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The Nevada State Museum was established in 1866. Initially, the building functioned as the U.S. Mint that coined over $49, 000,000 until 1893. This Mint served the country for over 20 years and also produced over 56 million gold and silver coins during 1870-1890. However, it was later converted to a museum. At present, the Nevada State Museum hosts nearly 250,000 visitors every year. The Nevada State Museum is one among the 10 best regional museums of the West.
The major attraction inside the Museum is the life-size replica of an Imperial Mammoth that was sealed 17,000 years ago. This mammoth was finally excavated from the Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in the year 1972. Visitors can also walk through a timeline of Nevada history or watch several rare sea creatures like coyote, golden eagle, mountain lion, black bear, and badger. The Museum also houses a life sized ghost town and an underground silver mine where the visitors can view the actual equipment that was used to stamp gold and silver coins mined from the Comstock Lode.
Other impressive features of the Museum include a 6-ton coin press, a set of rare “CC” mint mark coins, a walk-through Devonian Sea, the U.S.S. Nevada silver service, and an amazing plate tectonics video. The rock specimens and field photographs in the famous Earth Science Gallery in the Museum reflect Nevada’s geological history from 1,750 million years ago to nearly 40 million years ago. The reconstruction of the Great Basin Cave is yet another impressive exhibit in the Museum. The Nevada State Museum, thus, aims to preserve the Native American Heritage and Nevada’s history from the frontier days to the present.
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