School Field Trips

Explore the great state of Nevada with a field trip to the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas!

Field trips are for any school-aged group and can be self-guided or guided.

Field Trips to NSMLV offer:

  • FREE admission to the museum
  • Exhibits on Nevada’s natural history and cultural history
  • Hands-on activities in the exhibits
  • Themed worksheets for self-guided tours
  • Museum staff led activities*
  • Guided tours for groups of 30 or less*
  • Satisfies K-12 Social Studies and Science Nevada Academic Content Standards

    *At an additional cost and dependent on staff availability.

Plan Your NSMLV Field Trip

Field trips are available Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays between 10 am through 12 pm, or 9 am for groups of 40 or less only visiting the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas. Field trips requesting a guided tour or activity must be booked at least three weeks before the requested field trip date.

Choose Your Experience

Tours are adaptable to any grade level and designed to meet the Nevada Academic Content Standards.

Natural Nevada

What makes the flora and fauna found in Nevada flourish in a diverse landscape of extremes? Explore Nevada’s unique topography and biology through time to see how they have survived by adapting to the environment.

In this tour, students will explore the geology of Nevada and how the landscape has changed throughout the passage of time. They will look at fossils and explore how wildlife has adjusted to survive such drastic environmental changes. This tour can also address the natural resources found in Nevada and how industrial developments have shaped the Silver State’s history through mining.

Nevada Past to Present

People have called Nevada home for centuries. Uncover their stories and how they helped build the Nevada we know today. Take a trip through a timeline of Nevada and learn about Nevada’s first peoples, the pioneers who made Nevada their home, how Nevada became a state, and how Las Vegas developed into the entertainment capital of the world.

This tour will focus on the early days of Nevada. Students will discover the history of the land, wildlife, people, and industrial innovations that have developed the nation’s seventh-largest state.

Nevada State Symbols

What is now Nevada was once home to Ichthyosaurs! This tour option walks students through the State Symbols that make Nevada home. Journey through when this part of the Earth was under water, learn about the minerals, plants, and animals that also call Nevada home, and learn how Nevada came to be known as the Battle Born State.

Short on time but still want to learn about the great state of Nevada? Ask for our quick tour option of Nevada’s State Symbols.

NOW AVAILABLE: Old Spanish Trail: Connecting a Network of Paths and Civil Rights in Las Vegas gallery worksheets. Email educationnsmlv@nevadaculture.org to inquire.

Booking Your Field Trip

We will begin processing field trip requests for the 2024-2025 school year on Monday, July 29th.

All field trips require a reservation. You will receive a confirmation packet outlining your field trip’s details once your field trip date is confirmed. Whether you are on a self-guided or guided field trip, staff will meet your group at the museum entrance for a quick orientation.

School field trips are available on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, but are limited to no more than 40 students at one time. Field Trips that also include the Springs Preserve will begin at 10 am, otherwise groups of 40 or less visiting the museum can begin at 9 am. Field trips are available for all ages.

PLEASE NOTE: Your reservation with the the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas does not give you access to the rest of the Springs Preserve campus. The Springs book their field trips separately. If you plan on visiting Springs Preserve, please make a separate reservation at the Springs Preserve website here.

To book a school field trip, please click HERE and complete the request form.

Book A Field Trip

State Reimbursement for Transportation

All Nevada public schools are eligible for bus reimbursement to visit a state museum. Funds are available until they run out and are first come, first served. For more information on the reimbursement program, click here.
For more information or questions, please contact educationnsmlv@nevadaculture.org.

Guidelines

  • We request at least one chaperone for every ten students. There is no admission charge for chaperones.
  • Students should always stay with their teacher or chaperone.
  • No food, drinks, or gum are allowed in the galleries. Items can be left at the front desk and picked up before exiting the museum.
  • Students can touch our identified hands-on exhibits, but please touch them gently. If you are unsure whether something can be touched, please ask.
  • Do not sit or climb on the exhibits. If there is a rope or glass in front of an exhibit, please do not touch it.
  • We ask that school groups be courteous to the other museum visitors by using inside voices.
  • Photography is allowed.
  • Students are welcome to shop in the museum store. Students must be accompanied by a chaperone.
Field Trip FAQs

For more information or questions, contact educationnsmlv@nevadaculture.org or call 702-822-8746. To book a non-school group tour, please email infonsmlv@nevadaculture.org.