Museum of Death
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Museum of Death is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 113 m. Mount Disappointment stands 1,819 m to the northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Walk of Fame, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 5.2 miles off.
The story
Museum of Death is a museum with locations on Selma Ave in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. It was established in June 1995 by J. D. Healy and Catherine Shultz with the museum's stated goal being "to make people happy to be alive." Originally founded in San Diego, the museum began as a hobby of Healy and Shultz in a building claimed to be the city's first mortuary. They would write to serial killers they were interested in, and then show off the artwork their pen pals had created once a year at a specialist show. In 1995, after a few years of exhibitions, the collection, and many other materials, were made into a museum. In mid 1999, the couple attempted to acquire a large amount of materials from the Heaven's Gate cult suicides. Although they had been able to purchase many items prior to the main police auction, their interest in buying enough merchandise to recreate the scene in its entirety, led to enormous press interest and publicity. They were subsequently evicted by their landlord, and moved to Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Prior to the new Los Angeles building becoming a museum, the building was the home of Westbeach Recorders, and prior to that, Producers Studio, where Pink Floyd and others recorded. The walls include deadening agents to help with recordings, which now serve to lend a quiet acoustic setting for the various exhibitions.
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Dates from 1995.
Wikidata Q15715949, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 5.2 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Queen - Walk of Fame: 0.1 mi
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions: 0.2 mi
- Jennifer Aniston: 0.2 mi
- Mark Harmon: 0.2 mi
- Jennifer Garner: 0.3 mi
- Lighthouse Immersive (Los Angeles): 0.1 mi
- Los Angeles Fire Department Museum and Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum: 0.3 mi
- Museum of Selfies: 0.5 mi
- Guinness World Records Museum: 0.5 mi
- Hollywood and Vine: 0.2 mi
- Leonard Nimoy: 0.4 mi
- Chancellor Apartments: 0.4 mi
- Whitley Heights (Monument): 0.6 mi
- Buster Keaton Studios: 0.7 mi
- Selma Park: 0.2 mi
- Yucca Street Mini Park: 0.4 mi
- De Longpre Park: 0.4 mi
- Gordon Street Park: 0.6 mi
- Hollywood Recreation Center: 0.6 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.8 mi
- Yamashiro Gardens: 0.8 mi
- Hollywood Sculpture Garden: 1.0 mi
- Spanish Garden: 1.5 mi
- American Garden: 1.5 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 1.2 mi
- Hillpark Open Space: 1.4 mi
- LADWP Open Space: 1.7 mi
- MRCA Open Space: 1.9 mi
- Lake Hollywood Open Space: 1.9 mi
- Olive Hill: 2.0 mi
- Mount Lee: 2.4 mi
- Burbank Peak: 2.5 mi
- Mount Hollywood: 2.5 mi
- Cahuenga Peak: 2.6 mi
- Captain's Roost: 2.5 mi
- Tom LaBonge Panorama: 2.5 mi
- 3-Mile Tree Picnic Area: 2.7 mi
- Cedar Grove: 3.0 mi
- Joe Klass Water Stop: 3.2 mi
- Temescal Falls: 12.1 mi
- Brown Mountain Dam Waterfall: 12.7 mi
- Millard Falls: 13.5 mi
- Santa Ynez Falls: 13.7 mi
- Royal Falls: 14.0 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 8.3 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 10.6 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 13.2 mi
- Fascination Spring: 13.3 mi
- Eagle Spring: 13.7 mi
- Mother's Beach: 11.0 mi
- Palisades Beach: 11.8 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 13.5 mi
- Castle Rock Beach: 14.0 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 14.2 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 14.8 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 17.9 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.3 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 18.5 mi
- Malibu Bluffs: 21.9 mi
- Spa Palace: 4.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Museum of Death. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Disappointment | NE 52° | 1,819 m | 16.3 mi |
| Mount Deception | NE 50° | 1,767 m | 16.0 mi |
| Mount Markham | NE 54° | 1,746 m | 16.2 mi |
| Mount Lowe | NE 54° | 1,699 m | 15.7 mi |
| Josephine Peak | NE 38° | 1,694 m | 16.3 mi |
| Mount Lukens | NNE 24° | 1,546.6 m | 12.8 mi |
| Condor Point | NNE 20° | 1,538.3 m | 16.2 mi |
| Muir Peak | ENE 58° | 1,427 m | 15.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:32 | 20:09 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:19 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 06:56 | 16:10 | 16:49 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Los Angeles/Hollywood · 1 mi
- Los Angeles/Wilshire · 2 mi
- West Hollywood · 2 mi
- Los Angeles/Northwest · 3 mi
- Universal City · 3 mi
- Beverly Hills · 4 mi
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