 -"(they)cover many aspects of the great magician's life."
Top Attraction
Official SitePHILADELPHIA INQUIRER-"top-notch" "amazing" TRAVEL CHANNEL- "must-see" "wonderful show by famous magicians. Lots of laughs-live animals & audience participation-for all ages" ROAD TRIP AMERICA-"first-rate magic show" "a spellbound audience" BEST-THINGS-PENSYLVANIA-"Fun, wonderful major happening." "Amazing, exciting. Family friendly." "World's Only Building devoted to Houdini. Can be seen no where else." THE BEST THINGS TO DO IN SCRANTON-"Magic Royalty" "legendary" "be prepared to be amazed" "3 hour tour/show" PENNSYLVANIA DAY TRIPS-"one of the most unique museums & attractions in the world." "great family fun" "Show includes two of the best, nationally known magicians."
We answer the phone every day of the year. EXCITING NEWS!!!
Sold out this weekend at The Houdini Museum. This year our two magicians won The Society of American Magicians
most prestigious award "The Magicians of the Year!"
| | 
We won! 2022 Voted #1 of all |
CLICK to go to Dorothy Dietrich's website
Inside cover is a photo of our Houdini Museum Entrance!
PLAYING NOW ON SCREEN HERE
A surprise Halloween Zoom event happened. On Oct. 31 last year when Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz did histories largest Houdini Seance, (201 people), when we MAY have reached Houdini???. At 1:26 PM, the exact time of Houdini's death when a printing block Houdini owned flipped over across the table. If you want to see a 53 second video when it happened
It was not planned!!! Luckly John Cox of the web site WildaboutHoudini.com videoed it (His link!) This is the picture on the printing block that fell.
Click the following links for other RAVE reviews.
Click here for our Trip Advisor reviews... 
"Fun, wonderful major event. Amazing, exciting - family friendly.
World's Only Building devoted to most famous magician of all time, Houdini. Can be seen no where else.
The New York Times, says -"high quality entertainment. Great for age 3 to 93.
fabulous stage magic show with noted magicians & live animals including doves, a rabbit, ducks, etc.
See film footage of Houdini not shown anywhere else"
Pennsylvania Day Trips"great fun for the family" "one of the most unique museums & attractions in the world. Includes two of the best, nationally known magicians, Dorothy Dietrich & John Bravo"
"Houdini Museum
offers memorabilia & top-notch acts" "using doves, a rabbit, ducks -they float a boy picked from the audience
that my husband is still pondering."
Dorothy Dietrich Wikipedia page on Dorothy Dietrich
Our latest segment on "Mysteries At The Museum" will run thru the year.
TV's longest running series running for 23 seasons. This Episode-titled "Scared to Death"-features a 9 minute story with Dorothy Dietrich discussing Houdini's death-& highlights The Water Torture & asks "was Houdini Murdered or poisoned by the Spiritualists?" Check their site for our other showings. Dietrich Mirror Cuffs,
*LINK-Frequently Asked Questions on our movie, tours, magicians & show.
The full fun experience takes 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
A non-stop wonderful major event. Amazing, exciting, historic, & family friendly. Fun & educational. The World's Only Building devoted Harry Houdini. He did special challenges in our area. Can be seen no where else. The New York Times called our events "high quality entertainment." Great for all ages, from 3 to 93. With noted professional magicians & live animals including doves, a rabbit, & ducks. Includes the rarest film footage of Harry Houdini not shown anywhere else. N ot to be missed.
See us float an audience member in the air, pass a hoop around them & float them back down. Featuring Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz.
* As with all ticketed events reservations are not cancelable, but we will make our best effort to reschedule you for another date. All sales are final.
1433 N Main Ave. (not Street) Scranton, PA.
I-81 to exit 190 (Main Ave., not Street) left two miles.
Subject to availability. Non scary & motivational too. The fun event can take 2 1/2 hours or longer.
in the Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Pocono, Poconos, Stroudsburg, NE PA Pennsylvania area.
Available at other times for bus, school, party groups & corporate events.
For groups, 20 or more, we can open any day-morning, afternoon or evening,
365 days a year.
