Medieval torture museum install#
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“They are intelligent enough to understand what is going on,” she said of her daughters, adding that her 11-year-old’s favorite display was a mounted one-eyed goat. Jocelyn Diaz, a tourist from Guam who visited the museum with her husband, Ramon, and their two daughters, Beatrice, 13, and Jasmine, 11, said she would not demand a refund if her children saw photos of impaled people. Some recent visitors to the museum - parents and children - say they have no problem with gruesome and freakish exhibits. “I was literally crying when I was packing it away,” she said.Ī few chilling curiosities remain on display, including a real shrunken human head and a sword used by the Japanese military to execute rebels and insurgents in the 1920s and ‘30s. Still, Silverman said she cherished many of the macabre exhibits and hated to store them away in a warehouse in Florida, including the skeleton of a two-headed baby. The Ripley’s museums and aquariums are owned and operated by Florida-based Ripley’s Entertainment, a subsidiary of Vancouver, Canada-based Jim Pattison Group. Silverman, who has managed the museum for five years, said she agreed with the call from her corporate bosses to remove many of the extreme exhibits.

Medieval torture museum install#

The museum closed for three months late last year to install 350 new exhibits, including a new collection of Marilyn Monroe clothes and photos. Over the last few years, Silverman said, many parents had demanded refunds, saying the exhibits were not appropriate for children. Regular admission is $16.99 for adults, $8.99 for children.

Medieval torture museum free#

Today and Saturday, the museum will offer discount tickets to anyone willing to eat a cooked ant, spider or grasshopper and free admission for anyone who will chomp down on a scorpion. The Ripley’s museum has been at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue for 20 years, displaying the freakish and the morbid. “It’s nice that businesses are reinvesting and upgrading.” “We’ve made considerable progress in upgrading the neighborhood,” said Leron Gubler, president and chief executive of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. The new shimmering facades and pricey tourist attractions represent a dramatic reversal for the boulevard, which was known in the 1970s and ‘80s as a haven for runaways, prostitutes and drug dealers. The Hollywood Wax Museum completed a renovation last year and the TCL Chinese Theater - formerly known as Grauman’s Chinese - closed this month to complete a remodeling project to accommodate a 94-foot-wide IMAX screen.