DEATH THAT GIVES BACK
We believe mourning should move us - into action, into compassion, into healing. That's why $2 from every ticket sold is donated to a mental health and suicide prevention charity. Handpicked by the museum's owners and changed quarterly. Because honoring the dead also means taking care of the living.
from across the eras- embalming instruments, post-mortem photography, funeral home ephemera, and items once used to comfort the grieving and commemorate the dead.
A vast array of funeral items
HUMAN OSTEOLOGY DISPLAYS
Deformed animals and anatomical anomalies
that honor the forms we leave behind - real human skulls and full skeletons.
These aren't just oddities; they are reminders of nature's wild experiments, preserved with reverence.
THE COLLECTION
Each piece is a portal. Each label tells a story. And each display invites you to face the truth most people spend their lives avoiding; death is not the end - it's the mirror of life.
Every visitor receives a toe tag as your admission. No barcodes. No flimsy paper. Just a real piece of the experience to hang on your wall, keep in your journal, or tuck into an altar. Consider it a souvenir from the edge.
The Toe Tag Ticket
a playful yet poignant reminder of mortality.
WHAT THE MOURNING MUSEUM STANDS FOR
This space is built on: respect for the dead, transparency about mortality, accessibility to death education, and a deep love for the strange, unsettling, and sublime. This is not a horror show. This is not shock-value tourism. This is for the ones who see beauty in decay, truth in stillness, and wisdom in the bones. You are not a visitor here. You are part of a living tradition of honoring death with intention and awe.