Scranton, Pennsylvania: Harry Houdini Museum
Supposedly the only museum in the world wholly devoted to the master magician.
- Address:
- 1433 N. Main Ave., Scranton, PA
- Directions:
- West of I-81, on the northern end on town. I-81 exit 190 onto Main Ave., then drive west for two miles.
- Hours:
- Daily July-Labor Day 12:30-6 pm. Off season: Sa 1-4:30 pm. Call for tour. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 570-342-5555
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Harry Houdini Museum Harry Houdini. His magic and escapes. The only museum in the world totally devoted to Houdini. Tours change and in the summer includes a magic show. Halloween shows in October (no tours) and a yearly Official Houdini Halloween seance on the Web.
Covers Houdini's career and facts about Houdini not found elsewhere. The Houdini Museum has national and international significance, especially since the tragic fire of the wonderful exhibit in Niagara Falls in May of 1995.
The Houdini Museum has been open for 10 years; prior to that a part of the exhibit was on display for 13 years at the famous Magic Towne House in New York City where we also did the only Official Houdini Halloween seances in NYC during that period.
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Photo added Nov. 2010. The Houdini Museum has been under the stewardship of magicians Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz since 1988.