After a parade down C Street, the Silver State Peace Officers Museum will open Saturday inside the historic Storey County Jail in Virginia City.
Since April, volunteers have been refurbishing the jail, built in 1876, to its original state.
"We started on April 29 and I can't believe we are actually going to open the door on Saturday," said Frank Adams, a founding member of the museum and historian for the Nevada Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
Adams said the museum came to fruition when founding member Doug Gist learned from former Storey County Sheriff and current Storey County Manager Pat Whitten that the county wanted to do something with the old jail housed in the courthouse basement on B street.
"We had the stuff to put in it and they had the location," said Adams.
The museum will house thousands of items of law enforcement memorabilia on loan from private collections. Adams and Gist - both retired law enforcement officers - have contributed pieces.
The museum includes a hall of badges and memorabilia, an interactive children's room, gift area, and Nevada Officers Memorial Room, dedicated to Nevada officers who died in the line of duty. The room has a computer kiosk with photos, names, biographies and the stories surrounding the officers' deaths.
The museum will feature special exhibits on law enforcement in Virginia City dating to the 1860s and on policing in the United States with items from the 1780s.
Volunteers from as far away as Seattle took part in creating the museum and completed the project two weeks early.