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March 28, 2024

Museums

  • Amari Hall blows bubbles at Lied Discovery Children's Museum Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
    Children's Museum to close Sunday; new location opens in March
    After serving more than 2 million visitors over 22 years, the Lied Children’s Discovery Museum on Las Vegas Boulevard North closes Sunday. ...
  • Fun with science and history
    Museums and tourists typically go hand in hand, but here in Las Vegas, the Natural History Museum is busier with locals than out-of-town visitors.
  • A worker's bucket sits beside an open door at the former ShoeZeum in Neonopolis. The museum, which housed about 2,500 pair of Nike shoes, opened in August and closed in October. This week, workers were continuing efforts to remodel the space into a brewpub.
    Joe Downtown: ShoeZeum's short stint at Neonopolis was plan all along, building owner says
    The ShoeZeum's run in Las Vegas' Neonopolis was more of a sprint than a marathon. But Neonopolis’ owner says the departure of the shoe museum after only three months was according to plan.
  • Pop quiz: How well do you know the classic neon signs of Vegas?
    It’s time for a Las Vegas history test, presented one letter at a time. We picture letters from seven signs on display at the Neon Museum, 770 Las Vegas Blvd. North. The museum is home to more than 150 signs from Las Vegas casinos and other businesses, including hotels, restaurants and wedding chapels. Scroll through these photos to see if you can tell which casinos or hotels these letters came from.
  • Roxie Jekosz reacts after firing a machine gun at the Guns and Ammo Garage Oct. 25, 2012.
    Firing range teams with Mob Museum for new experience
    Mark Cole greets visitors to his Guns and Ammo Garage, a shooting range where they can travel back to a world of Prohibition-era weapons by firing the classics in a full mob-related experience.
  • Former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman holds a bottle of Old Tom Gin during at an event at the Mob Museum Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 to publicize a party being held later that evening to mark the end of prohibition. The bottle was found inside the walls when the old federal courthouse was converted into the Mob Museum.
    Las Vegas celebrates 79th anniversary of 'Repeal Day'
    When the country outlawed alcohol in 1920, millions of Americans turned to a clandestine network of speakeasies and bootleggers in search of a stiff drink.
  • G. Robert Blakey speaks about the President John F. Kennedy assassination in a video being played at the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.
    On anniversary of JFK assassination, investigator looks back
    Forty-nine years ago today, on Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. The assassination and subsequent slaying of shooter Lee Harvey Oswald shocked the country.
  • The work of Andy Warhol, such as "Double Elvis" will be on view in "Warhol Out West" at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art from Feb. 8, 2013 to Oct. 27, 2013.
    Viva Andy: 'Warhol Out West' exhibition to open at Bellagio
    Mover over, Monet: The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art is getting a pop art makeover. The Bellagio announced plans this week to bring ...
  • G. Robert Blakey speaks in the courtroom at the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012.
    Mob Museum marks anniversary of hearings that introduced much of the U.S. to organized crime
    On Nov. 15, 1950 — 62 years ago to the day — the Kefauver committee stopped in Las Vegas for one of its several hearings exploring organized crime in America.
  • U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, right, speaks at the dedication ceremony of the National Atomic Testing Museum on Friday, Oct. 26. Watching on are Kevin Fitzgerald of the Cold War Patriots, left, and Bishop Sylvester Hooks.
    Nevada's nuclear workers praised at dedication of National Atomic Testing Museum
    For decades, Nevada served as the epicenter for the nation’s nuclear arms testing program, hosting more than 1,000 nuclear detonations since 1951 at the test site north of Las Vegas. The state also serves as the central repository for all the information and artifacts related to the country’s nuclear testing program after the Atomic Testing Museum on the UNLV campus was designated a national museum at the end of 2011. On Friday, the museum celebrated its new status with a dedication ceremony featuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other federal officials.
  • Neon Museum opens its doors with powerful stories and spellbinding artifacts
    Neon Museum opens its doors with powerful stories and spellbinding artifacts
    It’s a lovely Saturday morning in Downtown Las Vegas, and we’re in the Neon Museum’s Boneyard, standing before the Moulin Rouge sign’s beautifully scripted font as our tour guide discusses the racial segregation of Las Vegas’ past. We’ve already learned about the 1905 land auction that gave birth to Downtown Las Vegas, and that a mere 90 years later, the fantastic lighted and neon signs that came to define the city were being collected by a local arts organization as the only souvenirs of a quickly vanishing past.
  • Laura Henkel, former assistant curator of the Erotic Heritage Museum.
    Former erotic museum consultant sues founder, citing affair gone bad
    The former assistant curator of the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas has filed a suit against the museum's founder, who she says fired her then defamed and banned her from the museum after she ended an alleged three-year affair with him and then refused his advances.
  • The Mob Museum is shown before the grand opening in downtown Las Vegas, Tuesday February 14, 2012. The building, a former federal courthouse and post office, was completed in 1933 and is listed on the Nevada and National Registers of Historic Places. It is also one of 14 sites in the nation that hosted the 1950-51 U.S. Senate Special Committees to investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, also known as the Kefauver hearings.
    Las Vegas Mob Museum sees its 100,000th visitor
    The Las Vegas Mob Museum recently recorded its 100,000th visitor and is on track to reach 200,000 by the end of the year, Executive Director Jonathan Ullman said.
  • A view of a pedestrian bridge over las Vegas Boulevard North is shown in the Cultural Corridor, in downtown Las Vegas Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012.
    Cultural Corridor 2.0: no longer the forgotten hub
    What had been envisioned—promised, even—by city leaders two decades ago fell by the wayside.
  • Candice Rodriguez and Sergio Tamez listen to virtual guide James Caan during a preview of the Las Vegas Mob Experience at the Tropicana on Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
    Attorneys use ruling from 1601 in fight about mob artifacts
    Attorneys for the opposition to Las Vegas Mob Experience developer Jay Bloom are using an English court ruling from centuries ago to try to disprove what they call nonsensical and fraudulent legal claims he has made in a case about mob artifacts.
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