Vegas Hosts Offbeat, Flashy & Glitzy Museums
Even a visionary like Leonardo DiVinci wouldn’t have foreseen what Las Vegas museums would choose as timeless artifacts.
Vegas is home to many museums. But don’t expect a lot of Monet or Jackson Pollack around here. Instead you will find collections that in another world would have been sent to the giant garbage bins to incinerate.
To give you a clear example, we all know that the legendary Stardust Hotel Casino will turn to a big chunk of dust in 2007 to make way for a newer, bigger structure. But you can revisit the nostalgia when the hotel’s neon sign — the giant cloud-like marquee and 
base support that is currently seen in front of the property on the Strip is turned over to the Neon Museum.
For those of you who don’t know what the Neon Museum is, it’s a boneyard of sorts of many of the old Las Vegas neon signs. The non-profit Neon Museum states their mission as “to collect, preserve, study and exhibit neon signs and associated artifacts to inspire educational and cultural enrichment for diverse members of our international community.”
Other famous neon signs now billeted at the museum include a Binion’s Horseshoe sign with its signature white front and red sidingnd a curvy Golden Nugget Gambling Hall number that includes an arrow pointing to the casino entrance. The oldest known sign here is that of the Normandie Motel, a blue-gray medieval hatchet motif which dates back to the ’40s.
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