Perusing all of this takes, on average, about 45 minutes, but visitors may stay longer if they like. Exhibits on terrorism, cannibalism, and embalming are included, as well as a collection of shrunken heads.

There are videos in which the death is not reenacted, it’s actually happening on the screen, which is a big part of the reason for Healy’s warning about who should visit. Simpson trial, and Manson family photographs. There are letters from serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, several paintings by serial killer John Wayne Gacy, memorabilia (including hair recovered from the crime scene) from the O. Kevorkian’s suicide machines is on display, as well as a business card from Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who killed President John F. Those who do visit the Museum of Death who perhaps should not have and wind up fainting get free t-shirts that read “I passed out at the Museum of Death…and lived to talk about it.” They call them “falling down ovations” at the museum. There is no age restriction because, as the website says, “WE ALL DIE,” but caution and consideration are urged. The exhibits, which can be very graphic, are not for those with faint hearts or weak stomachs. Healy and Catherine Shultz brought their collection of body bags, autopsy videos, skeletons, pieces of taxidermy, letters and pictures sent to them by serial killers, and various other death-themed oddities to the French Quarter. Twenty years after opening the original museum in California, in 1995, founders J.

From paintings by serial killers to shrunken heads, New Orleans’s Museum of Death displays as many approaches to death as it can fit within its four walls.

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