Discovery Children's Museum

This guide traces how two separate Las Vegas civic groups, the Junior League and the Allied Arts Council, discovered they'd dreamed up the same hands-on museum and joined forces instead of competing. It follows their pilot mall exhibit through the 1990 opening of the original Lied Discovery Children's Museum downtown, and the funding push that eventually moved it to Symphony Park in 2013. Listen for how a fading downtown location became the museum you're walking through now.