The Test Site Exhibit
The Test Site Exhibit A New Location in the Land Use Museum Complex
The Center's Land Use Museum Complex gained another
addition last month with the installtion of the first exhibit
inside an abandoned trailer on the edge of the Nevada Test Site.
The exhibit, called Concentric Restrictions: Land Use Signage
of the Nevada Test Site, is a group of photographs, from the CLUI
Collection, of signage in the 1,350 square-mile nuclear testing
ground, which is located near the trailor.
Sign directing visitors travelling to
the Exhibit Hall
CLUI photo
Exterior view of the new Nevada Test
Site Perimeter Exhibit Hall.
CLUI photo
The Exhibit Hall is open to the public 24 hours
a day and is devoted to the exhibition of work related to the
adjacent (and still active) federal test site. A second exhibit
will replace the current one in a years time. A map with directions
to the Hall (similar to the one at left) is available from The
Center, and will soon be posted at The Center's internet site.
The Photographs in the exhibit are displayed throughout
the trailer, on surfaces protected from the elements.
CLUI photo
The trailer is located off
a seldom-travelled dirt road that travels through public
land to the defunct Rock Valley Test Area of the Test Site.
A fork to the right, a few miles from the perimeter, leads
to the metal-sided trailer, which, up till now, has been
unused since being heavily vandalized in the 1980's. The
road, though rough, is passable by normal, non high-clearance
vehicles.
