The Mob Museum

New York Times review: In Mob Museum, Las Vegas embraces its bad guys of old: Feb. 21, 2012; New York Times News Service; And now, here in a city where such figures were once as comfortably in their element as Zeus and his family on Olympus, they are finally getting ...

Deconstructing the good old days on display at the Mob Museum: Feb. 15, 2012; By J. Patrick Coolican; Sun columnist J. Patrick Coolican examines the "things were better when the Mob ran this town" argument.

Vegas opens museum to examine its mobbed-up past: Feb. 15, 2012; By Gregan Wingert; Visitors doing time inside the newly opened Mob Museum were in no rush to escape and a few even relaxed — in an electric chair. “I had fun with the machine gun,” said Valerie Landau of Las Vegas.

Mob, neon, nukes: Las Vegas museums capture unique history: Jan. 16, 2012; By Richard N. Velotta; While the Neon Museum, the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement and the National Atomic Testing Museum will never be mistaken for the Louvre, all three will be home to significant happenings in 2012.

Mob Museum to offer discounted tickets for Nevada residents: Nov. 3, 2011; By Aida Ahmed; The downtown Mob Museum announced today it will offer discounted rates to Nevada residents when it open its doors Feb. 14.

Las Vegas secures $5.5 million for Mob Museum construction: Sept. 7, 2011; By Dave Toplikar; About $10.6 million in historic tax credit equity — including $5.5 for construction costs — is expected to be brought in over the next five years to help pay for the $42 million Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas.

Tourism officials updated on progress of Mob Museum: Oct. 13, 2010; By Richard N. Velotta; What a difference 20 years makes. In October 1990, Dennis Barrie was battling an indictment for pandering obscenity as director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati over his display of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe’s “The Perfect Moment.”

Mob museum gets about $15,000 more from state: Oct. 6, 2010; By Dave Toplikar; The Las Vegas City Council accepted another grant today that will go toward creating the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas.

State pulls historic preservation grants to projects, including Mob Museum: Sept. 21, 2010; By Cy Ryan; CARSON CITY – The so-called Mob Museum won't be getting a grant it was counting on because of the state’s budget crisis.

City approves $7.1 million for mob museum exhibits: July 7, 2010; By Dave Toplikar; The Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday approved $7.1 million for the exhibits that will go into the downtown mob museum, which is expected to be open in less than a year.

Union: City spending too much on mob museum: May 25, 2010; By Dave Toplikar; The largest city employees union in Las Vegas complained today that the city was putting $11.5 million into the economic "magic beans" of the Mob Museum, when it could be using the money to save employees from losing their jobs in June.

Downtown museum to tell story of mob in Las Vegas, elsewhere: March 25, 2010; By Dave Toplikar; When the Mob Museum opens next year in downtown Las Vegas, visitors will see much more than what occurred in Las Vegas from the 1940s through the 1980s, according to the future downtown museum's creative director. "I think you're all going to be very surprised about the content of this museum," says Dennis Barrie, best known as the co-creator of the Rock and Roll Museum in Cleveland and the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Mob Museum gets $220,000 grant from state commission: March 11, 2010; By Cy Ryan; CARSON CITY – The conversion of the Post Office in Las Vegas to the so-called Mob Museum has received a $220,000 grant from the state Commission for Cultural Affairs.

Chatting with Dennis Barrie: Jan. 6, 2010; By Kristen Peterson; The planned mob museum has yet to receive a warm embrace from the community. Whether it's feared gimmicky content or the outrageous use of public funds to the very idea of highlighting a violent past, there's been a lot of complaining. So we decided to talk it out with Dennis Barrie, the museum's creative director. Because if anyone knows about this type of situation, it's this guy.

Chatting with Dennis Barrie, creative director of the Mob Museum: Jan. 6, 2010; By Kristen Peterson; Whether it’s feared gimmicky content or the outrageous use of public funds to the very idea of highlighting a violent past, there’s been a lot of complaining about the planned mob museum.