The Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum offers three-dimensional, interactive displays and exhibits, photographs, artifacts, and oral histories of the men and women who built Hoover Dam.

Welcome To The
Boulder City /Hoover Dam Museum
Located In The Historic Boulder Dam Hotel

The Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum tells the story of the Boulder Canyon Project as it was experienced by the men and women who braved the desolation of the Southern Nevada desert to build Hoover Dam and Boulder City.

The Museum's three-dimensional, interactive displays and exhibits describe the great social and economic forces surrounding the 1929 Stock Market Crash and Depression that drove thousands of unemployed citizens from their homes into the isolation of the Nevada desert where the Boulder Canyon Project was one of the few places in the United States where men could find work.

Photographs, artifacts, oral histories, and the sounds of Hoover Dam construction ringing off the walls of Black Canyon provide a sense of the complexity, danger, and immense scale of the construction project, as well as a picture of ordinary life in an extraordinary time and place.

Listen as these pioneers tell about their lives in Boulder City and down at the Hoover Dam construction site in the desperate years of the early 1930s.

Mothers describe how they set up households in the sandy wastes along the Colorado River. Dam workmen tell stories of the dangers they faced building Hoover Dam, an engineering project unlike any attempted before.

How did they live? How did these people survive 120-degree heat in the summer and below-freezing temperatures in the winter?

How did they care for their children? How did they get back and forth to work? How much money did they earn in Boulder City, a town completely controlled by the federal government? What did their homes look like? What happened if workmen were injured or killed on the job?

Visit the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum to find out ...

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Saturday
12 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday
Closed: New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas

Around Boulder City

Enjoy historic photos and information about Boulder City in this exciting new book!

Written by Cheryl Ferrence for the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association.

Now available!

Contact Us to order!

Canyon Ghosts

In 1997 the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association commissioned Austine Wood-Comarow to create a limited edition of 50 polages depicting construction of Hoover Dam. Until Association member Steve Cottrell suggested this fund raising endeavor and named the piece Austine created, she had never included Hoover Dam in her artwork.

In Canyon Ghosts high-scalers are working on the walls of Black Canyon while other workmen are being lowered to the canyon floor. In the distance, a steam locomotive chugs into the construction site. This scene slowly dissolves into another image revealing the completed dam with Lake Mead settled behind it and the Colorado River meandering into the foreground.

Austine Wood's Ghost Canyon Polage.
Contact Us to find out how you
can own this treasure!

To learn more about Austine Wood and polage, visit her web site at www.austine.com

Canyon Ghosts, 19” in diameter including a light box, may be purchased only through the Boulder City Museum and Historical Association for $3,500. Half this amount is retained by the Association to fund operation of the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum. Because the Association is a non-profit organization, there is no sales tax.

Boulder City Museum and Historical Association
Located in the Boulder Dam Hotel
1305 Arizona Street, Boulder City, Nevada 89005
P.O. Box 60516, Boulder City, Nevada 89006-0516
Phone: (702) 294-1988 | Fax: (702) 294-4380
E-mail: info@bcmha.org