Tom Devlin's Monster Museum

 Tom Devlin dropped out of high school in 2001 and moved to California to learn how to do special effects makeup. After a short course he was given an internship and was soon doing makeup on the TV shows X Files and CSI Miami. During his career in Hollywood he worked on more than 160 feature films making creatures and doing special effects makeup.

Burnt out on Hollywood, he moved to Boulder City, Nevada and opened the Monster Museum in 2017. Almost all of the monsters have been created by Devlin using the originals as a guide. Many of them are from classic horror films like Frankenstein and the Mummy but there are more recent ones like Freddy Krueger and Pennywise, the clown. Although visitors are not allowed to touch the monsters, it's possible to get close enough for photos. I would have liked to see more on how the monsters were created and the makeup processes used in movies. There's a theater where several documentaries are shown. We watched one on the makeup and costumes for the Planet of the Apes movies and plus part of a documentary about makeup artist, Tom Savini. 

 

The building has a ramp but the area of the parking lot that must be traversed to get to it is in poor condition. The first section of the museum is very dark and the hall is narrow. I think most wheelchair will fit with care, We could not read the signs in this section. The rest of the museum is better lit and roomier. In the theater, the best place for wheelchair users is behind the last row of seats. 

The parking lot is too small for large RVs. It may be possible to park at McDonalds or the shopping centers northeast of the museum. Museum  35.97156, -114.85067