List of magic museums

There are more than two dozen notable museums concerning magic, magicians and magical apparatus, and all but one are publicly accessible.

Bricks and mortar museums

• American Museum of Magic, Marshall, Michigan is the largest magic museum in the United States open to the public.
• Blois's La Maison de la Magie Robert-Houdin (the house of Magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin) fronting on the Royal Château de Blois, 1, Place du Château Blois 41000 “The museum displays automatons from the XIX century." As a museum of France and bearing the official label of "Musée de France", it is the only public museum in Europe which incorporates in one place collections of magic and a site for permanent performing arts.
• College of Magic has its Magical Arts Centre in South Africa.
• Musée de la Magie in Paris, France is underneath the 16th century house of the Marquis de Sade with exhibits in the cellars.
• The History Museum at the Castle is a local history museum located at 330 East College Avenue in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin 54911. Owned and operated by the Outagamie County Historical Society (OCHS), the museum has previously operated under the names The Outagamie Museum and The Houdini Historic Center.
• Houdini Museum, started out at the Venetian, now at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
• The Houdini Museum, 1433 North Main Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18508. It features memorabilia, artifacts, mannequins and films of the master magician. The Houdini Tour also includes a magic show as part of the tour.
• David Copperfield's International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts, which is closed to the public, but available to researchers. It claims to be the largest collection of magic artifacts (80,000 items), notwithstanding the American Museum of Magic. It began in 1991 when Copperfield purchased the Mullholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts, which contained the world's largest collection of Houdini memorabilia.
• King of Magic Museum, Carrer Jonqueres, 15, 08003, Barcelona, Spain. An extension of a shop that opened in 1881, exhibits include pictures and memorabilia associated with illusionists, including Carlston, Fu-Li-Chang, and Horace Goldin.
• Le Grand David and His Spectacular Magic Company at the Larcom Theatre 13 Wallis Street in Beverly, Massachusetts 09515 has three galleries of exhibits, and is also the site of the longest continuously running magic show in the world.
• Magic Circle Museum, 12 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD, United Kingdom.
• Martinka & Co. Museum of Magic, 85 Godwin Avenue, Midland Park, New Jersey 07432.
• Magic and Movie Hall of Fame, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 (702) 737-1343 which includes exhibits on "local acts" Lance Burton, Siegfried & Roy and David Copperfield. Closed.
• Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum 31005 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334
• Ray Goulet's Mini Museum of Magic, 137 Spring Street, Watertown, Massachusetts 02742
• Museo Fournier de Naipes, Calle Cuchillería 54, 01001 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• Museo del Naipe, Carrer de l'Hospital, 1, 12594 Oropesa del Mar, Spain
• Museo Nazionale della Magia, Cagliari, Italy
• Musée de la Curiosité et de l'Insolite, 39 Beaumont, 06100 Nice, France
• Museu de Arte Mágica e Ilusionismo João Peixoto dos Santos (João Peixoto dos Santos Magical Arts and Illusionism Museum), Rua Silva Bueno 519 (conjunto 42), Ipiranga, BrasiSão Paulo 04208-050, Brazil.
• Museum for Magic and Illusions is at Rue de Namur 49 5380 PONTILLAS (FERNELMONT) Brussels, Belgium.
• Norwegian Museum of Magic founded in 1997 as the "Norwegian Magician Archives", concentrating on Norwegian magicians. Oslo, Norway.
• Rossy Magic Museum, in the Balkans. Founded in 2001, it features the collection of "the late great magician and collector Dezider Repovic." It includes 20.000 articles, 3.000 magic and magician books, including the first Serbian language book about magic. Svetozar F. Ognjanovic, Novi Sad. Magician.
• Smithsonian Institution, F Street Northwest Washington D.C., DC 20004. In 1985, on the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, Harry Blackstone, Jr. donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. the original floating light bulb - Thomas Edison designed and built it - and the original Casadega Cabinet, used in the "Dancing Handkerchief" illusion by his father, Harry Blackstone. This was the first ever donation accepted by the Smithsonian in the field of magic.
• Society of American Magicians Hall of Fame and Magic Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Museum in storage, seeking new location. Long out of view, the artifacts went on exhibit at the Whittier Museum for six months beginning in September 2012.
• Sveriges Magi-Arkiv is run by magician Christer Nilsson (stage name Christer el Ricco) in Nyköping, Sweden, and is the county's only magic museum.
• Teatro Museo El Rei de la Màgia, Carrer de les Jonqueres, 15, 08003 Barcelona, Spain The King of Magic Museum is one of the oldest establishments in the world dedicated exclusively to sale, manufacture and teaching of illusions. In 1881 it was opened by Partagas Catalan Joaquim. In celebration of it 130th anniversary, it expanded to include a theater museum dedicated to the art of sleight of hand and the study and dissemination of illusionism. History and art, nineteenth century ephemera including hand games, posters, photographs of premier magicians, books, pictures, etc. are exhibited. Exhibitions illustrate the history, evolution of magic and its influence on Spain long before "the arrival of Harry Potter to our lives." Magic shows will include important illusionists, such as Micky Xavier Conesa (a/k/a Giro), winner of the 2010 Merlin Award (the 'Oscar of Magic').

Closed museums

• Houdini Magical Hall of Fame, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Opened in May 1968 at 5019 Centre St., moved to 4983 Clifton Hill (Niagara Falls) in 1972, closed due to fire on April 30, 1995. Housed many significant items from Harry Houdini's personal collection, including a multitude of handcuffs and leg irons, a milk can escape, a wooden packing crate he used for underwater escapes, and the famed Chinese Water Torture Cell. Owned by Henry Muller, Vince Delorenzo, and partners.

Temporary exhibitions

• Before the Magic Towne House in New York City closed, some of Harry Houdini's artifacts were displayed there for thirteen years.
• Houdini: Art and Magic is an exhibition of Houdini paraphernalia and art inspired by him at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum. The show closed in New York on March 27, 2011, and was then displayed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Madison, Wisconsin.
• In 2010, fifteen museums in Singapore cooperated in hosting itinerant magic shows over the entire year.

Virtual "museums"

• Abracadabra! Magic Museum — "largest online museum of exhibits of authentic magic memorabilia"

Planned "museums"

• Museum of Magic. In 2007, this was said this would be "coming soon" and would have five galleries, with five permanent exhibitions:
  • Houdini
  • Magic in the 1800s This exhibit will concentrate particular on Robert Houdin;
  • The Passing of the Mantle This exhibit will expostulate upon the unspoken apprenticeship that existed among three of the greatest illusionists: Harry Kellar, renowned Howard Thurston, and Danté
  • Women in Magic “This exhibit will examine women's role in the evolution of magic. Contrary to popular belief, women in magic are not restricted to a role of assistant. There have been many female magicians, several of whom have been extremely influential to the conjuring arts.”
  • The Life and Times of Howard Thurston This exhibit displays an "all-encompassing collection of artifacts" which relate to Howard Thurston "considered one of the greatest magicians of all time."
  • In addition there will have revolving installations, including "Magic in the Movies," "How Magic Changed History," "The Science of Magic," "Magic in New York." These special exhibits will rotate on a quarterly basis.

The present status of the project is unknown.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• "World map of places related to magic". findacadabra. Retrieved Marach 27, 2013.