True-to-Life Exhibits

The museum truly brings the past to life and its changing displays and programs involve the community and our guests in preserving these important pages in the history of the settling of the West. At the museum, you will see:

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Displays that represent the day-to-day life of the valley's earliest inhabitants to the "entrymen" farmers and ranchers that came to farm the newly- reclaimed lands of the Newlands Project

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Reminders of the hardships the pioneers faced as they crossed the Forty-Mile Desert

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One of the few remaining Springfield Steam Road Rollers used in building Lahontan Dam

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Antique carriages, fire engines and more!

Tule Hut Exhibit
This Tule Hut exhibit features a variety hand-woven baskets as well as: (hanging from left to right) Cradle Board, Roasting Basket for Pine Nuts, Woven Water Pitcher covered with pine pitch to make it waterproof.


This Pioneer Kitchen exhibit shows
what
life was like in Churchill County around
the turn of the 20th century.


A new exhibit installed in January of 1999 allowed the museum staff to reinterpret
three events in Churchill County history. Part of the exhibit educates
viewers as to how the Paiute peoples survived in this area.


The two other subjects within this exhibit include tales of emigrants crossing the
dreaded 40-Mile Desert in the 1850s and wildlife in the Stillwater Wildlife Refuge.

Courtesy Churchill County Museum
Wedding Dress Exhibit

Courtesy Churchill County Museum

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