BOULDER DAM HOTEL - MUSEUM

Boulder City, Nevada

Located on the 1st floor of the hotel, the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum tells the story of the Boulder Canyon Project as it was experienced by the men and women who braved the desolation of the Southern Nevada desert to build Hoover Dam and Boulder City.  Admission is free to hotel guests.

Photographs, artifacts, oral histories and the sounds of Hoover Dam construction ringing off the walls of Black Canyon provide a sense of the complexity, danger, and immense scale of the construction project, as well as a picture of ordinary life in an extraordinary time and place.

The Museum's three-dimensional, interactive displays and exhibits describe the great social and economic forces surrounding the 1929 Stock Market Crash and Depression that drove thousands of unemployed citizens from their homes into the isolation of the Nevada desert where the Boulder Canyon Project was one of the few places in the United States where men could find work.

Listen as these pioneers tell about their lives in Boulder City and down at the Hoover Dam construction site in the desperate years of the early 1930s.

How did they live? How did these people survive 120-degree heat in the summer and below-freezing temperatures in the winter?

Visit the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum to find out ...

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