{"id":319846,"date":"2024-05-14T15:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=319846"},"modified":"2024-05-15T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:45:33","slug":"evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Evel Knievel famously attempts to jump the Caesars Palace fountains in 1967. (Image: Associated Press<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The museum will be the main attraction of the brand new Mission Linen building, at 1001 South 1st St. Its groundbreaking was announced by Las Vegas developer J Dapper on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

No opening date for the Evel Knievel Museum has been set, though the Topeka location will close in October to prepare for the transition.<\/p>\n

Evel Las Vegas<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Las Vegas was the site of one of Knievel\u2019s most famous stunts. On Dec. 31, 1967, he attempted to jump his motorcycle 141 feet over the fountains of Caesars Palace. It would have been Knievel’s longest jump at the time, if it hadn’t ended in his launching over his handlebars and skidding into the Dunes parking lot next door.<\/p>\n

The crash resulted in a crushed pelvis and femur, multiple hip fractures, two broken ankles, a concussion, and a lengthy hospital stay. It also made him a legend. Evel died in 2007 at age 69 of pulmonary disease, not his many serious injuries.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t think of a better place to display the legacy of Evel Knievel than Las Vegas,\u201d said Evel\u2019s son and family brand owner, Kelly Knievel, in a statement. \u201cWith guts, charisma, and showmanship, he built himself a legacy that\u2019s still going strong 50 years after that crash at Caesars Palace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“We\u2019ve got all of my dad\u2019s memorabilia, plus the latest and greatest razzmatazz.”<\/p>\n

Well, Not All<\/em> His Dad\u2019s Memorabilia<\/h2>\n
\"\"
A rendering of the Evel Knievel Museum. (Image: Evel Knievel Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though the museum\u2019s collection features most of the other bikes that survived to tell the tale, as well as Knievel\u2019s original leathers and helmets, it does not include the Triumph Bonneville T12 that Knievel used in his Caesars stunt. That bike disappeared decades ago and is believed to be somewhere in the American northwest.<\/p>\n

\n

The Las Vegas museum will also feature a virtual reality experience, a display of Evel\u2019s nastiest X-rays, and a room dedicated to Knievel\u2019s second<\/em> most famous jump. That was over the Snake River Canyon in 1974, and it also failed. The room, called the Snake River Experience, will<\/em> feature Knievel’s actual Skycycle X-2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled for the opportunity to relocate the Evel Knievel Museum from Topeka, Kansas to Las Vegas,\u201d said Mike Patterson, who co-founded the museum with Lathan McKay, and James Caplinger<\/p>\n

In addition to the Evel Knievel Museum, the property will also house a Mothership Coffee Roasters, and a heavy metal-themed pizza concept by Las Vegas hospitality entrepreneur Branden Powers.<\/p>\n

Powers was also behind a pizzeria dedicated to Evel Knievel, Evel Pie, which he opened downtown in 2016. That restaurant, which Powers no longer owns, features memorabilia donated by Kelly and the estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum will be the main attraction of the brand new Mission Linen building, at 1001 South 1st St. Its groundbreaking was announced by Las Vegas developer J Dapper on Tuesday. No opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":319847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,82353],"tags":[90888,82083,90891,90883,90884,90885,82513,90887,90892,23,90886,90893,90889,90890],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEvel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-14T20:09:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-15T13:45:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1111\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"786\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Corey Levitan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Corey Levitan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/\",\"name\":\"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-14T20:09:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-15T13:45:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/281fd7b5480c9afb75e84ffb75039f09\"},\"description\":\"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg\",\"width\":1111,\"height\":786},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Las Vegas\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Casino.org\",\"description\":\"Latest Casino and Gaming News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/281fd7b5480c9afb75e84ffb75039f09\",\"name\":\"Corey Levitan\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-3-3-96x96.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-3-3-96x96.png\",\"caption\":\"Corey Levitan\"},\"description\":\"Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers gaming news on the US West Coast, including Las Vegas. Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city\u2019s history. (For \u201cFear and Loafing,\u201d he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.) Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post. Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook. Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corey-levitan\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org","description":"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org","og_description":"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum","og_url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/","og_site_name":"Casino.org","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews","article_published_time":"2024-05-14T20:09:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-15T13:45:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1111,"height":786,"url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Corey Levitan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Casino_Org","twitter_site":"@Casino_Org","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Corey Levitan","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/","name":"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas - Casino.org","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg","datePublished":"2024-05-14T20:09:56+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-15T13:45:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/281fd7b5480c9afb75e84ffb75039f09"},"description":"The Evel Knievel Museum, which opened in the late daredevil\u2019s hometown of Topeka, Kansas in 2017, is motorcycle-jumping to downtown Las Vegas. The museum","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ebay.jpg","width":1111,"height":786},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/evel-knievel-museum-jumping-to-las-vegas\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Las Vegas","item":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/las-vegas\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Evel Knievel Museum Jumping to Las Vegas"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/","name":"Casino.org","description":"Latest Casino and Gaming News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/281fd7b5480c9afb75e84ffb75039f09","name":"Corey Levitan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-3-3-96x96.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/cropped-3-3-96x96.png","caption":"Corey Levitan"},"description":"Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers gaming news on the US West Coast, including Las Vegas. Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city\u2019s history. (For \u201cFear and Loafing,\u201d he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.) Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post. Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook. Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.","url":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/author\/corey-levitan\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319901,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319846\/revisions\/319901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}