With over 56,000 votes cast, the W.M. Keck Earth Science and Mineral Engineering Museum was in the Sierra Nevada. The “Best of Sierra Nevada” competition is in its second year.
"It is a great honor to be recognized by our community in this way," Garrett Barmore, Mackay Mines Endowed Curator of the Keck Museum, said. "I am grateful for this show of support, and hope this honor will bring more visitors through our doors to learn more about Nevada's geologic history."
The Keck Museum was established in 1908 and has over 100,000 items in its collection, including fossils of Nevada’s state fossil, the ichthyosaur. It has three collecting areas: rocks and minerals, paleontological specimens and mining history.
“The Keck Museum not only preserves Nevada’s history, but it’s also a part of it,” Barmore said.
The Keck Museum is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, and on the first Saturday of the month from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. More information, including information about booking field trips, is available at the Keck Museum website.
