Nevada State Museum and Railroad Museum in Carson City open on the Fourth of July
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Wed, 07/03/2019 - 10:27am
The Nevada State Museum in Carson City will be open with regular hours on the Fourth of July and has a busy month planned with a host of events revolving around the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The Nevada Railroad Museum is also open July 4 offering a parade of trains, rides and more.
“Besides the classic exhibits Nevada State Museum is famous for — the Mint, the mine, the ghost town and the Under One Sky exhibit — we also have a special exhibit, ‘Fueling the Boom,’ that tells the little-known story of Chinese woodcutters providing a valuable service that helped power the mining booms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,” said Myron Freedman, director of the Nevada State Museum.
The museum at 600 North Carson Street will be open Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the holiday weekend.
On Friday, live demonstrations of Historic Coin Press No. 1 will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The press will be minting commemorative medallions of the Promontory Car, also known as Coach 17, which was present at the driving of the golden and silver spikes at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869.
Museum visitors can purchase a pure silver planchet in the museum store for $60 and have it minted on the coin press.
Meanwhile The Nevada Railroad Museum is also open July 4 and through the weekend offering steam rides, beginning at 9:45 a.m. with the “Parade of Trains” featuring the museum’s workhorse steam locomotive, No. 25, the 1910 McKeen Motor Car and the 1875 wood-burning standard gauge locomotive Inyo. Also operating this weekend will be the 1875 narrow-gauge locomotive Glenbrook. From 10:40 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, the No. 25 and McKeen Motor Car will be making alternating passenger runs on the museum’s tracks, allowing visitors to ride both trains.
Visitors can purchase all-inclusive wristbands, that include unlimited train rides for the day and admission into the museum, where they can view the museum’s latest exhibit, “The Transcontinental Railroad: What a Difference it Made.” One of the showpieces of the exhibition is V&T Coach 17, the only rail car still in existence that was at Promontory Summit for the driving of the Golden Spike in May 1879.
Wristbands are priced as follows: Adults 18 years and older, $15; Friends of the Museum Members, $9; Children 12 to 17, $9; Children 4 to 11, $5; Children 3 and under, free.
Meanwhile, Fourth of July activities are slated Thursday through Sunday at Mills Park in Carson City, including fireworks and a carnival. Go here for the activities lineup throughout the region.
- Carson City
- $12
- adults
- Anniversary
- car
- carnival
- carson
- Carson Street
- children
- City
- Coin Press No. 1
- Coin Press No.1
- Community
- day
- Driving
- events
- Exhibit
- exhibition
- Fireworks
- fourth of july
- Free
- FRIDAY
- friends
- ghost
- Glenbrook
- historic
- holiday
- Hours
- Inyo
- July
- July 5
- Latest
- live
- May
- McKeen motor car
- Members
- Mills Park
- mining
- mint
- moon
- museum
- Museum Store
- Nevada
- Nevada State Museum
- Parade
- photos
- railroad
- saturday
- service
- silver
- Special Exhibit
- state
- STEAM
- steam locomotive
- The Nevada State Museum
- trains
- Utah
- Weekend
- Coin press
- V&T
