Neon Museum Tickets and Tours: Prices, Times, and How to Book

Understanding the two ticket types before you book

The Neon Museum is one of the few Downtown attractions where the ticket you buy genuinely changes the experience, not just the price. This page is about the mechanics of booking — what each ticket costs, what it includes, and what it does not — rather than the museum’s history, which is covered on the general Neon Museum guide. If you want the story behind the Boneyard’s salvaged signs, start there; if you’re trying to work out which ticket to buy and when to show up, this is the page.

There are two distinct admission products, priced differently, and a third add-on experience that is separate from both.

Day admission

Day admission is self-guided access to the outdoor Neon Boneyard in daylight hours. As of 2026, published rates run roughly:

Ticket type	Price (approx.)
Adult	$25
Senior / student / Nevada resident	$20
Child (7-17)	$12.50

This is the cheaper of the two tickets, and it’s the one most first-time daytime visitors to Downtown Las Vegas end up buying, often paired with a stop at the Fremont Street Experience or a wider Downtown/Fremont walking tour.

Evening admission

Evening admission is a different, pricier product. It includes a guided walking tour timed around sunset and after dark, when the museum’s signature lighting design brings the restored signs to life in a way daylight simply doesn’t. Rates run roughly:

Ticket type	Price (approx.)
Adult	$35
Reduced (senior/student/resident)	$30
Child (7-17)	$17.50

The gap between day and evening pricing — roughly $10 per adult ticket — reflects the guide and the after-dark lighting, not a markup for the same experience. Treat these as two separate purchases: a day ticket does not get you into an evening slot, and there is no on-site “top-up” that converts one to the other. If the after-dark look of the Boneyard is the reason you’re visiting, book the evening ticket specifically — don’t assume a cheaper day ticket covers it.

The Photo Walk: a third, separate product

Photographers should know about a third option that sits outside both of the above: the Photo Walk. This is a dedicated one-hour session, priced at roughly $50 per person, that gives a small group exclusive access to shoot in the Boneyard with fewer general visitors around. It is booked and paid for separately from day or evening admission — it is not a photography permit added onto a standard ticket, and a standard day or evening ticket does not include tripod-friendly, uncrowded access. If dedicated photography time matters to your visit, budget for the Photo Walk on top of, not instead of, your admission ticket.

Comparing the three options at a glance

Option	Approx. price (adult)	What it includes	Best for
Day admission	~$25	Self-guided daylight access to the Boneyard	First visit, flexible timing, budget-conscious
Evening admission	~$35	Guided walk timed to sunset/after dark, lighting experience	The classic “lit-up signs” photo and atmosphere
Photo Walk	~$50	One-hour exclusive-access photography session	Serious photographers wanting space and time

None of these three overlaps with the others. A day ticket does not include the evening guided walk; an evening ticket does not include exclusive Photo Walk access; and the Photo Walk does not substitute for general admission — check current terms when booking, since photography sessions are typically an add-on that assumes you also hold an admission ticket.

Ages and who pays what

The museum’s published child rate applies to ages 7-17 at both day and evening tiers. Younger children are typically admitted free up to the museum’s own stated cutoff age — but that free-admission age is fixed by the museum, and it does not stretch to cover older children just because a family assumes it should. If you’re booking for a child near the boundary age, verify the current cutoff directly with the museum before assuming a free ticket applies; a rate that’s correct for a 6-year-old is not automatically correct for an 8-year-old.

Reduced pricing for seniors, students, and Nevada residents applies at both day and evening tiers, generally with ID or proof of status requested at entry — bring identification rather than assuming a reduced rate will be honored on request alone.

Getting to the Neon Museum

The Neon Museum sits on Las Vegas Boulevard North, north of Fremont Street, and there is no direct walking route from the Strip — it’s roughly the same order of distance as the drive from the Strip to Downtown/Fremont itself, plus a further stretch north. Even from central Fremont Street, it’s not a comfortable walk, particularly given summer heat and the lack of continuous pedestrian-friendly sidewalks along the route.

