Mark Hall-Patton Biography and Wiki
Mark Hall-Patton is the Museum Administrator for the Clark County Museum System, where he oversees the Clark County Museum, the Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum, and the Searchlight History Museum. He was born in 1954, in Santa Ana, California, United States. Prior to that, he was Director of the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum in California. Mark has worked for both public and private non-profit museums and has consulted with numerous start-up and established museums and museum boards.
Mark is a MAP surveyor for the American Association of Museums and the author of two books as well as over 400 published articles. Mark has written and produced forty-eight local history videos. In the year 2009, he hosted a live interview roundtable program on C4 television in the Vegas valley and is regularly seen on the History Channel’s “Pawn Stars” as a visiting expert.
In addition to the Nevada Museums Association, where Mark served as President from 2000 to 2002 and 2008-2010, he served on the California Association of Museums and Western Museums Association boards. Mark is a member of the Board of the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation and the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.
Mark is married to Dr. Colleen Hall-Patton, a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at UNLV, as well as they are the parents of Joseph and Ellen Hall-Patton.
