Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada's only accredited art museum, in a black cliff-like building two blocks off Virginia Street. Strong on art about landscape and environment.
The building is worth the visit on its own — a dark, faceted block modelled on the Black Rock Desert's geology, dropped into a downtown of casino towers and surface parking.
The programme leans toward art about land, environment and the American West, and the museum runs a research centre devoted to it. That focus makes it a more coherent institution than a general regional museum, and a more interesting one if you have arrived in Nevada with any curiosity about the place.
There is a café on site run by a local bakery, and the public areas are wheelchair accessible.
Good for
- An afternoon that is not a casino floor
- Understanding the landscape you have flown into
- Architecture
Worth knowing first
- Closed on Mondays and national holidays.
- Paid admission, unlike most of what this guide recommends downtown.
- Where
- 160 W Liberty St, Reno, NV
- Neighborhood
- Downtown Reno
- On site
- Contemporary art · Art + Environment research centre · Café · Indoor