The Halloween Cultural Preservation Museum Project

Howdy weirdos and ghouls alike! The Halloween Cultural Preservation Museum needs a home for Phase II 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 be based in the Portland, OR area and 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: Phase I Is Currently Underway In The Form Of A Pop-Up (See Below For More Details). We Are Now Fundraising For The FULL-SIZED Museum

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:

UPDATE OCT. 2023:

Thanks to your support, Phase I is currently underway in the form of a Pop-Up Exhibit! Located in the former Spencer’s on the second floor of the Lloyd Center Mall in PDX.

The Pop-Up began in October and is currently projected to run through the end of December 2023. We are now looking for a much larger permanent location to construct our FULL-SIZED immersive Halloween Museum experience and begin work on Phase II !

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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