Museum detailing the history of Dayton; located in Nevada's second oldest schoolhouse.
Built in 1876, the school houses permanent and changing exhibits featuring the history and culture of the Comstock. Handicap accessible.
Culture, History, Historic House, Specialized
History of Julia Bullette, a favored soiled dove of 1860s Virginia City. Displays include vintage erotica, Oriental art and antique medical equipment.
Historic House
History
Built in the 1880s, Piper's Opera House attracted famous stars from Europe and the United States and is listed by the League of Historic Theaters. One of the most significant vintage theaters on the West Coast.
The museum displays the most complete collection of Comstock mining artifacts in the world plus rare photos, lithographs and maps of the Bonanza period.
History, Historic House
Located in Histroic Virginia City Nevada, inside the Original Territorial Enterprise Newpaper Building. The Museum is the original press room for the building. This floor is the only portion of the building which survived the 1875 fire.
Features more than half-a-million dollars worth of gaming memorabilia, including over 100 antique slot machines, cheating devices and gamblers' weapons.
General, History, Specialized
The SSPOM organization was created in 2007 in order to establish a first class museum showcasing the rich history of the American law enforcement profession. Opening in July of 2009 within the historic 1877 Storey County Jail in fun filled Virginia City, Nevada. The museum features the largest known private collection of U.S. law enforcement memorabilia and has fascinated all visitors since opening in 2009.
Attractions include Western/cowboy memorabilia, antique guns, animal mounts, Native American, John Wayne and cavalry displays, outlaw photo gallery and "Spook House".
Theme: Building Communit
Forge connections with peers, share successes, and tackle challenges together. This biennial event leaves museum professionals feeling inspired
Gain insights, strategies, and practical wisdom for elevating your museum or cultural center's influence
Participate in hands-on workshops designed to turn inspiration into actionable strategies. Leave with the tools you need to grow, learn, and make a difference.
Museums exist to cultivate connections. Museums educate visitors, preserve objects, tell stories, create intrigue, and generate curiosity while providing an accessible, relevant, credible space for these exchanges to occur.
It’s a tall order to cultivate varied connections within our communities, which requires continued reflection, learning, resources, change, and intentional engagement. As we approach the United States’s 250th anniversary, let’s reflect on how museums are sites for conversations and civic involvement, how representation can connect rather than fragment people, how museum professionals create a sense of shared identity, and even how museums are simply powerful, tangible, places within our communities.
How are you cultivating connections
We hope you will join us at the 2024 Annual Conference hosted by the Utah Museums Association in partnership with the Utah Division of Arts & Museums.
For more information, please call 202-251-0549 or email info@utahmuseums.org.
FAM 2024 Annual Conference & Exposition will be held
October 13 – 16 in Daytona Beach!!
Please hold these dates. Watch our FAM website for more conference details.
Please join us in Tonopah for NMA’s 2024 conference – Hitting The Lode! Museums Collaborating.
This will be an excellent opportunity for attendees to dig deep as we learn, inspire and exchange ideas about museum practice in the Silver State and beyond
The 2024 Annual Meeting celebrates the coming together of Nevada’s many diverse institutions in the name of collaboration and support of best practices. Attendance to the Annual Meeting is open to museum professionals, leaders, and supporters with the intent that the conference inspires deep thinking, future partnerships and dynamic conversations
Registration now open!
For more information, please email membership@nevadamuseums.org.
CAM is hard at work planning for the 2025 conference, set to take place from February 18–22, 2025 in San Francisco. We look forward to highlighting best practices and innovative ideas from California's museum community
The California Association of Museums is excited to continue offering in-person programming for 2025. We will not be requiring proof of COVID vaccination/s, but highly encourage vaccination and boosters. For the health and safety of our colleagues, masks are also encouraged (but not required). Capacity and spaces will be thoughtfully considered in the planning of this event.
For more information, please email programs@calmuseums.org.