The Halloween Cultural Preservation Museum Project

Howdy weirdos and ghouls alike! The Halloween Cultural Preservation Museum (once again) needs a home for Phase I of our project!

The Halloween Cultural Preservation Museum is a multi-faceted immersive historical project and interactive experience that aims to keep the traditions and spirit of Halloween’s golden age alive and well through education and preservation.

The project will proceed in several phases, starting small and growing larger as adequate funding is secured. Culminating in a Victorian haunted house facade leading into an underground museum (might have to compromise on the underground aspect) with multiple exhibits and a classic dark ride-styled cart conveyance that will take you through an array of scenes showcasing Halloween culture through the decades. It will also house an archival facility in which blow-molds, die-cuts, and other decor will be scanned, cast, and reproduced for record-keeping, reproduction, and posterity.

UPDATE 2024: Thanks To You, Last Year’s Phase I Portland, OR Pop-Up Was A Blast! Unfortunately Due To Unforeseen Circumstances, We Have Relocated To The Northeast US. With Moving Costs Forcing Us To Delay Plans For Phase II, We Will Be Operating This 2024 Season As Another Pop-Up Scale Exhibit (Phase 1.5?)

But first things first, Phase I of the project needs a space to call home!! Phase I will be a smaller-scale showcase and atmospherically immersive exhibit featuring authentically vintage decorations and media (1920s-90s) to give visitors a taste of what’s to come and hopefully generate enough funds for the full museum experience to take form. But we cannot do it alone, we need your help!

Funding for Phase I will be utilized in the following ways:

It is crucial we do not allow the jack-o-lantern flame of Halloween’s very soul to die out. The foundational traditions and culture of Halloween have been on the decline ever since the early 2000s, and it is our mission to to correct that course. The very idea of Halloween represents the best of open-mindedness and the imagination of youth, the perspective that anything is possible. It reminds us of the presence of the spiritual world and our connection with nature, and an celebration of both the dark and the light aspects of life. If there was ever a time that the world needed to embrace these qualities, it’s now! 

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