The Mob Museum inward Las Vegas ranked near the top of the inning in a recent USA Today Top 10 pollard of the nation’s topper story museums.

The Gannett-owned subject newspaper publisher this week released its online study naming reader choices for “Best History Museum” inwards the nation. The Mob Museum, which opened inward 2012 near the downtown Las Vegas gambling casino district, ranked fourth.

The Mob Museum is situated in a 1930s restored former federal courthouse and US Emily Price Post Office. Its displays include artifacts from decades agone when mobsters controlled many Las Vegas casinos.

Some of the Mob-connected casinos from that period, including the Sands, Dunes, and Stardust, experience been demolished. Those trinity properties were on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Sands was imploded and replaced past the Venetian. The Bellagio is located where the Dunes erstwhile stood. The $4.3 1000000000000 Resorts World Las Vegas is go down to open June 24 where the Stardust was located.

Other hotel-casinos dating from the 1930s, such as the John C. Fremont and El Cortez inwards downtown Las Vegas and the Tropicana on the Strip, are allay inwards operation, but were not below Maffia control.

The Flamingo, which mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opened inward December 1946, is ease at the same location on the Strip, though none of the original buildings remain. The Flamingo is owned past Caesars Entertainment.

The Top 10

For the online survey, USA Today editors and experts selected the nominees. Readers so went online to vote. Nominees used societal media sites to encourage their followers to vote. The results are not scientific.

In the Best Museum category, the Top 10 in monastic order are the National Infantry Museum & Soldier Center inwards Columbus, Ga., the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the National Museum of the devil dog Corps in Triangle, Va., the Mob Museum inward Las Vegas, the USS Old Ironsides Museum in Boston, the Museum of History and Industry  in Seattle, the Independence Seaport Museum inward Philadelphia, the National WWII Museum inwards New Orleans, the Museum of Native American History in  Bentonville, Ark., and the Henry Ford  in Dearborn, Mich.

The USA Today editors wrote that the Mob Museum, whose prescribed figure is the National Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement, “documents the darker face of American chronicle by examining the essence unionised criminal offence has had on society.”

“Exhibits deal the Prohibition era, organised offense today, forensic research laboratory techniques, and law of nature enforcement methods,” the editors wrote.

Reminders of Las Vegas’ unionized offense past tense bear on to range upward regular today.

For instance, a slay tryout is underway inwards Los Angeles in the shot death of a former Las Vegas mobster’s daughter.

New York multimillionaire Robert Durst is accused of putting to death his friend Susan Berman. He allegedly killed her with a gunshot to the backwards of her lead inwards 2000 at her nursing home in Southern California. She is the daughter of St. David Berman, a Las Vegas casino manipulator whose underworld associates included Siegel and others active inwards Southern NV in the belatedly 1940s and beyond.

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