The Clark County Museum

 Henderson, NV

You can't lead a fake horse to water but you can try to feed it rocks.

Learning About Clark County

Today we did the 30 minute drive to Henderson, NV to visit The Clark County Museum.  The museum costs $2 and is TOTALLY worth it if you have the time.  The exhibits go from early settlers trying to steal land from people that were already here all the way to present day in the museum then you can step out to their nature area and visit preserved historic buildings from the area.  There is also a ghost town that we didn't visit because we had already gotten our $2 worth.

Dire Wolves lived in the area before they all died.

A Camelops Skull.

Jon, destroyer of primitive toys!

Historic gambling machines

I wonder how many swizzle sticks I threw away before I started saving them?

Place your bets!

A cool looking early black jack machine.  Now I want to go to a retro themed casino!

The last part of the museum leans into McCarran, Now Harry Reid, Airport.  The name change is talked about but they don't mention that the name change was overdue and that Pat McCarran was racist, xenophobe, and an anti-Semite.  

  

Check out this awesome flight attendant outfit from Western Airlines in the 80s.  Flight attendants only wore this uniform on inbound flights to Hawaii from the mainland.

I didn't get any info on this uniform but I thought her hair looked sultry so I snapped a photo.

This isn't DB Cooper.

Outside, they had a nice water feature that brought in the birds.

There was a cool locomotive on display.  We knew what 0-6-0 meant from our visit to The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore.

Check out this cool cocktail shaker!

That cool Caterpillar logo!

Check out this awesome Union Pacific Dining Setting!

How do creepy dolls like this end up as kids toys?

We visited different houses from different eras from the area.

They were furnished with period pieces

Looks like a party!

We also went into an historic wedding chapel.

Let me tell you about life on the road!

That's it for today.  It was a great museum and you should go.  If you missed, A Food Truck and a Speakeasy, check it out.

Cincinnati Union Terminal

 Cincinnati, OH

Exploring The Ice Age at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science

Cincinnati Museum Center

Today we went to Union Terminal to visit it and The Cincinnati Museum Center.  Union Terminal is a registered historic place that services Amtrak 6 days a week in the middle of the night and houses multiple museums.  We bought tickets for $25 each and they include The Cincinnati History Museum, The Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, and The Children's Museum.  

They have done a great job restoring Union Terminal.  It's the best part of the whole thing in my opinion and you can go in and walk around for free.  The Natural History Museum was pretty good but the Cincinnati History Museum was mostly just a model train and a miniature version of Cincinnati.  There were some cool things but it wasn't the strongest history museum in my opinion.  We didn't visit the Children's museum as we are adults.

Some Amazing Art Deco going on here

 

Check out this lobby outside of the rest rooms!

Some great neon

The Amtrak part of the station is open from midnight to 4am.

The Cincinnati History Museum

More neon

There was a trolley with video screens for windows.  It was exactly like The Hogwarts Express at Islands of Adventure (no not really)

E-Scooter or E-Bike?  Choose wisely

Here is a better shot of those screens.  This trolley was inundated by children on a fieldtrip so I couldn't get many shots.

Even con artists get things into museums at times.  They forgot to mention that this thing was only introduced to create doubt for high speed rail.  It was never intended to be real transit.  Elon makes cars and doesn't want competition.

The Cincinnati Natural History and Science Museum

Check out how HOT we are!

Donna blowing smoke rings

I saw this and thought, "I can imagine moving every month!"

We descended into the Space area (up and down are relative)

Donna makes moon craters

I liked the carpet in this room

The museum had a cool Ice Age area.  It felt like a queue for a ride.

The Cave area was cool too.  There was a place were you could measure if you were "small" enough to explore the critical path of the cave.  I was good to go!

More Art Deco elements on our way out

That was it for today.  We might go back to Union Terminal to visit the cool ice cream shop that is only open on the weekends.  Also we might not.  Who knows?

If you missed Walking Cincinnati check it out here.