Lights, camera… Nevada history! 📸
Be part of something special this Saturday, May 16 at the Nevada State Museum, Carson City.
We’re skipping the staged shots and capturing the real experience—families exploring, kids discovering, and visitors connecting with Nevada’s past in their own way.
Here’s how it works: ✨ Visit anytime during regular hours ✨ Opt in to be photographed (waiver required) ✨ Explore freely while candid moments are captured
Your visit helps us tell Nevada’s story in a more authentic way and inspire others to do the same. We hope to see you there!
Happy #FossilFriday!
Many people aren't aware that camels actually originated in North America over 40 million years ago. Its only at the end of the last Ice Age (~10,000 years ago) that they went extinct here.
Camels and llamas on other continents can trace their origins to ancestors in North America. We have a long history of camel fossils in Nevada.
One of the most recent examples are found in the deposits of the Las Vegas Formation in southern Nevada, ~14,000 year old.
Take a stroll through our ghost town. 🏚 Many of the artifacts here came from actual ghost towns in Nevada.
#GhostTown #Nevada #History #VisitCarsonCity
Happy #FossilFriday!
Camels have a long and interesting evolutionary history in North America, including Nevada. The giant camel, Camelops hesternus, was a common Ice Age animal in the Great Basin. Camels went extinct in North America at the end of the Ice Age ~10,000 years ago, only their cousins who made it to Asia, Africa and South America persist to today.
Picture 1: Camelops molar from what is now @iceagefossilsstatepark
Picture 2: Artist rendition of Camelops, By Sergiodlarosa, CC BY 3.0 via wikipedia.com
Come see other cool prehistoric creatures who called Nevada home through Geologic Time in Nevada's Changing Earth Gallery.
Once upon a time there was an old male Columbian mammoth. One day as he walked through the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, he got stuck in a muddy waterhole. He tried to free himself but soon tired of struggling and died. He was forgotten by the world… until 25,000 years later when some scientists found him.
They lovingly brought him to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.
Today thousands of people a year stand in awe of him - the largest Colombian Mammoth on exhibition in the world. He will not be forgotten. 🦣
Before Nevada was a sagebrush ocean, it was a real ocean. Part of the Devonian Sea to be exact. 365 million years ago, where we stand now was sea floor and it was the Age of Fish. 🐟🐡🐠🐋🦈
By Jan Loverin, Curator of Clothing and Textiles
This rare @unevadareno@nevadabsb uniform was donated to the Nevada State Museum. It was worn Linford Riley of Yerington, who played right field and short stop for the University’s team. He graduated in 1919 with degrees in engineering and agriculture.
Riley was born in Mason Valley, a veteran of World War II, and served in the Nevada Legislature from 1952-1954.
The two-piece uniform is a pinstriped gray wool flannel, made by A.G. Spaulding and Bros. The shirt features short sleeves, standing collar and center front placket with Nevada applied diagonally across the front. The trousers are knickers, gathered at the knee, allowing his socks to be shown, which was a popular design feature of baseball uniforms at the time. This uniform is in exceptional condition with only a small hole in the left leg near the dirt stain, where he probably slid.
Special Tours of the Marjorie Russell Clothing and Textile Center are available upon request.
The Nevada State Museum received a donation of an incredibly rare artifact, from the town of Gold Hill (just south of Virginia City): a brass seal used for official business prior to the establishment of Nevada statehood. The stamp was found in Aurora, Nevada in the 1950s, more than 130 miles southwest of Gold Hill, and kept by the donor’s family until donating to the Nevada State Museum yesterday. We are happy to add this extraordinary item to our artifact collection, and will be researching the history behind this artifact more in depth.
Artifact details: Brass seal/stamp, town of Gold Hill, Nevada Territory. Circa 1862. 1 ¼” diameter with mounting boss on top.
Artifact details: Brass seal/stamp, town of Gold Hill, Nevada Territory. Circa 1862. 1 ¼” diameter with mounting boss on top.
