The Mob Museum: Blood, Booze, Jews & Catholics in Vegas

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ed Rothstein

The Purple Gang members trying to avoid the
camera in an exhibition at the new museum in Las Vegas.

NEVADA- The Mob Museum opens on Tuesday  in Las Vegas; themobmuseum.org, [Marking Al Capone's Valentines Day Massacre] a $42 million survey of the American gangster, unfolding in 17,000 square feet of exhibition space, on three floors of a 41,000-square-foot landmark building on Stewart Avenue. With artifacts, clever interactive displays, atmospheric exhibits and photographs and videos, we learn too of these Jewish and Italian immigrants who treated the “land of opportunity” as “the opportunity to grab what they could,” and by trafficking in blood and booze built up national empires, until they were brought down with wiretaps, informants and more blood. [link]