BOULDER DAM MUSEUM

Free, small museum inside the historic Boulder Dam Hotel. Very educational and informative about the construction of the Hoover Dam.

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State: NV

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Why was the Hoover Dam a more challenging engineering project than other dams at the time?

What were some of the risks to the workers who built the Hoover Dam?

Why was the Hoover Dam built?

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Fun Facts

  • A pebble falling from the height of the dam can crack a workers head so they began to make their own hard hats using two baseball caps dipped in tar and allowed to harden.

  • The biggest flood the Hoover Dam has seen was 7 feet below the top of the dam in the year 1983.