The Mob Museum (National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement)

The Mob Museum, located in the former U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, opened in its current downtown Las Vegas location in 2012 and presents documented exhibits on organized crime and law enforcement history. Photographs of its period artifacts, courtroom exhibits, and famous gangster imagery are often shared and remixed online as memes and visual shorthand for mob-related jokes or commentary. The museum’s exhibits and historic building have made it a recurring visual reference in pop-culture posts about crime history and the Mafia. The institution’s official name is the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement.