The Sports Hall of Fame of Las Vegas is located at the Las Vegas Club Hotel & Casino and has the largest in the USA collection of sport memorabilia, enough to impress any other museum of the kind. A huge amount of autographed balls, photos, globes, jerseys and other sports equipment are on display. The museum also has a very large baseball collection. What makes it even more fantastic is that the place is open around the clock.

The main thing that characterizes Las Vegas is its multitude of signs. Nowadays they are almost all lit by LED or LCD bulbs, so if you want to see the old signs, make an appointment to visit the Neon Museum.

Here you will find neon signs that date back to the nineteen thirties when the craze began. Once they graced the façades of casinos and shops. There is a huge variety of them in the 2 acre outdoor Young Electric Sign Company Boneyard, where they wait to be restored in the museum and set up in various areas of the city. There are over 150 signs waiting to be given a new lease of life.

You can see some of them without visiting the museum, as they have been set up in and around Freemont Street Experience. You can see the Hacienda Horse and Rider which graced the Hacienda Hotel in 1967, the Aladdin’s Lamp from the Aladdin Hotel in 1966, the 1961 sign from the Flame Restaurant, the Nevada Hotel sign that was first lit up in 1950 and Dot’s Flowers from a 1949 florist shop.

These signs are more than just pretty street decorations, they tell the history of changing times and tastes in Las Vegas.

Since its establishment in 1990, this museum has been voted the best museum of Las Vegas for many years. It is huge - about 23,000 sq feet - and has over 100 interactive exhibits on various themes and subjects including nature, sciences and humanities that are both educating and entertaining to the young visitors. Your kids will surely love this place if you take them there.

You will find the Las Vegas Natural History Museum on the “Culture Corridor” in Downtown Vegas. This wonderful museum is well worth a lengthy visit and will delight adults and children alike.

The museum is separated into eight distinctive areas with permanent exhibitions and a 9th area that hosts a summer exhibition. In the Las Vegas Founder’s African Gallery you can see a magnificent recreation of the Serengeti with model animals at a watering hole and lions attacking their prey, an African Rainforest with animal and plant life and “Out of Africa” which shows extinct primates.

“Treasures of Egypt” features a recreation of Tutankhamen’s tomb and documentaries giving details about his life. There are replicas of the Golden Shrine and the Golden Throne. An interactive area allows you to “scan” a mummy and you can see the results of a real mummy scan. The International Wildlife Gallery has models of antelopes, bears, wild dogs, deer and big cats, along with details about how they lived and adapted to their environment.

The Marine Life Gallery has replicas of sharks and other big fish hanging from the ceiling. There is a 3000 gallon aquarium with live sharks and sting-rays in it, as well as other, smaller aquariums full of exotic fish and marine plant-life. In this section you will also find spiders, snakes, lizards and scorpions.

The kids will love the Prehistoric –Life Gallery with its animated T-Rex and other dinosaurs. There is an ichthyosaur, a marine creature that swam in the waters that covered Nevada. The Wild Nevada Gallery has a recreation of the Mojave Desert with animals and plants that live there.

In the MGM/Mirage Young Scientist Centre there is an interactive exhibition where the kids can play the part of a paleontologist and “dig” for fossils or explore the ocean in the role of a marine biologist. The Geology Gallery is a wonder of fossils, minerals and semi-precious stones.

The summer exhibition, “The Pharaoh’s Tomb” takes you through an interactive maze where you will learn about Egyptian tombs from the age of the pharaohs to the present day. The tour is conducted by torchlight and at the end you can see the film “The Mummy” staring Boris Karloff.

The Walker African-American Museum is the only African-American museum in Nevada. It recounts the history and heritage of African Americans. The museum exhibits some unique artifacts, works of art and other related memorabilia. There is also a gift shop.