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Exhibits, Clubs, and Tours
Nevada Exhibits, Clubs, and Tours
Nevada Museums, Parks, Exhibits and Areas of Geologic InterestBAKER Great Basin National Park/Lehman Cave100 Great Basin National Park Baker, NV 89311 Tel: 775-234-7331; Fax: 775-234-7269 E-mail: grba_interpretation@nps.gov Website: http:// www.nps.gov/grba Excellent underground tours of Lehman Cave. Spectacular mountain scenery. * BATTLE MOUNTAIN The Trail of the 49ers Interpretive Center (Closed - information as of 8/17/2009)453 N Second Street, Battle Mountain, NV 89820 * BEATTY Beatty Museum & Historical Society417 Main Street, Beatty, NV 89003 Tel: 775-553-2303 Website: http://www.beattymuseum.com *
Rhyolite Historic Town-site/Gold Well Open Air Museum
BELMONT Belmont Courthouse State Historic Sitec/o Fallon Regional Headquarters, 16799 Lahontan Dam, Fallon, NV 89406 Tel: 775-867-3001 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/bc.htm Located in the ghost town of Belmont, the partially restored courthouse was built in 1876. * BERLIN Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park23 miles east of Gabbs on State Route 884 HC 61, Box 61200, Austin, NV 89310-9301 Tel: 775-964-2440; Fax: 775-964-2012 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/bi.htm Unusual combination of early 20th century mining ghost town adjacent to an exceptional exhibit center featuring fossil ichthyosaurs. * BOULDER CITY Hoover Dam Visitor's CenterPO Box 60400, Boulder City, NV 89006-0400 Tel: 702-294-3517; Fax: 702-294-3585 Website: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam Tour of the dam interior is fascinating. Well worth the visit if you are in Southern Nevada. *
Lake Mead National Recreation Area Visitor's Center
CALIENTE Rainbow CanyonBLM, Caliente Field Station 1400 S. Front St., Caliente, NV 89008 Tel: 775-726-8100; Fax: 775-726-8111 Website: http://www.nv.blm.gov/ely/ Self-guided tour of interesting scenic area , including rock art, geologic features and natural resources. Allow 2 hours, maps available from BLM. * CARLIN Barrick Goldstrike Mine TourPO Box 29, Elko, NV 89803 Tel: 775-778-8121 (Public Tours - May through August) Website: n/a Excellent tour of one of North America's largest gold mines. *
Newmont Gold Quarry Mine Tour
CARSON CITY Nevada State Museum600 North Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701 Tel: 775-687-4810; Fax: 775-687-4333 Website: http://nevadaculture.org/museums/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=486&Itemid=120 Housed in the former United States Carson City Branch Mint building where coins were minted from 1870 to 1893, all bearing the distinguishing "CC" mint mark.. The Earth Science Gallery explores Nevada's geologic history from 1,750 million years ago to 40 million years ago, including a walk-through Devonian Sea.. Has an exceptional re-creation of an underground mine from the Comstock Lode. Also on display is America's largest exhibited Imperial mammoth (15,000 and 17,000 years old) found in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, and the battleship USS Nevada's silver service fashioned from 5,000 ounces (417 pounds troy weight) of silver from the deep shafts of the Tonopah mines and lined with gold from the mines of Goldfield. *
Nevada State Railroad Museum
Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
DAYTON Dayton Historical Society MuseumLogan and Shady Lane, Old Town Dayton, NV 89403 Tel: 775-246-3256 (Tennant Construction) or 775-246-0188 (Dayton Courier) Contact: Laura Tennant Website: http://www.daytonnvhistory.org/ Established in an 1865 schoolhouse. Collection includes: artifacts and photographs of pioneers, Native Americans, Chinese, railroads, Sutro Tunnel and early Lyon County history. * DENIO Rainbow Ridge Opal MineSummer: PO Box 97, Denio, NV 89404 Tel: 775-941-0270 (approx. May through October) Winter Address: 437 NW 7th Street Redmond, OR 97756 Tel: 541-548-4810 (approx. November through April) Website: http://www.nevadaopal.com/season.html Great opportunity to collect black fire opal, opalized wood and fluorescent opal. *
