Beatty Museum
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  417 Main St, Beatty, NV 89003, United States | |
| Established | May 1995 |
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| Location | Beatty, Nevada, United States |
| Coordinates | 36°54′54″N 116°45′32″W / 36.915°N 116.759°W |
| Type | History museum |
| Visitors | 35,000 per year |
| Founder | Claudia Reidhead, Vonnie Gray, and Mary Revert |
| Website | www |
Beatty Museum, also known as Beatty Museum and Historical Society, is a volunteer-run local history museum in Beatty, Nevada that showcases the history of the Bullfrog mining district (Rhyolite, Bullfrog, Gold Center, Transvaal, and Springdale), including its townspeople and their way of life.[1][2] The museum was founded in 1995 and has experienced several changes in location since its founding.[3]
Beatty Museum was founded by three women, Claudia Reidhead, Vonnie Gray, and Mary Revert, who wanted to preserve Beatty’s history as an ex-mining district. At first, it operated from a cottage owned by Reidhead until the museum moved to a nearby building that was previously used by the local water department in 1996 due to the increasing number of collection it holds.[3] However this building quickly no longer suffices as the museum collection expanded, and they moved again until finally settling in a building that used to be a church before the museum purchased it from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas.[4]