{"id":222066,"date":"2022-07-19T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=222066"},"modified":"2022-07-19T17:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:42:56","slug":"vegas-mob-museum-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-mob-museum-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Mob Museum to Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mob Museum has apparently made someone an offer they couldn\u2019t refuse. The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement has purchased a 30,000-foot parcel, just east of its historic building in downtown Vegas, in which it plans to expand. Neither the sale price nor the previous owner were disclosed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_222067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222067\" data-style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-222067 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mob-museum.jpg\" alt=\"The Mob Museum\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mob-museum.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mob-museum-858x601.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/mob-museum-430x301.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-222067\"class=\"text-description\">The Mob Museum is expanding into 30,000 square feet of downtown Las Vegas space to its immediate east. (Image: The Mob Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Museum has enjoyed enormous success throughout our 10 years of operation, averaging well over 1,000 visitors a day, and we have remained focused on delivering an incredible guest experience, meaningful exhibits, and public programs consistent with our mission,\u201d Mob Museum President and CEO Jonathan Ullman said in a statement. \u201cAn expansion would enable us to reach a much broader audience by increasing our offerings, community engagement opportunities, and contribution to the growth of the public\u2019s understanding of organized crime and law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The museum\u2019s historic main structure, originally built in 1933 as the Las Vegas Post Office and a federal courthouse where many mobsters stood trial, will remain intact.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Rolling out the barrel?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps one of the new space&#8217;s exhibitions will be the infamous barrel discovered in May at the bottom of Lake Mead with a body in it. Just last week,<em> Casino.org<\/em> reported that the Mob Museum is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/vegas-mob-museum-may-roll-out-bodyless-lake-mead-barrel\/\">attempting to acquire the barrel<\/a> (empty, of course) from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department if they determine that it contained the victim of a mafia hit.<\/p>\n<p>A boater spotted the corroded barrel \u2060\u2014 made visible because of the lake\u2019s receding waters \u2060\u2014 in a muddy spot once located 100 feet under Lake Mead\u2019s Hemenway Harbor.\u00a0Even two months later, the museum still receives dozens of requests a week from news outlets and documentary crews seeking interviews about the grim discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mob Museum has apparently made someone an offer they couldn\u2019t refuse. The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement has purchased a 30,000-foot parcel, just east of its historic building in downtown Vegas, in which it plans to expand. Neither the sale price nor the previous owner were disclosed. \u201cThe Museum has enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":222067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3313,81886],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vegas Mob Museum to Expand - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mob Museum has apparently made someone an offer they couldn\u2019t refuse. 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