Museum of Death
Museum of Death is a museum with locations on Hollywood Boulevard 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 11:00 AM—8:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum
- Address: 6363 Selma, 90028
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ricardo Montalbán Theatre and Dolby Theatre.
Ricardo Montalbán Theatre
Theater building
The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre is a theater in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Ricardo Montalbán Theatre is situated 590 feet east of Museum of Death.
Dolby Theatre
Theater building
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The Dolby Theatre is a live-performance auditorium in the Ovation Hollywood shopping mall and entertainment complex, on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Dolby Theatre is situated 3,600 feet west of Museum of Death.
Guaranty Building
Historic building
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Guaranty Building, also known as Guaranty Building and Loan Association, Hollywood Guaranty Building, Allstate Title Building, and L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition Building, is a historic high-rise Beaux Arts office building located at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Guaranty Building is situated 830 feet northeast of Museum of Death.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hollywood and Yucca Corridor.
Hollywood
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No trip to Los Angeles is complete without a visit to its most famous district: Hollywood, best known as the self-declared entertainment capital of the world.
Yucca Corridor
Neighborhood
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The Yucca Corridor is a '"formerly notorious" and "once crime-ridden" stretch of Yucca Street in Hollywood, California, north of Hollywood Boulevard and Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Whitley Heights
Neighborhood
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Whitley Heights is a residential neighborhood and historic preservation overlay zone in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Central Los Angeles, California.
Museum of Death
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.09988° or 34° 5′ 60″ northLongitude
-118.32901° or 118° 19′ 44″ westElevation
390 feet (119 metres)Open location code
85633MXC+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 4123733980OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Georgian—“Museum of Death” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف الموت”
- Georgian: “სიკვდილის მუზეუმი”
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