Practical ways to arrive:

• Rideshare or taxi from the Strip or Fremont Street — the most common approach, and quick given the museum’s proximity to Downtown.
• Combined with a Downtown visit — many visitors pair a Neon Museum evening ticket with dinner or a stop at the Fremont Street Experience beforehand, since both sit in the same general area.
• Organized tours that bundle the Neon Museum with other Downtown or citywide stops, such as an open-top bus experience — see the tour options below.

There is limited on-site parking, and it can fill during popular evening slots, so rideshare is generally the more reliable option, especially after dark when the guided evening tour is the whole point of the visit.

Booking timing: why advance booking matters here

Both day and evening admission are sold as timed entries with capped capacity per slot — this isn’t a walk-up museum where you buy a ticket at the door and wander in immediately. Evening slots, especially on weekends and during Las Vegas’s busier tourist months, sell out several days ahead. If your visit is anchored to a specific evening — say, the night before you leave for a Grand Canyon day trip — book that slot as soon as your dates are fixed rather than leaving it to the day itself.

Day tickets tend to have more slack in availability than evening tickets, since evening capacity is limited by the size of each guided group. If your schedule is flexible, a day visit is the easier ticket to slot in at short notice; an evening visit needs more lead time.

Combining a Neon Museum visit with a Downtown evening

Because evening admission already includes a guided walk timed to dusk, it pairs naturally with an evening in Downtown Las Vegas more broadly. A common sequence for visitors staying on the Strip or in a Downtown hotel:

1. Arrive Downtown in the late afternoon and explore Fremont Street or the Arts District before sunset.
2. Take a rideshare north to the Neon Museum in time for your booked evening slot.
3. Return to Fremont Street afterward for dinner or the Fremont Street Experience light canopy show, which runs later into the night.

Travelers interested in the museum’s broader context — the mob-era casino signage, the history of Downtown’s neon boom, and how the salvaged signs ended up in the Boneyard — should read the Mob-Era Downtown Las Vegas guide alongside the general Neon Museum guide, since ticketing logistics and museum history are covered separately by design.

An organized alternative: the Neon Museum Night Experience bus tour

For visitors who’d rather not manage rideshare logistics or timed-entry booking themselves, a guided option bundles Neon Museum access into a wider Downtown evening. The Neon Museum Night Experience Open Top Bus Tour combines an evening visit to the Boneyard with an open-top bus ride through Downtown and the Strip, handling transportation and timing so you don’t need to book a separate rideshare or worry about arriving for a specific slot on your own.

This kind of bundled ticket suits a specific traveler: someone who wants the after-dark Neon Museum experience but doesn’t want to think about parking, rideshare surge pricing, or exactly when to leave the Strip to make a timed slot. It won’t necessarily save money over booking evening admission directly, but it removes the logistics layer entirely — the bus picks you up, gets you there for your entry window, and folds the museum into a longer look at Downtown after dark. If your priority is minimizing planning rather than minimizing cost, this is the more convenient of the two paths to the same Boneyard-at-night experience described above.

Travelers who’d rather see the Neon Museum from above before or after walking through it on the ground have another combined option: the Night Helicopter Flight with Neon Museum Ticket pairs a night flight over the illuminated Strip with admission to the Boneyard, so the same evening covers both an aerial view of Las Vegas at night and the ground-level, sign-by-sign version of that same neon history. It’s a different budget tier than a standalone admission ticket, but it answers a question some visitors have — whether to spend a Downtown evening on the ground or in the air — by not making them choose.

