Lost City Museum

We just received these cool stained-glass feathers in the Museum Store! Come by and check them out! 🪶

We have some cool new things in our Museum Store!

They thought about coming to the museum but decided to enjoy the view from the top of the hill. 🫏

I believe this might be Lost City Museum's Year of the Lizard. So many wanted to be friends with us this summer. 🌞🦎

Check out our new traveling exhibit from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument. On display at Lost City Museum now through July 2025!

New exhibit brings Ice Age to life at Lost City Museum - The Progress Visitors to the Lost City Museum now have something new to look forward to

Annually, the Lost City Museum participates in Blue Star Museums, a program that provides free admission to active-duty U.S. military personnel and their families. The last day the museum will be participating this year is Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

We hope you will be able to visit us before Labor Day!

Check out this cool tarantula hawk that decided to visit us at the museum last Sunday!

Hello friend! Thanks for stopping by Lost City Museum today!

Thanks Clark County Museum for hosting us! 😃

Lucas presents at Clark County Museum - The Progress Fascinating old photos, historic film footage and an entertaining delivery

As promised, the Apparitions of the Ice Age art exhibit was installed today! 🖼️🎨

The Apparitions of the Ice Age is set to be installed in the next few days.

Apparitions of the Ice Age tells a powerful story of change, extinction and survival. The exhibit offers a unique experience that bridges art, science and history, demonstrating how scientific research allows us to understand and reconstruct past environments.

We hope you will be able to enjoy this great exhibit, along with the Tule Springs exhibit during your next visit to the museum!

Lost City Museum is honored to have two great traveling exhibits going on display in our changing gallery at the museum for the next year.

Geology and Paleontology of Tule Springs features interpretive information about the geology, paleontology, and history of scientific expeditions at Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, Nevada. The exhibit features photographs of and real Ice Age (Pleistocene) fossils collected from Tule Springs Fossil Bed in Las Vegas, NV, including a Columbian mammoth tusk and a camel jaw.

This exhibit was installed yesterday afternoon.

The Apparitions of the Ice Age art exhibit is expected to be installed in a few days.

We hope you will be able to enjoy these great exhibits during your next visit to the museum!

Thanks Kara and all of our other great guest lecturers!
Hope we will see you for the 2025 Archaeologist of Southern Nevada lecture series.

Lost City hosts lecture on desert paleolakes - The Progress The Lost City Lecture Series ended with a final presentation about the Paleolakes of Nevada,

Meet our newest curator!

New curator at Lost City Museum - The Progress There is a new face at the Lost City Museum, but many from Mesquite may recognize it.

We hope everyone had a safe holiday yesterday.

Just a reminder: tomorrow is the last talk in our 2024 lecture series.
Please join us at 11 am for Kara Jones' talk on Paleolakes!

The Lost City Museum is open today, July 4, 2024, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.

Just a reminder that this is coming up next week! 😀

Join tus next week on Tuesday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m. for "Lost City Museum: A Hidden Gem on Southern Nevada’s Arrowhead Trail," a free lecture by Virginia Lucas. Learn about the Boulder Dam Park Museum, completed in 1935, which was built to house the artifacts from excavations at Lake Mead. In the early 1950s, the museum transferred to state control, and the name changed to what it is today—the Lost City Museum, which will celebrate its 90th anniversary next year. The presentation will showcase photos from 1925 and 1926 and video clips from the 1920's and 1930's excavations.

The lizards got the memo that we are back open today! 🦎🤣

The museum is still closed as we finish up a few projects. Apparently, the lizards did not get the memo. Sorry my friend, we are closed until Tuesday, July 2nd!

Just a quick heads up: we'll be closed from June 27–30 for some behind-the-scenes work, getting everything shipshape for our big reopening on July 2! Thanks for your patience and support! Don't forget to share this post and let everyone know! 🎨🧼

Our Paleolakes talk is in two weeks! Hope you can join us on July 6!

In case you missed it the first few times we showed it, this will be your last chance (for a while any ways) to see our presentation on the history of Lost City Museum through historical film and photos.

July 9th @ Clark County Museum

Hope you can join us in Henderson!

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Just a reminder that our talk about domestic dogs is tomorrow at 11 am. Hope to see you there!

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Answer: 1st Cervical Vertebra (C1 or Axis). The one on the left is the domestic dog
What is it Wednesday?

One more element of domestic dogs and coyotes in preparation for the lecture "Pre-Contact Domestic Dogs in Moapa Valley" on Saturday! What is the element? Which is which?

Hint: Be sure to look at size. One will be consistently within a range and one will come in numerous sizes.

What is it Wednesday?

One more element of domestic dogs and coyotes in preparation for the lecture "Pre-Contact Domestic Dogs in Moapa Valley" on Saturday! What is the element? Which is which?

Hint: Be sure to look at size. One will be consistently within a range and one will come in numerous sizes.

We do have a few things happening at the museum!

We would like to note that our traveling exhibit is coming from our friends at Tule Springs, not Ice Age. 😀

Upcoming changes at Lost City Museum - The Progress The Lost City Museum is seeing a bit of an overhaul this summer as a new exhibit

We're taking a short break to tidy up! The museum will be closed from June 27–30 for inventory and cleanup. But mark your calendars because we'll be back open to the public on July 2, 2024. Help us spread the word by sharing this post! 🎈🖼️

Even the lizards don't want to be outside today.
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Answer: The first and last pictures are domestic dog, and the middle one is a coyote. One of the easiest ways to determine is to look at the shape of the forehead. Dogs will have a forehead while coyotes do not. Also, looking at the teeth will help as well. Domestic dogs tend to have overcrowded teeth, even the longer snouted dogs. The rest of the skeleton is much harder to determine.

What is it Wednesday?

One of these is not like the other! Leading up to our talk on Domestic Dogs, this week's "What is it?" compares domestic dog to coyote. Two of these crania are domestic dog, and one is a coyote. Which is which?