A Century of Lost City
Celebrate 100 years of history at the Lost City Museum! This special exhibit explores the Lost City Pageants of 1925 and 1926, which captured public curiosity and drew attention to the archaeological discoveries unfolding in southern Nevada’s Moapa Valley. These pageants helped inspire the creation of the Boulder Dam Park Museum—now the Lost City Museum—in 1935.
Through photos, artifacts, and stories from the pageants, A Century of Lost City reflects on the origins of the museum and traces how community engagement helped shape the preservation of the region’s archaeological history. It also celebrates the museum’s ongoing mission to protect the heritage of the ancestral Puebloan peoples who lived in the region nearly a thousand years ago.
This exhibit is part of America250 Nevada, the statewide commemoration of our nation’s 250th anniversary.
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