HIGHLY AIR CONDITIONED ALL THE WAY!
Picked by the Travel Channel as a top attraction for magic in the ENTIRE world. Our magicians are world
famous & have performed in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, on HBO specials, Biography Channel, ABC, CBS, NBC,
Ripley's, "You Asked for it," Montel Williams, etc.
Call (570) 342-5555, (570) 383-1821, (570) 383-9297
Links to Houdini Museum's appearances on NBC's The Office
***** END OF SECTION *****
OTHER EVENTS AVAILABLE... Close up of our theater area
*LINK-"HAUNTED!" A Fun Psychic & Seance Evening.
Click to see a few pictures of the Harry Houdini tour
CLICK HERE to view part of the interior.
Room features photos of Houdini's mother & father from Houdini's home, & a copy of the
bust we replaced at Houdini's grave at a cost of $10,000.
Call now! (570) 383-1821
WE DO PRIVATE BIRTHDAY PARTIES, FUNDRAISERS, ADULT BUS & SCHOOL GROUPS ANY DAY OF THE YEAR BY RESERVATION.
NEW! Click here for information on our BIRTHDAY PARTIES available 7 days a week.
Free Parking. Enter front or back.
DIRECTIONS TO 81 -
From the East (NY, NJ, Stroudsburg, etc. 80W to 380N to 81N.
From the North East. 84 W to 380 N to 81 N.
From the West (Pittsburgh. 80W to 81N.
From the South (Philia, etc) Tpk Extension 476N to Pittston exit to 81 N.
From Allentown, etc. 33N to 80W to 380N to 81N
One of the Houdini Museum exhibit rooms in a 150 year old historic building and one time disco .
Click to see few pictures taken during a Houdini Museum tour
Press here to get our summer schedule of shows and tours
HOUDINI MUSEUM FUND
We need your help in supporting our historic projects like these!
We also keep up othere historic sites such as DellODell.com, JoanBrandon.com, LarryWeeks.info, BulletCatch.com,
etc. We cannot continue alone. We are a 501 C-3 Non profit. All donations are tax deductible.
Featured on the Travel Channel "Mysteries At The Museum" Houdini's Most Famous Escape!
Houdini & Doyle! Yet another Travel Channel "Mysteries At The Museum" appearance.
Link-Travel Channel Mysteries at the Museum with Dorothy Dietrich promo
Recently featured on the Huffington Post TV show. and NPR Weekend edition.
The action hit movie "Now You See Me" used Dorothy's career and work as inspiration for role.
We recently restored Houdini's bust to world wide acclaim. Destroyed by vandals 40 years ago!
ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERNATIONAL BIG STORY.
Click! NBC TV News story about Houdini grave
|
 |
 |
 |
| We restored Houdini's bust to his grave site missing for 36 years.
Click for text of story-Long Island Newsday.
Click for pictures of our historic restoring of Houdini's bust missing from his gravesite 36 years. |
BEST OF THE BEST!!! Houdini Museum chosen best museum in all of NE PA & best exhibit. Text of NE PA story. A Travel Channel special featured us as one of the top places in the world for magic on "MAGIC ROAD TRIP". See it in person in Scranton. |
Award given by the US Post office to the Houdini Museum,
Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz for help on the Houdini stamp, 3rd feature story this season on "Mysteries At The Musuem" |
We've done the Original Houdini Seance for 30 years on Halloween. We do them in New York City at NY's original Houdini Museum, now in Scranton, PA. Also at his house on 113 St., and at his first home in NYC, etc. Pictured at one of our Houdini seances are magic legends Walter B. Gibson (in overcoat), Dorothy Dietrich, and Milbourne Christopher. Walter, Houdini's ghostwriter & confidant wrote the famous Shadow series and over 2,000 books, many on magic as well as on Houdini. Bess Houdini asked him to continue the Original Houdini Seances when she stopped. He passed on the legacy, responsibility and honor to celebrity magician Dorothy Dietrich, who's on our Board of Directors .Lately 10 or so people have begun to copy us, hoping to cash in, and charging from $25 to $100. Bess Houdini asked the seances not be done for monetary gain. We have NEVER AND WILL NEVER CHARGE AN ADMISSION FEE. |
 |
Recently found information Houdini's early days in Williamsport, PA |
Click here for new page on J. Gordon Whitehead "The Man Who Killed Houdini.
