page_title: Carson City, Nevada
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Carson City, Nevada / Geography / Places of interest / Museums
caption_attribution_description: Secret Beach on Lake Tahoe's Nevada side, 2003
context_page_description: Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,274, making it the sixth largest city in Nevada. The majority of the town's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles south of Reno.
  The town began as a stopover for California-bound emigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast. The city has served as Nevada's capital since statehood in 1864; for much of its history it was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in 1950. Before 1969, Carson City was the county seat of Ormsby County. The county was abolished that year, and its territory merged with Carson City. With the consolidation, the city limits extend west across the Sierra Nevada to the California state line in the middle of Lake Tahoe. Like other independent cities in the United States, it is treated as a county-equivalent for census purposes.
context_section_description: Nevada State Capitol – original capitol still housing the governor's offices with museum exhibits
  Nevada State Museum – former branch of the United States Mint featuring rock, mining and prehistoric exhibits, and a recreated Wild West village
  Nevada State Railroad Museum – featuring the Inyo locomotive and relocated Wabuska Railroad Station
  Stewart Indian School – museum collection includes items from former faculty, students and school
  Foreman-Roberts House Museum – Gothic Revival architecture, tours available.
  Sears–Ferris House (not open to public) – home of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., inventor of the Ferris wheel
  Yesterday's Flyers, an aviation museum in Carson City.
  Children's Museum of Northern Nevada – Carson City
caption: Secret Harbor Beach, Lake Tahoe
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