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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!"
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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
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
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
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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. |
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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.
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.
HOUDINI Quick Menu | For Previous Visitors |
World's only ongoing traveling Houdini exhibitm HoudiniDisplays.com
Press release about the exhibit
Press release-The World's only ongoing Houdini traveling exhibit
Official letter from the Harry Houdini Family on recent Hary Houdini exhume headlines click here.
Google links to how Dorothy Dietrich follows in Harry Houdini's footsteps as investigator of "psychics" who claim to contact your dead relatives or even Harry Houdini.
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Houdini! His magic & escapes. Only building in the world totally devoted to Houdini. Tours change & includes a magic show.
We cover Harry Houdini's career & facts about Harry Houdini not found elsewhere & growing. The
World's only ongoing traveling Houdini exhibit HoudiniDisplays.com
Press release about the exhibitand our magic shows have national and international significance, having been featured on many TV Shows including The Travel Channel's "Magic Road Trip."
Open for 20 years, prior to that on display at the legendary Magic Towne House in NYC where we also did the Harry Houdini Halloween seances (Harry Houdini's home town as an adult), that was then passed on to magician Dorothy Dietrich and moved to our new location here.
The Harry Houdini Museum exhibit and our magic shows have been called one of the most unique attractions in the world. Dates and times subject to change.
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