Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History Review

This museum, which was renovated in the spring of 2012, sits on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus. The museum has an excellent permanent collection of objects that predate the arrival of Europeans in the American Southwest and throughout Mexico. There's also a live reptile exhibit featuring regional lizards and snakes, plus a Xeriscape garden featuring drought-tolerant flora from the four corners of the Earth. For kids, the best experience is the new "archaeology dig" in the museum lobby, where youngsters can jump into a (glorified) sandbox and excavate for cultural treasures.