Royal Peacock Opal Mine
ELKO Northeastern Nevada Museum1515 Idaho Street, Elko, NV, 89801. Tel: 775-738-3418; Fax: 775-778-9318 Website: None. (Information from Nevada Commission on Tourism, http://www.travelnevada.com/ , under Activities; Attractions & Museums; Cowboy Country; Elko) The museum collection contains over 29,000 photographs 3,000 books and area newspapers dating from 1869 to the present. Collection highlights include a 2 million year old American Mastodon, currently the only well documented American Mastodon in the Great Basin. A new exhibit features fossil plants and animals, most of which were found in Northeastern Nevada. Local mining history is also portrayed. *
Ruby Mountains Recreation Area/Thomas Canyon
Campground/Lamoille Canyon
ELY East Ely Railroad Depot1100 Avenue A, PO Box 151100, Ely, NV 89301 Tel: 775-289-1663; Fax: 775-289-1664 Website: http://nevadaculture.org/museums/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=408&Itemid=126 Located in the historic East Ely Railroad depot, preserves the mining and railroad history of eastern Nevada. *
Garnet Hill
Rockhounding Area
Nevada Northern Railway Museum
White Pine Public Museum
Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Site
EUREKA Eureka Sentinel Museum10 South Bateman Street, Eureka, NV 89316 Tel: 775-237-5010; Fax 775-237-6040 Website: http://www.co.eureka.nv.us/tourism/museum01.htm Mining history items from Eureka's 1870's lead/silver boom. * FALLON Churchill County Museum & Archives1050 S Main Street, Fallon, NV 89406 Tel: 775-423-3677 Website: http://www.ccmuseum.org * GARDNERVILLE Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center1477 Highway 395, Gardnerville, NV 89410 Tel: 775-782-2555 Website: None. (Information from Nevada Commission on Tourism, http://www.travelnevada.com/ , under Activities; Attractions & Museums; Reno-Tahoe Country; Gardnerville) * GENOA Genoa Courthouse MuseumMain and Fifth Street, Genoa, NV 89410 Tel: 775-782-4325 Website: None. (Information from Nevada Commission on Tourism, http://www.travelnevada.com/ , under Activities; Attractions & Museums; Reno-Tahoe Country; Genoa) * GOLDFIELD
Goldfield Historical Society
HAWTHORNE Mineral County Historical Museum400 10th Street, PO Box 1584, Hawthorne, NV 89415 Tel: 775-945-5142 Website: http:// www.greatbasin.net/~mcmuseum/ Collection includes mining equipment and fossils. *
Walker Lake State Recreation Area
HENDERSON Clark County Museum1830 S Boulder Highway, Henderson, NV 89015 Tel: 702-455-7955 http://www.co.clark.nv.us/parks/Clark_County_Museum.htm Well-done small museum which has a small mining and mineral exhibit (including some CFMS specimens). Annual Desert Treasures program (August-October) features a mineral/mining exhibit, gem & mineral fair and Friends of Mineralogy symposium. Research collection includes Nevada minerals, Nevada mining history documents (including photos, stock certificates and mining journals), as well as Native American artifacts, and gaming and local history. Historic homes and buildings on site also worth a look. *
McCaw Elementary School "School of Mines"
LAKE TAHOE Lake Tahoe-Nevada State ParkPO Box 8867, Incline Village, NV 89452 Tel: 775-831-0494 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/lt.htm One of the West's truly majestic lakes, set in the Sierra Nevada's. * LAS VEGAS Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Nevada-Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, NV 89154 Tel: 702-895-3381 Website: http://hrc.nevada.edu/museum The museum is dedicated to collect, preserve and exhibit objects that illustrate the natural history of the southwest United States and its surrounding regions. *
Las Vegas Museum of Natural History
Lied Discovery Children's
Museum
Nevada State Museum and Historical Society
Museum depicts southern Nevada history from the Ice Age to present. Collection includes fossils, minerals and mining history. *
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park
