Gambling Museums

by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker

December 14, 2006

Gambling Museums

A gambling museum is simply a place where one can find most well preserved and beautiful collections of gaming memorabilia, including antique slot machines, cheating devices and gamblers' weapons. The gambling museums provide a very wide exposure to all the technicalities and insights of the world of gambling. A shade of gambling even from the pre historic times can be easily found in these museums. Today one can find gambling museums in almost every part of the world but the ones situated in places like Nevada and Las Vegas are of special interest because of the seriousness of these places towards the gambling industry.

Some famous museums around the globe

With a super collection of gambling insights, the gambling museums are rapidly gaining popularity among the masses from all over the world. Here is a list of some of the worlds most renowned and reputed gambling museums:

·         Nevada Gambling Museum, Virginia City, Nevada – Situated in the heart of Virginia city this beautiful gambling museum features more then half a million dollars worth of gambling memorabilia which includes almost 100 slot machines, cheating devices and gamblers weapons.

·         Atomic Testing Museum, 755 East Flamingo Road, Las Vegas – The offerings of these gambling museum situated in the city of Las Vegas includes a permanent 8000 sq ft gallery and the ATM store. Its open for the duration of 9 am to 5 pm in all the weak days and 1 pm to 5 pm on Sundays. 

·         Boulder City / Hoover Dam Museum, 444 Hotel Plaza, Boulder City – The main attraction of these museum is the screening of the movie "The Construction of Hoover Dam,” In addition o these they also show their visitors historical memorabilia relating to the workers and construction of Hoover Dam.

·         Carroll Shelby Museum, 6755 Speedway Blvd, Las Vegas – One gets to see here about 35 years of Shelby performance cars as well the company’s 100.000 sq ft manufacturing facility for the Shelby Corbras and the new serious 1. This wonderful institution is open from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm. There is also a added facility of daily tour by prior appointment.

In this way in addition to the few mentioned above there are many other such great gambling museums around the world where one can find each and very small detail from the gambling world.

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