The Neon Museum
Read Las Vegas through rescued signs. Restored pieces glow beside stabilized but unlit signs, making preservation choices visible.
Artwork inspired by Robert Cole Caples
The Boneyard preserves casino, motel, restaurant, and civic signs as designed objects whose typefaces, sheet metal, bulbs, neon tubes, animation, and scars record changing streets and businesses. Restored pieces glow beside stabilized but unlit signs, making preservation choices visible.
Reserve a timed evening visit for illuminated signs, or choose daylight when paint, fabrication, and weathering are easier to study. The outdoor collection closes or modifies tours for dangerous heat, wind, lightning, and air quality; phone photography is welcomed, but conventional cameras and large bags are restricted.
- Setting
- Las Vegas
- Collection
- Read Las Vegas through rescued signs
- Allow
- 1½–3 hours
Quick guide
- Core comparison
- Boneyard and Brilliant ↔ Look for lettering before celebrity stories
- Second-look plan
- Las Vegas context
The Neon Museum: start with fabrication and look closer
- Start with fabrication
- Look for lettering before celebrity stories
- Look closer
- Boneyard and Brilliant!
- Plan for
- Reserve a timed evening visit for illuminated signs, or choose daylight when paint, fabrication, and weathering are easier to study
- Leave with
- One clear connection between boneyard and brilliant! and Nevada
Good to know
The outdoor collection closes or modifies tours for dangerous heat, wind, lightning, and air quality; phone photography is welcomed, but conventional cameras and large bags are restricted.
Notice these
- Boneyard and Brilliant!
- Look for lettering before celebrity stories
- Las Vegas context