Available any day 12 months a year for bus groups, schools, a fundraiser, parties, birthdays, etc.
We're also responsible for the yearly famous Halloween Houdini Seance on the anniversary of Houdini's death, that was done by Houdini's wife and then passed on to biographer and writer of the Shadow series Walter B. Gibson who, before he died, passed it on to our Dorothy Dietrich. Annual Halloween event. Click here for more information
We also supply top notch magicians for Trade Shows, Corporate Events, Malls, Colleges, close up magic, stage shows, etc.
If you can't get to the museum, we invented HoudiniOpoly so you can experience us right in your home!
Playing the game is almost as good as a tour of the museum. (but No Magic Show!)
Designed so every time you play different fun Houdini facts come up!
Click here to learn more & order at HoudiniOpoly.com. Fun & Educational!
Newly found HOUDINI written book!
"The Zanetti Mystery," discovered by Joe M. Notaro and written BY HOUDINI in 1925, a romantic detective thriller
(partly ghostwritten). This 8 Chapter novel was serialized for 8 weeks in Newspapers around the country,
but never published as a book.
The paperback combines Houdini's love of mystery with his crusade against fraudulent mediums.
The character of Zanetti shows the dark side of HOUDINI; what HOUDINI feared he could have
become had he shifted to the racket of spiritualist trickery. HOUDINI would sometimes play
Zanetti on stage
during his exposure act. Original illustrations, & a bibliography of other HOUDINI works. $24.99 Call (310) 384-4607
Link to info on 2019 Milbourne Lifetime Achievement Award given to Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz
( Different spooky event) A totally different event with separate times, pricing and admission.
HAUNTED! Mind Mysteries & THE Beyond.
Seats available by reservation only. Mostly Saturday evenings with other evenings in
September, October and November.
A completely separate evening event put on by Psychic Theater. "Haunted! Mind Mysteries & THE Beyond" is available year round by reservation only. A different and unique event.
A 3 hour plus event ADVANCE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Mentalism, mind reading, telekinesis, & sightless vision. Learn the story of the murder/suicide/electrocution in this 150 year old historic home. Attend a seance in the dark, which is part of this highly acclaimed 3 hour plus paranormal event! Picked by the Pennsylvania Department of Tourism as one of the ten most haunted places in the state! Not for the weak of heart! No pacemakers please. We dare you to stay to the end! We suggest you reserve several days or weeks in advance. $35.00. Often sold out - Free refreshments (soda, cookies, pizza, etc.) at intermission. As with most theatrical persentations reservations are not refundable. However we will make our best effort to seat you at another performance for up to a year or more.
For more information Go to PsychicTheater.com
| HOUDINI Quick Menu | For Previous Visitors |
Poster display from our Harry Houdini Grade, Middle and High School Assembly Shows
Best Role Model, Harry Houdini! Harry Houdini Study Guide. About 60 pages.
World's only ongoing traveling Houdini exhibitm HoudiniDisplays.com
Press release about the exhibit
(Jump to Recent Harry Houdini News & Contents list)
FREE LINK TO US. SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS Harry Houdini Museum
Go to
Pocono Fun Guide
Go to
One Page description of major attractions in the Pocono-Poconos-Scranton area.
Go to
Add a Free link to the Fun Guide on your site.Go to
Pocono DirectoryGo to
Scranton Directory
Go to
Pocono free discount coupon Page
Go to
Poconos Museums
Go to
Go to over 200 Scranton & Pocono Hotels & Restaurants listed by area and town.
Go to
Comprehensive detailed list of the BEST POCONO LODGING by area.
Go to
Comprehensive list of places to EAT by area.
Go to
Blinky The Birthday Party Clown.. Area's top clown for Birthday Parties. Live animal, balloon animals, face painting, games, etc.
Press release-The World's only ongoing Houdini traveling exhibit