text: Based on the other Yelpers reviews I had to check this place out Anyone who knows me knows I cannot turn down a good history museumnnSo I ventured off the strip into the land of where real Las Vegas people live to check this place out And I am certainly glad I didnnThis museum has what I can imagine is an interesting identity crisis going on in a way I am all too familiar with My guess is their board of directors is going in two different directions One is the aging group of major donors who are responsible for everything on teh west side of the museumall the stuff that was probably there since the s at least Taxidermied animals aging interpretive texts on both natural historical features and native populations in early Nevada historynnThen this museum has some very dynamic and new blood pumping through its veins with terrific and innovative interpretation I LOVED the bit on Vegas being a hour city and they had many interesting interactive ways of expressing the oral history collections and artifacts I also liked in the fossil room the stations to do crayon rubbings of the various skeletal specimens they have nnThis museum also has numerous rooms that have VERY comfortable almost living room like accomodations to view videos on their topics They included these in the Bats exhibition as well as the City and historical exhibits Great ideas a lot of which I will be brining home to my own museum nnI definately cannot wait until my next visit to Vegas so I can share this hidden gem with my family and friends and to have more time to look around and see what I missed this time around