Read about our Travel Channel's Mysteries At The Museum show about one of Houdini's
most controversial escapes. Click for more information.
Link to Travel Channel Mysteries at the Museum with Dorothy Dietrich promo
We were just featured on the Huffington Post TV show. and NPR Weekend edition. The action thriller 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. It was destroyed by vandals 38 years ago! Reserve to visit us in our 150 year old historic building at 1433 N. Main Ave, (not Street) in Scranton, in the Pocono Mountain Region. The Only Building In The World Dedicated To Houdini! 570 383 1821
NEW! Click the following outside links for reviews of our events.
Top 10 Greatest Road Trip Destinations in the U.S. Amazing! Others on this list of 10 include Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Henry Ford Museum. Hoover Dam. Niagara Falls. State and National Parks. Grand Canyon
Road Trip America.com"first-rate magic show" "a spellbound audience"
I GO U GO.com"a must see", "a perfect day", "Great place."
TRAVEL @ gather.com"largest collection of Houdini material", "only building devoted to the widely acknowledged "Greatest Magician Ever"
Pennsylvania Day Trips"great fun for the family". "one of the most unique museums and attractions in the world. The show also includes two of the best, nationally known magicians, Dorothy Dietrich and John Bravo."
Kid friendly Reviews""Fun with the Family" Featured on the Travel Channel's Magic Road Trip", "a must-see", "A wonderful magic show is performed by nationally known magicians such as Dorothy Dietrich and Bravo the Great. Lots of laughs, live animals, and audience participation. The Halloween "Spook-tacular" Theater of Illusion takes place from Columbus Day through Halloween. Appropriate for all ages, this magic show features classic illusions with nothing too scary for little ones."
Travel Tips USA Today"the Poconos boast several historic attractions and tourist sites". "you'll find a wealth of exciting things to do in this region". "The Houdini Museum...inside a 100-year-old building...suitable for all ages and feature magic acts that incorporate live animals, including doves, poodles and rabbits, plus a guided tour of the building."
Dorothy DietrichWicipedia page on Dorothy Dietrich
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/things-pocono-mountains-5018.html
The Houdini Tour & Magic Show available Saturday, & Sunday every weekend. We open at 1 PM. Reserve Now! (570) 383-1821, or (570) 342-5555.
We will be closed for vacation from December 16 through the third week in January.
Tickets available for a different event, The Scranton Ghost Walk available every evening, 7:45 PM
The Haunted Seance show will reopen in the spring. However can be made available for groups of 13 or more most anytime.
RESERVATONS REQUIRED FOR ALL EVENTS
Reserve for special Houdini Museum Tour and Magic show reduced price with film, tour and magic show combined. Open 1 PM, continuous. Come at least 1 1/2 hours before closing at 4 PM to see it all. Come earlier and see more!
( July and August we open every day.)
A popular five star national event. A full afternoon of fun for all ages for one price! A movie, a guided tour and a top professional fun 55 minute stage magic show. Our magicians have starred on network television including Home Box Office, NBC, CBS, ABC, Biography, History, and Travel Channels, etc., with such movie stars as Tony Curtis, who played Houdini in the movie and Bill Cosby. Featured on "Deals From The Dark Side," "The Office," "House (MD)", etc.
Reservations suggested, and are at a discounted price. Why take the risk to drive here and be turned away. Call (570) 383-1821 or (570) 342-5555.
The Houdini Tour & Magic Show is a continuous non-stop wonderful major event. It is amazing, exciting, historic, and family friendly. A full afternoon that is fun for both locals and tourists. The world's only building devoted to most famous magician of all time, Harry Houdini, who did many special challenges in our area. Can be seen no where else. The New York Times, the most critical paper in the world, called our events "high quality entertainment." Great for all ages, from 3 to 93. Includes a fabulous fun 55 minute stage magic show with noted professional magicians and live animals including doves, a rabbit, a duck & two poodles. Seen on hundreds of national television shows. Includes the rarest film footage of Harry Houdini that can be seen anywhere, a fun guided tour of our famous collection & ends with the magic show. Not to be missed.
SPECIAL REDUCED PRICING: There is a special reduced price for everything, the movie, guided tour, magic & main stage show. Reservations made on the phone in advance is only $17.95 per ticket for adults & $14.95 for youngsters 11 & under. This is better than any other discount or coupon. Regular price at the door is $20 for all tickets, if available. If this same event were in a high rent major city it would cost about $50 to $60. It is subsidized by sales in the souvenir shop which is only opened once at the end of the movie, tour & show.
