Wish you could go to the Neon Museum right now?

Thank you Sonya & will do!

Ann

 

The Neon Museum will credit every member an extension for every day they are closed. Their membership rates are very reasonable. I highly encourage everyone to support them if possible:

 

I have a whole gallery of pictures from the Neon Boneyard, somewhere. I seem to have temporarily misplaced them.

I'll post a few if I can find them.

 

Wow. I was just listening to the Hard Rock audio. This looks to be a full tour, with curated narration. Thanks for sharing the link. I have been a member for 2 years and my membership just expired. Will renew.

 

Good to know. That was the main reason why I didn't renew my membership now as it is one year from the date you join and I didn't want to join now and waste potentially a month or two.

 

Here are some photos I took at the Neon Museum. The lovely ladies in the photos are my daughter and her best friend

 

Thank you for sharing these photos. Love that place. I may add some as well from my trip there over Thanksgiving. I took my goddaughter, BFF from law school (her mom) and my GD's cousin.

 

Love the nighttime pictures! My one and only visit was during the day. I need to get back there!

 

When you go back, make sure to see "Brilliant" while you're there. It's very worth it.

 

Thank you for the pictures.......convinced me I need to go at nite.

 

That is such a cool place! I went with some friends in January to catch the Tim Burton exhibit and told many more to check it out before it ended. Alas, two parties have had their trip dates come and gone while stuck at home. I'll have to let them know about the online viewing.

Thank you for letting us know!

 

My favorite sign -- EVER!!! Still not happy about Stardust being torn down. I can't wait until they finish restoring the sign with all of the amazing colors.

 

Agreed. It's one of those things that doesn't necessarily seem like "culture", in the same way that people think of places like the Met and such, but they serve an incredibly vital purpose in preserving Vegas history. I've been at various Benefactor levels for a while now.

I do wish their membership system was a little better-organized -- at the Met, for example, I had a dual membership that had two cards, one for "44inarow" and one for "guest of 44inarow". Neon Museum, by contrast, gives you one card with your name on it and one that's just blank, and you can only book one appointment at a time on the website, so every time I want to take a guest there, it's a whole production where I have to get on the phone with them. I do find it amusing that their lowest level is "Sahara", whereas their most expensive level is "Las Vegas Club". $5,000 is a lot for a level named after a place that had shampoo dispensers bolted to the wall.

 

As an aside, the backstory to Terrible's has always been hilarious to me. Supposedly when he was buying into one of the markets (I want to say the original Chicago-area gas station) someone was like, "Oh, no, not that terrible Herbst." And he just kept it.

 

“We are excited to announce that visitors from around the world can visit The Neon Museum from the comfort of their home by accessing our 360 Virtual Tour. This tour allows visitors to “move” freely throughout the Neon Boneyard’s sign collection, exploring more than 130 informational hotspots.”

https://www.neonmuseum.org/virtualtour

 

Great information. thank you for posting.