The Boneyard, with the man who runs it
The lead film tours the Neon Museum with its executive director, Aaron Berger (2026): where Las Vegas's retired signs go to live, how the collection is rescued and kept, and the museum's education program, which brings roughly 4,200 schoolkids a year — with Title I school buses paid for. A second, long-form conversation with Berger is the deepest source on this page: how signs are rescued, restored and financed, story by story (including a 'how to build a volcano' session with the Mirage's designers, told as history).
Night is when it performs
The walkthrough film goes at night, when the restored signs are lit and the Brilliant! projection show brings the unrestored signs back to glowing life with light and music. Brilliant! gets its own film too — no narration; the signs perform. (Displays rotate; one walk was filmed during the Tim Burton exhibition period, and some pieces on camera belonged to that show.)
What preservation actually costs
The single-sign deep dive follows the Hard Rock Cafe guitar sign's second life: YESCO's restoration and its relighting ceremony at the Boneyard. Around 300 donors backed the roughly two-year project, which cost about as much as building the sign did originally. That's the museum in one story: neon as civic memory, paid for like it matters. The museum's own short orientation film opens the set for anyone who wants the two-minute version first.
Sources: the six videos on this page — a director-led 2026 tour, a long-form director interview, a night walkthrough, the Brilliant! show film, a single-sign restoration story, and the museum's own orientation — summarized from their entries in our catalog.