See us float a audience member up in the air, pass a hoop around them & float them back down. Great fun, educational & motivational too. Featuring Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz.
* As with all ticked events reservations are not cancelable, but we wil make our best effort to reschedule you for another date. Sales are final.
1433 N Main Ave. (not Street) Scranton, PA.
I-81 to exit 190 (Main Ave) left two miles. in the Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Pocono, Poconos, Stroudsburg, NE PA Pennsylvania area. Available all other times for bus, school, & party groups.
Also for groups, 20 or more, we can open any day of the week, morning, afternoon or evening, 365 days a year.
Non stop continuous from 1 PM. The closer you get there to 1 PM the better, but no later than 2:30 if you want to see the stage show.
You can see the complete tour and show if you come anytime between 1 to 2:30 PM for a full afternoon of fun. If you arrive around 1 PM expect to have about 3 hours of fun, if you arrive around 2:30 PM expect to have about 2 1/2 hours of fun, as the later tours tend to be a bit shorter. Picked by the Travel Channel as one of the top attractions for magic in the ENTIRE world. Our magicians are world famous and have performed in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, on Home Box Office specials, Biography Channel, ABC, CBS, NBC, Ripley's, "You Asked for it," Montel Williams, etc.
Call (570) 342-5555, (570) 383-1821.
Last complete show & tour is about 2:30 PM. Reservations suggested & are discounted.
We also have tickets for a different event at another location, the Scranton Ghost Walk, every day of the year. Featured on an NBC "The Office" TV show.
Close up picture of our intimate theater area.
Click here to see a few pictures of the Harry Houdini tour
CLICK HERE a view of the interior. This is the room that features the photos of Houdini's mother & father that hung in Houdini's home.
Call now! (570) 342-5555 or (570) 383-1821
WE ALSO DO PRIVATE BIRTHDAY PARTIES, FUNDRAISERS, & ADULT BUS & SCHOOL GROUPS ANY DAY OF THE YEAR BY RESERVATION.
A great place for a magical BIRTHDAY PARTY by reservation, any day of the year!
1433 N. Main Ave., Scranton, PA. (570) 342-5555, (570) 383-1821.
Take I-81 to Exit 190 the Main Ave. Exit, LEFT onto Main exactly 2 miles to 1433 N. Main Ave. (not Street). Scranton, PA. 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
If you like paranormal events you might also try The Scranton Ghost Walk, daily, rain or shine, after dark by ADVANCE RESERVATIONS, daily at http://ScrantonGhostWalk.com Ghost walks of historic downtown Scranton everyday of the year! Depending on the day, walks available at 7 & 8 PM. Great to do at Halloween time.
Call (570) 383-9297, (570) 342-5555. for more Historic Scranton Ghost Walk Attraction information.
Click here for our Birthday Party information. Available seven days a week. JB of Scranton says "Kids love it and it is more personal and fun than Chuck E. Cheese!"
Click for our Harry Houdini School Study Guide for school field trips and PTA or PTO School Assembly Programs.
PTA or PTO SCHOOL ASSEMBLY PROGRAM TEACHERS AND PARENTS ... for students K-12. Includes many features from "Character Counts" and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory. Click here for our School Assembly Programs.
Available any day 12 months a year for bus groups, schools, a fundraiser, parties, birthdays, etc.
We are also responsible for the yearly famous Halloween Harry Houdini Seance on the anniversary of Harry Houdini's death, that was done by Harry 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 Dorothy Dietrich. We also supply top notch magicians for Trade Shows, Corporate Events, Malls, Colleges, close up magic, stage shows, etc.
( Different spooky event)
A totally different event with separate times, pricing and admission.
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Harry Houdini! His magic & escapes. The only building in the world totally devoted to Harry Houdini. Tours change & includes a magic show.
We cover Harry Houdini's career & facts about Harry Houdini not found elsewhere & growing. The Harry Houdini Museum exhibit and 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.
NEW! NEW! The women in Houdini's life. A work in progress.
NEW WEB SITE NEW! Dell O'Dell.com Famous lady magician of the first half of the 20th century. 1897-1962. A work in progress.
NEW WEB SITE NEW! Joan Brandon.com Lady magician and famous hypnotist of the mid 20th century. 1914-1979. A work in progress.
