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. Defunct museums are listed in a separate section.
| Name | Location | County | Type | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site | |||||
| Clark | Automobile | Showroom and display of classic cars at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino | |||
| Austin Historical Society Museum | Local history | [1] | |||
| Battle Mountain Cookhouse Museum | Lander | Local history | website | ||
| Beatty Museum | Local history | website, area fossils, wildlife and plants, mining, ghost towns | |||
| Clark | History | History of the Boulder Canyon Project, operated by the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association in the historic Boulder Dam Hotel | |||
| Carson City | Historic house | ||||
| Brothel Art Museum | Nye | Erotica | [2] [3] | ||
| Buckaroo Hall of Fame & Heritage Museum | Culture | website, artwork, photos, memorabilia, saddles, guns, hand-woven lariats, brands and other working gear used by cowboys, located at the Winnemucca Convention Center | |||
| Las Vegas | Clark | Hall of fame | History of burlesque | ||
| Carson City Fire Museum | Carson City | Carson City | Fire fighting | website, also known as Warren Engine Co. No. 1 Museum | |
| Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center | Local history | Operated by the Douglas County Historical Society | |||
| Central Nevada Museum | Nye | Local history | website, photos, exhibits include Tonopah Army Air Field, area railroads and mining equipment, operated by the Central Nevada Historical Society | ||
| Children's Museum of Northern Nevada | Carson City | Carson City | Children's | website | |
| Churchill County Museum & Archives | Local history | website, exhibits include Native American and pioneer artifacts, period rooms, railroads, antique communications equipment and vehicles, Woodliff Novelty Store, post | |||
| Clark County Museum | Clark | Open-air | Includes museum with local history exhibits, minerals display, 1920s and 1950s period homes, 1900s replica print shop, depot with steam engine and caboose | ||
| Comstock Fireman's Museum | Virginia City | Storey | Fire fighting | website | |
| Comstock History Center | Local history | [4] [5] | |||
| Comstock Gold Mill | Virginia City | Storey | Mining | ||
| Courthouse Museum Genoa | Local history | website, operated by the Douglas County Historical Society, features period room displays including a courtroom, kitchen, nursery, Victorian parlor, blacksmith shop | |||
| Dayton Museum | Local history | website, includes pioneer memorabilia, quilts, and photographs from Dayton's history, including pioneers, prospectors and miners, woodcutters, Native Americans, Chinese, Italians, ranching, railroading, the Sutro Tunnel | |||
| Clark | Automobile | Showroom and display of classic cars at the Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino | |||
| Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery | Las Vegas | Clark | Art | website, part of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas | |
| Las Vegas | Clark | Erotica | History of Erotica | ||
| Eureka Sentinel Museum | Local history | website, photos, features newspaper printing room, mining exhibits, period room displays | |||
| Washoe | Science | Part of the University of Nevada, Reno, public star shows, astronomy exhibits, meteorites | |||
| Foreman-Roberts House Museum | Carson City | Carson City | Historic house | Open by appointment and for special events | |
| Fort Churchill State Historic Park | History | Visitor center features exhibits about the fort's history | |||
| Fourth Ward School Museum | Virginia City | Storey County | Local history | City history, mining, 19th century education | |
| Frank Chang Memorial Museum | Ethnic | Located adjacent to the Cadillac Inn, artifacts from ruins of Lovelock's Chinatown[6] | |||
| Goldwell Open Air Museum | Nye | Art | Outdoor sculpture park | ||
| Great Basin National Park | Natural history | Visitor centers feature exhibits about the geology, natural history and cultural history of the area | |||
| Hawthorne Ordnance Museum | Mineral | Military | Exhibits on ordance & munitions. | ||
| Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum | Clark | Aviation | History of commercial and general aviation in southern Nevada, located at McCarran International Airport | ||
| Humboldt Museum | Humboldt | Local history | website, includes castings of mammoth bones, period rooms, Native American, pioneer and cowboy artifacts, 899 Richardson-Saunders House, 1907 St. Mary's Episcopal Church, and the 1880s Greinstein Building, operated by the North Central Nevada Historical Society | ||
| International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts | Las Vegas | Clark | Magic | Created by magician David Copperfield, includes magic memorabilia, books, illusions, posters, photos and artifacts, items from Harry Houdini, open to scholars | |
| Julia C. Bulette Red Light Museum | Virginia City | Storey | Erotica | Madam Julia Bulette, prostitution erotica, Chinese art and antique medical equipment | |
| Las Vegas | Clark | Local history | Timeline of city history, includes old railroad, celebrity, aerial, and casino photos | ||
| Las Vegas International Scout Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | Scouting | website | |
| Las Vegas | Clark | Includes dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, international wildlife, Nevada desert wildlife, marine animals, geology | |||
| Las Vegas | Clark | Multiple | 180acres preserve with several museums and botanical garden | ||
| Lied Discovery Children's Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | Interactive exhibits in science, arts and culture | ||
| Lincoln County Historical Museum | Local history | [7] photos | |||
| Lost City Museum | Clark | Archaeology | Excavated artifacts from Anasazi pueblo ruins | ||
| Lyon County Museum | Open-air | website, features 7 buildings including museum with period room and business displays, model railroad, local art, natural history, local pioneers, three old country schools, a general store and a blacksmith shop | |||
| Mackay Mansion | Virginia City | Storey | Historic house | website, Mid 19th-century mansion with period furnishings, mining artifacts | |
| Las Vegas | Clark | ||||
| Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art | Las Vegas | Clark | Art | Part of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, exhibitions of contemporary visual fine arts, Mesoamerican artifacts | |
| Mark Twain Museum at the Territorial Enterprise | Virginia City | Storey | History | Historic newspaper building with Mark Twain's desk, press area and printing equipment | |
| Marshall Mint Museum | Virginia City | Storey | Natural history | Gems and mineral display in a jewelry store | |
| Marzen House Museum | Lovelock | Pershing | Local history | Includes mining equipment, home fixtures, Native American artifacts and an Indian Cave exhibit[8] [9] | |
| McGill Drugstore Museum | Local history | Historic drugstore open by appointment, operated by the White Pine Public Museum | |||
| Mineral County Museum | Mineral | Local history | Exhibits on Mineral County. | ||
| Mob Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | History | History of organized crime in the United States and activities of law enforcement, housed in the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse | |
| Mormon Station State Historic Park | Local history | Recreated trading post stockade and museum with pioneer exhibits | |||
| The Museum of Hollywood Aviation | Clark | Las Vegas | Aviation Museum | Coming soon. Will feature aircraft from contemporary Hollywood films and entertainers | website |
| Reno | Washoe | Transportation - Automobile | |||
| Neon Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | Media | Neon signs | |
| Nevada Gambling Museum | Virginia City | Storey | Industry - Gambling | Antique slot machines, gaming tables and roulette wheels[10] | |
| Nevada Historical Society | Reno | Washoe | History | website, history and culture of Nevada | |
| Nevada Museum of Art | Reno | Washoe | |||
| Nevada Northern Railway Museum | Historic railroad yard complex, heritage railroad, includes the East Ely Railroad Depot Museum | ||||
| Clark | Railroad | ||||
| Carson City | Carson City | History | |||
| Nevada State Museum, Carson City | Carson City | Carson City | Multiple | History, pre-history and natural history of Nevada | |
| Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas | Las Vegas | Clark | Multiple | Frontier history, natural history, archaeology and anthropology of southern Nevada, development of the city | |
| Nevada State Railroad Museum | Carson City | Carson City | |||
| Northeastern Nevada Museum | Multiple | website, history, art, natural history | |||
| Las Vegas | Clark | History | Restored fort and visitor center with related exhibits | ||
| Pahrump Valley Museum | Nye | Multiple | website, includes Abraham Lincoln memorabilia collection, farm equipment, general store, school house, silo and buildings from the Bowman Ranch, Native American artifacts, prospecting, ranching and farming exhibits, war ephemera, fossils, rock and minerals, area wildlife | ||
| Pierre Fauchard Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | Medical | website, part of the College of Southern Nevada, history of dentistry, named after Pierre Fauchard, considered the "father of modern dentistry" | |
| Las Vegas | Clark | Amusement | Working pinball machines from the 1950s to 1990s | ||
| Pyramid Lake Museum & Visitors Center | Washoe | Native American | website, Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's history, culture, people and current events | ||
| Searchlight Historical Museum | Clark | Local history | information, exhibits include mining, costume designer Edith Head, pilot John A. Macready, Senator Harry Reid, composer Scott Joplin; housed inside the Searchlight Community Center | ||
| Shelby Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | Transportation | ||
| Sheppard Contemporary Gallery | Reno | Washoe | Art | website, part of University of Nevada, Reno | |
| Sierra Arts Gallery | Reno | Washoe | Art | website, operated by the Sierra Arts Foundation | |
| Sparks Museum & Cultural Center | Washoe | Multiple | website, area history, ranching, mining, space industry, art exhibits, replica depot with vintage steam locomotive, cupola caboose and Pullman executive car, restored one room schoolhouse | ||
| St. Mary's Art & Retreat Center | Virginia City | Storey | Art | website, located in the former St. Mary Louise Hospital for the Comstock miners | |
| St. Mary's in the Mountains Catholic Church | Virginia City | Storey | Religious | Historic church with museum about its history | |
| The Way It Was Museum | Virginia City | Storey | Mining | Features Comstock mining artifacts and photographs | |
| Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum | Reno | Washoe | Children's | science, technology, engineering, art, math and the world | |
| Historic house | Waterfront estate on Lake Tahoe | ||||
| Thunderbirds Museum | Nellis Air Force Base | Clark | Aerospace | History of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, includes a Thunderbirds aircraft static display | |
| Tonopah Historic Mining Park | Nye | Mining | website, former silver mine | ||
| University of Nevada, Reno Fine Art Galleries | Reno | Washoe | Art | website, four galleries and art exhibited in locations around the campus | |
| Virgin Valley Heritage Museum | Lincoln | Local history | Area pioneers and local history | ||
| Walker African American Museum | Las Vegas | Clark | African American | [11] | |
| Washoe Club | Virginia City | Storey | History | Tours of the historic social club building that is considered a haunted location | |
| Western Folklife Center | Elko | Art | website, exhibitions, performances and educational programs about the American West | ||
| White Pine Public Museum | Local history | website, photos | |||
| White River Valley Museum | White Pine | Local history | Features relics of one of the last colonization efforts of the Mormons in the American West[12] | ||
| Wilbur D. May Center | Reno | Washoe | Multiple | Includes eclectic ethnographic collection, arboretum and botanical garden, temporary/traveling exhibits and art shows | |
| W. M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum | Reno | Washoe | Geology | Part of the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, minerals, ores, fossil specimens, and mining relics and displays | |