American Museum of Magic
The Museum's purpose today is what it has always been: to educate the public, to preserve historic artifacts of the craft, to inspire magic lovers, to establish a resource for scholars and to celebrate the men and women who have been purveyors of wonder throughout the ages, the magician-entertainer. The American Museum of Magic is devoted to magic as entertainment, not the occult.
Nearly a million items from the 16th century to the present day are contained in the two buildings the museum occupies in the Historic District of Marshall, Michigan, a pleasant and charming town midway between Chicago and Detroit.
Although its name is "American" the museum represents magicians throughout the world, containing authentic specimens of illusions equipment, advertising, lithographs, posters, publicity, conjuring apparatus, props, scrapbooks, route books, films, videotapes, recordings, letters photographs, traveling cases, trunks, costumes, magic sets, figurines, artwork, graphics, sculptures, personal items and extensive memorabilia of other kinds.
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