The Mob Museum | Downtown Las Vegas
Inside the 1933 federal courthouse where the Kefauver committee sat in 1950: four floors of organized-crime history and a working basement speakeasy.
The building opened as the U.S. Post Office and Courthouse on November 11, 1933, the first federal building in Las Vegas. On November 15, 1950, Senator Estes Kefauver's special Senate committee held an organized-crime hearing in its second-floor courtroom, taking testimony from Nevada Lieutenant Governor Clifford Jones and mob figure Moe Sedway. That hearing is the main reason the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The museum opened inside it on February 14, 2012.
The second-floor courtroom is the real one — the Kefauver committee sat there in November 1950. Downstairs, the Underground pours in a working speakeasy and distillery until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Mob Museum is a 501(c)3 nonprofit museum in downtown Las Vegas, housed in the 1933 federal courthouse where the Kefauver committee held a 1950 organized-crime hearing. It opened in 2012 and includes the Underground, a working speakeasy and distillery.
At a glance
- Address
- 300 Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89101, Las Vegas, NV
- Price range
- $$
- Cuisine
- Museum, Organized Crime History, Law Enforcement, Prohibition
- Phone
- (702) 229-2734
Common questions
What are the hours?
The museum is open daily 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Underground speakeasy and distillery runs Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to midnight.
Where is it?
300 Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89101, steps from Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
Is the courtroom the actual Kefauver courtroom?
Yes. Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate committee held an organized-crime hearing in that second-floor courtroom on November 15, 1950, and the room is part of the museum's second floor.
Is there a bar in the museum?
The basement holds the Underground, a working speakeasy and distillery surrounded by 1920s artifacts, with its own later hours.