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| We are considered the world's leading authority for accurate and official information about Houdini, magic, and escapes. We have been consulted by The New York Times, The London Times, The History Channel, The Cris Angel show and many others as consultants. We have been approved and often visited by the Houdini family. Before the recent blitz the Houdini Tour & Show has been on The Travel Channel's "Magic Road Trip," Biography and the BBC's "Dead Famous, and "100 Myths & Legends!" Dorothy Dietrich recieved a lifetime acheivment award at Metro Magic on October 3, 2010 to the first standing ovation for this award. Dorothy Dietrich was invited as a Houdini expert to speak at the``Houdini exhibit at The Jewish Museum of New York in November, 2010 in a panel discussion on Houdini. She was also the only magician asked to do an escape, for which she received a standing ovation. Dorothy Dietrich was honored by Walter B. Gibson who asked her to continue the original Houdini Seances, which Bess Houdini had asked Mr. Gibson to continue after Mrs Houdini stopped doing them in 1936.
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Columbia University Press. picked the most noted magicians of the late 20th century and included... Siegfried and Roy... Doug Henning... Harry Blackstone, Jr., David Copperfield..... and Dorothy Dietrich.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Columbia University Press 2006
ON NATIONAL TV!
Harry Houdini on TRAVEL CHANNEL & THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL.
WHAT FOLLOWS IS A SLIDE SHOW OF OUR TRAVELING HOUDINI EXHIBIT:
MONTEL WILLIAMS SHOW! Travel Channel and History Channel
Dorothy Dietrich was on the Montel Williams Show recently as well as the Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel again on "Mysteries At The Museum" and Exploring The Unknown. Montel, called her "The World's Leading Female Magician and Escape Artist," showed clips of her doing the Jinxed Bullet Catch at Resorts International in Atlantic City and she escaped from a straight-Jacket. The show sought out the world's greatest women in various fields. Dorothy is the first woman in history to accomplish the jinxed catch in the mouth. The one stunt Houdini backed down on! She's also the first women to escape from a Straight Jacket with a burning rope from the bottom of a parachute ride, a stunt Houdini never did. Discovery Channel has done several different segments at the Houdini Museum exhibit. Also check out
The History Channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded! with some reworked Houdini Museum material about Houdini's unusual death. Get the real storyhere!
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Our School Assembly Programs
Poster display from our Harry Houdini Grade, Middle and High School Assembly Shows
Harry Houdini Study Guide. About 60 pages.
Best Role Model, Harry Houdini!
Harry Houdini Museum directors help launch the book, "Houdini!!!"
Pictured are Author Kenneth Silverman (Houdini book author) , Dorothy Dietrich
and Dick Brooks. Dietrich and
Brooks were booked by the publishers, (Harper Collins)
to perform on the big stage for the New York City Book
Fair and our Houdini exhibit took first prize of the entire Fair.
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About the book, Houdini!!!
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Learn about some of the Magicians who make this possible.
Go to  Home Page of Dorothy Dietrich, leading female magician and a director of the Harry Houdini Museum exhibit. Covers bullet catch, straight jacket escapes, animals, TV appearances,
Go to Home Page of Dick Brooks, well known mystery entertainer and a director of the Harry Houdini Museum 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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OUR SPONSORS Houdini Gravesite Fund
We have been asked by the family of Houdini & the management of the Houdini Grave to provide for its upkeep. Please donate to this cause. On Sept. 27, 2012 at our own expense we restored the bust that was missing for 36 years on his grave. Thank you,
HOUDINI BUILDING FUND
HELP! We need your help in fixing our century old buiding! This past year because of the floods and hurricanes our parking lot retaining wall caved in. The cost is between $20,000 and $30,000 for the restoration. In addition we have developed a roof leak and some items may be at risk. We had to move the huge framed pictures of Houdini's mom and dad from his home to another area to protect them. We need your help.
BREAKING NEWS. We have restored the missing bust at Houdini's grave. Gone for 36 years! A half page story world wide in the New York Times. Click here. and here.
CLICK to hear radio ads for both our shows. The family fun Houdini tour & show and our evening Haunted! Mysteries of THE Beyond! Then close that page.
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Kingdom Products, who donated products that helped restoreHoudini's grave site bust.
Concrete Texturing Tool and Supply, Inc., who donated products that helped restoreHoudini's grave site bust.
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