Extending a Fremont Street evening around your Neon Museum visit

Because the Neon Museum sits close enough to Fremont Street to combine into one outing without doubling back to the Strip, it’s worth thinking about what comes before or after your timed entry slot rather than treating the museum as a stand-alone stop. A few ways visitors round out that stretch of the evening:

• A Fremont Street history walk beforehand. The Fremont Street Secrets Red Light History Walk covers ground the Neon Museum’s ticketing page doesn’t — the red-light-district-era stories behind Downtown’s old signage — and works well scheduled in the late afternoon, ahead of an evening Neon Museum slot.
• A private, guided version of Fremont Street itself. For visitors who’d rather not navigate the Fremont Street Experience canopy and casino corridor on their own, the Downtown Las Vegas: Fremont Street Experience Private Tour gives a guided pass through the same area you’d pass on foot between the museum and your hotel.
• A bar crawl afterward. If your evening slot ends before Fremont Street itself winds down, the Fremont Street: Old Vegas Bar Crawl is a straightforward way to keep the night going without needing to plan a separate itinerary.
• Family-friendly options if you’re not doing a bar crawl. Visitors bringing kids on the Downtown leg of the trip — before or after an adult splits off for the museum’s evening slot — have arcade-style alternatives on Fremont Street itself, including the Family Fun Arcade Adventure on Fremont Street and the Fremont Street Arcade Play Card Attraction Pass, both of which sit within easy reach of the museum’s approach route along Las Vegas Boulevard North.
• Covering the distance without a rideshare. For the stretch between Fremont Street and the museum itself, the Fremont Street and Downtown on a Talking Escooter is a way to cover that ground under your own power rather than waiting on a car, though it’s worth checking current terms on distance and drop-off points before relying on it as your only way back.

None of these are required to visit the Neon Museum — a straight rideshare there and back covers the basics — but they’re worth knowing about if you’re building a full Downtown evening around your ticketed slot rather than treating the museum as an isolated errand.

Planning around the rest of your trip

The Neon Museum works as a self-contained evening, but it also slots naturally into a longer first-time Las Vegas itinerary. If you’re still working out how your days should be structured overall, the first-time Las Vegas guide and the Strip vs. Downtown comparison are useful before you lock in which evening you’ll dedicate to the Boneyard. Families weighing whether a Neon Museum evening fits around younger kids should check the Las Vegas with kids guide, since a timed evening slot with a guided walk is a different pace than a daytime, self-guided visit.

Visitors touring Downtown in the height of summer should also read the Las Vegas summer heat guide before scheduling a day admission ticket — the Boneyard is an outdoor, largely unshaded site, and a daytime visit in peak summer heat is a meaningfully different experience than the same visit on an evening ticket after the sun has gone down. That’s a separate consideration from the day/evening pricing gap discussed above, but it often ends up being the deciding factor for visitors choosing between the two ticket types during summer months.

Other Downtown-area museum and attraction tickets

If you’re building out a Downtown museum itinerary, the Neon Museum pairs well with other nearby ticketed attractions rather than needing a full day on its own. The Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Las Vegas ticket covers a different kind of indoor attraction on the Strip side, useful for balancing an outdoor evening at the Boneyard with an air-conditioned stop earlier in the day.

For visitors curious about newer immersive spaces, the Infinity Museum Entry Ticket and the Las Vegas the Punk Rock Museum Entry Ticket both offer standalone, single-venue tickets similar in structure to Neon Museum admission — one fixed entry fee, one self-guided or lightly guided visit.

What to check before you book

• Confirm which ticket tier you’re buying — day or evening — since the price difference (roughly $10 per adult) reflects a genuinely different experience, not a discount tier of the same visit.
• Decide on the Photo Walk separately. If dedicated photography time matters, book it as an addition to your admission, not as a substitute — and budget the extra ~$50 per person on top.
• Verify the current child free-admission age directly with the museum rather than assuming last year’s cutoff still applies; museums adjust these brackets periodically.
• Book evening slots early, especially for weekend visits or peak season, since guided group size caps capacity more tightly than day admission.
• Plan transportation in advance. There’s no direct walking route from the Strip, and only a marginal one from Fremont Street — factor a rideshare or taxi into your evening timing, particularly if your slot starts right at sunset.

For a broader look at where the Neon Museum fits into Downtown’s mob-era and neon-sign history, see the Neon Museum guide and the Mob Museum guide, both a short ride from Fremont Street.