The Lost City Museum, is located south of Overton Nevada. The museum houses an extensive collection of Virgin Anasazi artifacts. Built on the ruin of an actual Virgin Anasazi pueblo, the museum has a reconstruction what that pueblo may have looked like many centuries ago.

There is a $3.00 entry fee to get into the museum which is more than worth it. There is a small gift shop in the museum. 

There are rare and outstanding books, rare Nevada State Museum archeological monographs. For the true 'tourist', they even some of the same kind of trinkets that the Dutch must have bought Manhattan island with.

There are some limited edition pen and ink prints by a Rosemarie Iliano available here. These prints are so good that they alone would make the ride worth it. There is other high quality art work to be found here.

The Anasazi
The Anasazi are a well known and interesting prehistoric culture that existed in prehistoric times throughout the northwest part of the Southwest US.

Later Anasazi groups constructed and lived in cliff dwellings such as Mesa Verde. The designs on the pottery made and used by the Anasazi are also intriguing. After occupying vast tracts of the Southwest the Anasazi abandoned many areas leaving behind their ruins, pottery and other signs of substantial and long term occupation.

Many questions exist as to why the Anasazi culture left areas such as the Moapa Valley.  Signs of warfare, disease, invasion and other factors which would likely account for such a shift in population are not apparent. 

The museum outstanding exhibits of the pottery and artifacts found by early 20th century archeologist, Mark Harrington. We show small parts of that collection.