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March 28, 2024

Museums

  • The Mob Museum, Friday Feb. 10, 2017.
    Mob Museum gains accreditation from national group
    The Mob Museum in Las Vegas has turned a 1-in-35 chance into a sure thing, by gaining accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. Museum executive Jonathan Ullman on Thursday credited ...
  • Various artifacts have been added to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre exhibit at the Mob Museum, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The artifacts are associated with the notorious 1929 gang slayings in Chicago.
    Mob Museum celebrates five years with chilling new artifacts and free admission for locals
    The Mob Museum started its fifth anniversary celebration with an appropriate bang, unveiling new artifacts from the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, including bullets removed from the bodies of the victims and the original coroner’s documents. They connect to one of ...
  • Group suing to stop Lucas museum outlines settlement options
    group suing to block construction of "Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas' museum on Chicago's lakefront is willing to negotiate a settlement to allow the project to proceed, but only under several conditions ...
  • Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman drinks a toast with Billy Tveitnes at the celebration of the one millionth guest at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015.
    Mob Museum greets millionth visitor with confetti, champagne
    The Mob Museum in Las Vegas has welcomed its millionth visitor. The museum celebrated the milestone Tuesday by greeting visitor Billy Tveitnes with confetti and champagne as he ...
  • Audit: State museum gift shops need to up their game
    A legislative audit released last month found several problems with how gift shops at state-run museums are keeping records on the souvenirs they stock.
  • Frank Cullotta, former leader of the “Hole in the Wall” gang and a friend of Tony Spilotro’s, stands in the Mob Museum.
    Old mobster is at peace with his past
    Frank Cullotta was a famous hit man for the Chicago Outfit, a self-described former “gangster, burglar, murderer, extortionist, arsonist” who admitted to the 1979 killing of con man Sherwin “Jerry” Lisner in Las Vegas. Today, the 76-year-old Cullotta earns a legal living as an expert in the culture that led him underground ...
  • Wayne Newton at his home Casa de Shenandoah on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015, in Las Vegas.
    Casa de Shenandoah shines amid stars; Piff parlays ‘AGT’ run into headlining gig
    The Wayne Newton museum is now open, and the VIP party Thursday drew an impressive and wide-ranging collection of Las Vegas name-checks. Carrot Top; Lance Burton; Clint Holmes and Kelly Clinton-Holmes; Sabrina Bryan; Melody Sweets of “Absinthe”; Mark Shunock, Troy Burgess and Robert Torti of “Rock of Ages”; Jennifer Cox; Chippendales guest host Tyson Beckford; and ...
  • Beth Wilson of Houston and Mark Perino of Modesto, Calif. look over a display at "The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly," a new exhibit on the FIFA scandal at the The Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015.
    FIFA scandal becomes exhibit at Mob Museum in Las Vegas
    Al Capone, with raised eyebrows, appeared to be taking a curious sideways glance at the two-minute video of soccer playing and talk about corruption and crooks. The same Las Vegas museum that has chronicled Sin City's mob beginnings led by ...
  • Elaine Wynn speaks during a Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce Business Power Luncheon at the Rio Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
    Elaine Wynn eyes the bigger picture
    Known for being more even-keeled than her headline-grabbing former husband, Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino mogul and blue-chip art collector, Elaine Wynn is now ...
  • A view of the Mob Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, Feb.13, 2013.
    Mob Museum in Las Vegas to open soccer scandal exhibit
    The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is setting up an exhibit dedicated to the FIFA corruption scandal. The permanent display entitled "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly" will open at ...
  • Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, left, tells a story about Jay Sarno during a discussion at UNLV Sunday, March 2, 2014. Mel Larson, right, former Circus Circus vice president, listens at right.  Sarno is the founder of Caesars Palace and Circus Circus, and is credited for creating the mold for modern Las Vegas.
    Mob stories never get old for Goodman — or audiences
    Up next for Goodman on his mini-tour of Vegas speaking engagements is a discussion about Chagra’s fanciful life as a high-stakes gambler and his highly theatrical legal battles. “Oscar’s Case of the Century: The Life and Crimes of Jimmy Chagra,” which also might be the case of this century, is set for May 28 at the Mob Museum ...
  • Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman talks about the barber chair on which Albert Anastasia was sitting when he was murdered. The chair can be seen at the Mob Museum, which is partnering with “CSI: The Experience” at MGM Grand to offer one $45 ticket purchase that provides access to both crime- and crimefighting-themed attractions.
    Handcuff can boost Mob Museum, CSI attraction
    Five years ago, there was a question of whether the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas would agree to enter into a cross-promotional partnership with the in-development Mob Experience being planned at the Tropicana. The concept was that a single ticket might be offered to both attractions, given they were exhibiting such similar subject matter ...
  • This Wednesday, March 25, 2015, photo shows the defaced serial number on a Smith & Wesson .38 Special in Mountainside, N.J. Stored for the past 50 years in attics, closets and a bank safe-deposit box in New Jersey, the gun belonging to former IRS criminal investigations agent Michael Malone — and possibly used by members of Al Capone's gang — is headed to Las Vegas, where it will be part of an the exhibit at The Mob Museum beginning in mid-April.
    Gun owned by agent who toppled Al Capone headed to Las Vegas museum
    The gun is a triumph of American craftsmanship from the early 20th century, its sleek barrel familiar to anyone raised on the movies of Bogart and Cagney, "Scarface" and "Little Caesar." Except this Smith & Wesson .38 special has real-life stories to tell, stories of ...
  • The body of Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel is placed in a hearse outside his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., hours after he was shot June 20, 1947, by an unidentified gunman.
    Fascination with old Vegas mob tales endures
    Notes compiled, and now imparted, from across the urban landscape we call VegasVille ...
  • History concealed? The greatness of the Nevada State Museum deserves a little more love.
    The Nevada State Museum fights for visibility at Springs Preserve
    The institution is located in the opposite direction of many popular Springs Preserve attractions.
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