UNLV Geoscience Exhibit LOVELOCK Pershing County Marzen House MuseumMarzen Lane, PO Box 566, Lovelock, NV 89419 Tel: 775-273-2115 Website: None. (Information from Nevada Commission on Tourism, http://www.travelnevada.com/ , under Activities; Attractions & Museums; Cowboy Country; Lovelock) * Exhibits include mining equipment, Native American artifacts and an Indian Cave. * NELSON (ELDORADO CANYON) Techatticup Mining Camp OVERTON Lost City Museum721 S Moapa Valley Blvd., PO Box 807, Overton, NV 89040 Tel: 702-397-2193 Website: http://www.comnett.net/~kolson/ Exhibits focus on artifacts and dwellings of ancient Pueblo (Anazasi) culture (1-1150 A.D.). Also has exhibits on more recent Native American people, as well as local natural history and geology. *
Valley of Fire State Park
PANACA Cathedral Gorge State ParkPO Box 176, Panaca, NV 89042 Tel: 775-728-4460 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/cg.htm Dramatic erosional features (spires and canyons) in a long, narrow valley. * PIOCHE Echo Canyon State ParkHC 74, Box 295, Pioche, NV 89043 Tel: 775-962-5103 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/ec.htm Echo Canyon State Park offers a 65-acre reservoir with a campground, picnic area, group use facilities and boat launch. The park is popular for camping, fishing, hiking and enjoying the beautiful scenery of eastern Nevada. Abundant wildlife, a wide variety of native plants and unique rock formations make exploration a favorite activity. *
Lincoln County Museum
Million Dollar Courthouse
RENO Fleischmann PlanetariumUniversity of Nevada-Reno 1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557 Tel: 775-784-4811; Fax 775-784-4822 Website: http://planetarium.unr.nevada.edu/ *
W. M. Keck Museum
Nevada Historical Society Museum
Wilbur D. May Great Basin Adventure
Peterson Peak, AKA Hallelujah Junction,
California/Nevada ROUND MOUNTAIN Smoky Valley MuseumRound Mountain, NV Tel: 775-377-2243 Website: n/a Located in a 1935 schoolhouse, features local history, vintage mining and assaying equipment. Open by appointment. * SEARCHLIGHT Searchlight Heritage Museum and Historic Mining ParkSearchlight Community Center 200 Michael Wendell Way, Searchlight, NV 89046 Tel: 702-297-0155 Website: http://www.co.clark.nv.us/parks/Clark_County_Museum.htm#Searchlight This small museum, a satellite of the Clark County Museum, reports the history of the mining boom town of Searchlight. The story of Searchlight mining and railroad heritage and its many colorful pioneer citizens is told through photos, artifacts, exhibits, and an outdoor mining park. * SILVER SPRINGS Fort Churchill State Historical Park1000 Highway 95A Silver Springs, NV 89429 Tel: 775-577-2345 Website: http://parks.nv.gov/fc.htm Fort Churchill was once a U.S. Army fort built in 1861 to provide protection for early settlers. It was abandoned nine years later, and today the ruins are preserved in a state of arrested decay. Twice a year the Nevada Civil War Volunteers puts on a civil war encampment at Fort Churchill. * TONOPAH Central Nevada Museum1900 Logan Field Road P.O. Box 326 Tonopah, NV 89049 Tel: 775-482-9676; Fax: 775-482-5423 Website: http://www.tonopahnevada.com/CentralNevadaMuseum.html *
Tonopah Historic Mining Park
VIRGINIA CITY Fourth Ward School MuseumPO Box 4 (537 South "C" Street) Virginia City, NV 89440 Tel: 775- 847-0975; Fax: 775-847-1011 Website: http://www.fourthwardschool.com/ *
Mackay Mansion
Marshall Mint & Museum
Virginia & Truckee Railroad
Way It Was Museum
WASHOE VALLEY Bowers Mansion4005 US Highway 395, Washoe Valley, NV 89704 Tel: 775-849-0201 Website: None. (Information from Nevada Commission on Tourism, http://www.travelnevada.com/ , under Activities; Attractions & Museums; Reno-Tahoe Country; Carson City) Built in 1864 for Sandy Bowers, the first millionaire on the Comstock Lode. * WINNEMUCCA Humboldt County Museum175 W Jungo Road and Maple Avenue, Winnemucca, NV 89445 Tel: 775-623-2912 Website: n/a* YERINGTON Lyon County Museum215 S. Main Street, Yerington, NV 89447 Tel: 775-463-2245 Website: http://www.yerington.net/museum.html New natural history display, featuring a gomphothere. * Other States Exhibits and Tours
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