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Las Vegas DownTown, Las Vegas — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Downtown Las Vegas is the older part of the city, a few miles north of the Strip, with the Mob Museum and the Neon Museum on its blocks.
About Las Vegas DownTown
Where to stay in Las Vegas DownTown
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The Mob Museum end of town reads differently from the Strip. Rooms in the older blocks put the Neon Museum, the Burlesque Hall of Fame and the Las Vegas Natural History Museum within a walk of one another, which is the argument for sleeping here rather than on the resort corridor to the south. Distances are short.
Anyone weighing a night beside the Lied Discovery Children's Museum against one further down Las Vegas should count the few miles between them.
About Las Vegas DownTown
What are the main landmarks in Las Vegas DownTown?
Museums dominate the roll. The Mob Museum and the Neon Museum draw the most attention, though the list runs on through the Burlesque Hall of Fame, the Evel Knievel Museum, the Las Vegas Natural History Museum and the Lied Discovery Children's Museum. One house stands among them.
The Jay Dayton Smith House carries a person's name beside The King's Ransom Museum, the Las Vegas Museum of Art and Zak Bagans' The Haunted Museum.
What is the history of Las Vegas DownTown?
Downtown is the older Las Vegas. The Strip rose a few miles south of it, which leaves this quarter holding the longer record of the city along with a house on the landmark roll that still carries a person's name, the Jay Dayton Smith House. Its museums do the remembering.
The Neon Museum, the Mob Museum and the Burlesque Hall of Fame each take a subject from the city's own past, while the Evel Knievel Museum names a rider and The King's Ransom Museum keeps a collection under a title of its own.
Where is Las Vegas DownTown?
The Strip lies south. Downtown Las Vegas keeps the older ground a few miles up from it, and the Mob Museum stands among its blocks.
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Updated September 2026