Nevada State Museum Las Vegas

The Nevada State Museum Las Vegas, located within the Springs Preserve — a 180-acre desert park preserving the natural springs that made Las Vegas possible as a settlement — explores Nevada's natural and cultural history through immersive exhibits including Indigenous artifacts, decorative arts, and natural history specimens. The Springs Preserve setting gives the museum a unique context: visitors encounter Nevada's deep geological and human history in the very landscape where that history began, at the springs that sustained Indigenous communities for centuries before becoming a railroad watering stop and, eventually, the site of the world's most visited city. The museum's collections of Native Nevada art and material culture are among the most significant in Southern Nevada.