So it's my way of sharing it with the public. But the actual museum itself is something that only scholars can see and filmmakers and authors that - because there's so many secrets involved. So what we do is we take exhibitions out from the museum, and we put them into museums around the world. Why did you decide to put the book together? Was it a way to give just the public a window to this museum?ĬOPPERFIELD: Exactly - because there's so many secrets involved in this museum that I can't really do public tours. So after, you know, a hundred years (laughter), we have all those things have come together again. And other books which were once in those cabinets are now back into the cabinets again. We just got the actual cabinets from Houdini's house, and we brought it here. The other half is in the Library of Congress. Half of Houdini's library was given to John Mulholland. ![]() It was the Mulholland Library, which is an amazing collection of history. MARTINEZ: David, how long have you been building this museum? And where on earth have you gone to find things? - because I'm imagining an Indiana Jones of magic in a way.ĬOPPERFIELD: It is. It's a part of the world that was very, very important - you know, the camaraderie and the association with artists and the mentorship that existed in the brick-and-mortar magic shop, yeah. ![]() And people get very emotional when they come in here. You recreated that magic shop from your childhood, from your youth and put it in that museum.ĬOPPERFIELD: Yeah. Abrams and Orson Welles - Tannen's Magic Shop in New York - I recreated it here in the museum. ![]() And also, a magic store that inspired me and J.J. Copperfield is very protective of his collection, and he told us that it includes some of the all-time greats.ĭAVID COPPERFIELD: All of Houdini's things, all of Robert-Houdin's props, manuscripts, letters, amazing sawing-in-half illusions by Dante and Richiardi and Slydini, all kinds of incredible artifacts. It's only open to scholars and historians of magic and now to you - sort of - by way of his new book "David Copperfield's History Of Magic." It includes pictures of hundreds of magic artifacts and the stories of magicians who used them. Illusionist David Copperfield's museum of magic is somewhere on the outskirts of Las Vegas.
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