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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the detail.
Casino signs, a motel lobby and decades of craft offer several ways into the story of the Neon Museum.
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A collection of signs
The Neon Museum collects the signs of Las Vegas casinos, motels and businesses. The oldest piece is part of a 1930s sign from the Green Shack restaurant.
Restoring a single sign can take three to six months, which is why many signs in the Boneyard are shown unlit, as they arrived.
The La Concha lobby
The shell-shaped lobby of the La Concha Motel was donated in 2005 and moved to the museum’s site in 2006. Restored from 2011, it now serves as the visitor centre.
Beside it, the Boneyard stretches over the museum’s grounds on Las Vegas Boulevard North, where the land is leased from the city.
A museum in the open air
The Boneyard opened to the general public on 27 October 2012, and by 2023 it welcomed about 200,000 visitors a year.
This history belongs to the place and the people who designed, built and restored the signs. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
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