The Neon Museum

The Neon Museum collects, preserves, studies, and exhibits iconic Las Vegas signs to share the city’s art, culture, and history.

Planning your visit

The Neon Museum is a graveyard for signs, and that is precisely its appeal. Las Vegas demolishes and rebuilds constantly, and the signs that defined its casinos — Stardust, Sahara, the Moulin Rouge, the Golden Nugget, the Silver Slipper — were scrapped as properties were imploded. The museum's Boneyard holds over 250 of them, laid out in a fenced outdoor lot, rusting, cracked and enormous, arranged as a walkable archaeology of American commercial design.

The signs are read as artefacts of graphic design, typography and technology, and the museum's research work covers the craft of neon bending and the sign companies that produced them.

The critical practical point is timing. The Boneyard by day is interesting; the Boneyard at night, when a selection of restored signs are lit, is the reason to come — book the evening slot. Brilliant, the museum's light and sound installation using restored signs, runs seasonally.

Summer daytime temperatures make an outdoor lot punishing, another argument for evening.

Bookable options include night experiences with open-top bus tours and combined formats with night helicopter flights over the Strip. Current availability is listed below.