence was the requirement of housing the employees hired to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. At the time of construction of the Dam, Boulder City sheltered more than 4,000 employees in 1500 buildings from 1931 to 1935. [5] [6]
The Nevada State Railroad Museum Boulder City is a railroad museum in Boulder City, Nevada which is an agency of the Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.The railway is located on the Boulder City Branch Line, the historic railroad route installed to support construction activities at the Hoover Dam. [1]
The Department of Museums, Library, and Arts was created in 1993. [1] In 2001, it was renamed as the Department of Cultural Affairs. [1] [2]The Department was eliminated by the legislature for budgetary reasons in 2011, and its components were moved to other departments. [3]
Hawkins House, later known as Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, is a historic home in Reno, Nevada. It was designed in a colonial revival style by Elmer Grey for Prince A. Hawkins, a scion of the well-established Hawkins family, in 1911. [2] It is now the offices of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA). [3]
Boulder City is a city [5] in Clark County, Nevada, United States. [4] It is approximately 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Las Vegas . As of the 2020 census , the population of Boulder City was 14,885. [ 6 ]
The Lost City Museum (formerly known as the Boulder Dam Park Museum) was built by the National Park Service in 1935 to exhibit artifacts from Pueblo Grande de Nevada. The most developed sections of the pueblo is partially submerged under the Overton arm of Lake Mead, 5 mi south of Overton as a result of building Boulder Dam. [2] [9]