{"id":3142,"date":"2020-11-04T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vegas-with-an-edge\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2020-11-04T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T15:24:02","slug":"since-you-asked-a-few-good-museums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/since-you-asked-a-few-good-museums\/","title":{"rendered":"Since You Asked \u2014 A Few Good Museums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who goes to Vegas to walk around museums? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

History fans (and nerds) like me, for one. I spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, so I have more freedom than most to do what interests me, which leads us first to the National Atomic Testing Museum, located on East Flamingo Road just past Paradise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re curious about Las Vegas\u2019 non-gaming history, this museum is definitely worth a visit. It relates the entire story of the southern Nevada\u2019s time as a testing ground for the U.S. government\u2019s weapons program during the Cold War. It also explores the development of atomic weapons in general. There are many interactive exhibits and if you can get past the idea that you\u2019re giving up a couple of hours of valuable Vegas time, it\u2019s actually quite fascinating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a 20- to 30-minute walk or super-quick cab ride from mid-Strip. Tickets are $22 and because of the pandemic, they\u2019re currently being sold only online with a time-window reservation to control capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Titanic<\/em> buffs, or even just fans of the movie, the exhibit on the second level of Luxor is a must-see. Where else can you view actual artifacts from the doomed ship? That\u2019s really all you need to know. The exhibit is open Thursday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at Luxor. Tickets are a bit steep at $32, but various discounts are available if you look hard enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it\u2019s no longer there, but about five years ago, the Tropicana hosted a touring exhibit from the John F. Kennedy Museum. I\u2019m a big JFK buff, so that was my favorite \u201cmuseum\u201d in Las Vegas. There were replicas of the Oval Office and Air Force One, in addition to many personal items that had belonged to John and Jackie Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All in all, I encourage you to give some of Las Vegas\u2019s culture a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who goes to Vegas to walk around museums? History fans (and nerds) like me, for one. I spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, so I have more freedom than most to do what interests me, which leads us first to the National Atomic Testing Museum, located on East Flamingo Road just past Paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":2412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1083],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}