The Mirage On line casino could now be closed, however a number of the property’s best-known options will stay on on the Neon Museum, which additionally not too long ago introduced a relocation to downtown Las Vegas.
Onerous Rock Worldwide is redeveloping the property and donating a number of historic objects to the venue. The Neon Museum has been in operation since 1996 and preserves a number of the metropolis’s iconic signage and different artifacts as casinos are closed or make important modifications.
“Onerous Rock could be very happy to contribute The Mirage artifacts to The Neon Museum,” Mirage President Joe Lupo mentioned. “This iconic property that remodeled the Las Vegas Strip may be remembered without end and we recognize them preserving one in every of our metropolis’s best treasures.”
What Is Being Saved?
The Mirage is about to reopen in July 2027 after being redeveloped as a Onerous Rock property. The on line casino was on the forefront of the Vegas mega resort development after opening in 1989. The brainchild of on line casino impresario Steve Wynn, the on line casino was the most costly resort ever constructed on the time at a price ticket of $630 million.
Among the property’s sights included dolphin and tiger habitats, an indoor tropical forest, a 20,000-gallon aquarium of unique fish, and a synthetic volcano that erupted nightly alongside the Strip for guests passing by.
The on line casino was additionally dwelling to the famed Siegfried & Roy magic present for 14 years. The Mirage is donating a 17-foot-tall sculpture of the magic duo with an enormous white tiger.
The property can be donating the 30-foot-tall Mirage resort entrance arch signal and a 27-foot-long neon signal that was situated within the on line casino’s volcano lagoon.
“In July of 2023, The Neon Museum first met with Onerous Rock management to start the preservation dialog. Over the course of a yr, we labored collectively to establish essentially the most iconic and traditionally important items,” museum government director Aaron Berger mentioned. “Future generations will be capable of study ‘the oasis within the desert’ and the way it modified hospitality design in Las Vegas and the world.”
Museum officers made the announcement that the gathering could be transferring at a Las Vegas Metropolis Council assembly not too long ago. The venue will see its measurement triple by relocating to the downtown Arts District, permitting for extra indicators to be displayed. The museum at present solely shows about 30% of its objects and the larger venue is anticipated to open in 2027.
You will discover extra info at The Neon Museum websit.
*Images by The Neon Museum
