History
Lost City Museum was constructed for the National Park Service as the Boulder Dam Park Museum in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps for Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) artifacts excavated from sites along the Muddy River in the Moapa Valley before Lake Mead inundated the area. In 1953, it was turned over to the State of Nevada and renamed the Lost City Museum (LCM). LCM now holds one of the largest collections of Western Branch Virgin Anasazi artifacts, one of the least studied regions in the southwest. It includes ceramics, baskets, and objects of wood, bone, shell, and stone. Although the primary focus of the museum is the ancient inhabitants of the area, to serve the modern community members, LCM also has smaller collections of prehistoric and historic Southern Paiute made objects and Euro-American pioneer artifacts representing the people who began immigrating to the Valley in the 1860s.
Specialties
The Lost City Museum studies, preserves, and protects prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) and other cultural sites and artifacts of Southern Nevada. The museum strives to educate Nevada residents and visitors from around the world about the rich cultural history of Nevada.