Qualla: The Mob Museum https://qualla.com/mob-museum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Mob Museum https://qualla.com/mob-museum The Mob Museum: Introduction https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Kremerbi, CC BY-SA 3.0. Oscar Goodman spent years defending the most notorious mobsters in Las Vegas. Then he became mayor. In 2002, Goodman hatched an idea that only a former mob attorney could pull off: transform the city's abandoned 1933 federal courthouse into a museum celebrating the violent, glamorous history of organized crime. The building itself had hosted one of the fourteen Kefauver Committee hearings that exposed the Mafia's grip on American cities in 1950 and 1951. The federal government sold the property to Las Vegas for one dollar, with stipulations that it be restored to its original appearance and serve a cultural purpose. What emerged on Valentine's Day 2012 was the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, though everyone calls it the Mob Museum.

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/9qqj-the-mob-museum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Mob Museum: The Wall https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Kremerbi, CC BY-SA 3.0. The self-guided tour begins on the third floor with an artifact that silences visitors: the actual brick wall from the SMC Cartage Company warehouse at 2122 North Clark Street in Chicago. On February 14, 1929, seven men associated with Bugs Moran's North Side Gang stood against t...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/9qqj-the-mob-museum-the-wall.mp3 0:06 2 full The Mob Museum: The Courtroom https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Kremerbi, CC BY-SA 3.0. The second floor houses the restored courtroom where Senator Estes Kefauver conducted his 1950 hearings into organized crime. These proceedings, broadcast on the new medium of television, introduced Americans to the faces and names behind the Mafia. Frank Costello's hands, fidget...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/9qqj-the-mob-museum-the-courtroom.mp3 0:06 3 full The Mob Museum: Mob's Greatest Hits https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Kremerbi, CC BY-SA 3.0. The exhibits pull no punches. A section called Mob's Greatest Hits displays actual crime scene photographs of the most infamous Mafia murders, showing the corpses of men whose names became legend. The images are graphic and intentionally disturbing, a reminder that the glamour of...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/9qqj-the-mob-museum-mobs-greatest-hits.mp3 0:06 4 full The Mob Museum: The Underground https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Kremerbi, CC BY-SA 3.0. In April 2018, the museum opened The Underground in its basement, a fully operational speakeasy and distillery that brings Prohibition to life. The space explores the cultural history of the era when the Eighteenth Amendment created the economic opportunity that launched American...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/q/j/mob-museum-wp/9qqj-the-mob-museum-the-underground.mp3 0:06 5 full The Mob Museum: The City That Built It https://qualla.com/mob-museum/ Photo credit Wtstoffs, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Mob Museum occupies the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, a neoclassical building constructed in 1933 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its location on Stewart Avenue, two blocks north of Fremont Street, places it in the heart of the original ...

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