The Mob Museum
A restored federal courthouse uses evidence, testimony, and original rooms to separate organized crime history from Las Vegas mythology.
Artwork inspired by Oskar J. W. Hansen
The restored 1933 federal courthouse uses evidence, testimony, surveillance, courtroom history, and law-enforcement records to separate organized crime from the mythology that often glamorizes it. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre wall is powerful because the museum reconstructs provenance and violence rather than treating it as a movie prop.
Work from the third floor downward so chronology stays clear, then choose interactive add-ons deliberately: The Crime Lab, firearm simulator, and distillery are capacity-controlled and not included with every ticket. The Underground is atmospheric, but the courthouse and Kefauver hearing room are the essential Nevada evidence.
- Setting
- Las Vegas
- Collection
- A courthouse confronts organized crime
- Allow
- 1½–3 hours
Quick guide
- Anchor
- Kefauver hearing room
- Second focus
- Compare myth with documented evidence ↔ Las Vegas context
How to read The Mob Museum on site
- Begin upstairs
- Compare myth with documented evidence
- Look closer
- Kefauver hearing room
- Plan for
- Work from the third floor downward so chronology stays clear, then choose interactive add-ons deliberately: the Crime Lab, firearm simulator, and distillery are capacity-controlled and not included with every ticket
- Leave with
- One clear connection between kefauver hearing room and Nevada
Good to know
The Underground is atmospheric, but the courthouse and Kefauver hearing room are the essential Nevada evidence.
Notice these
- Kefauver hearing room
- Compare myth with documented evidence
- Las Vegas context