In case you haven't seen it yet, here's the new sign that recently went up at the Palace of Wonders (1210 H Street). By the way, if you haven't checked out their line-up recently you probably should. They've got a lot of new stuff. Trivia night and female arm wrestling have stuck around, and of course there are plenty of burlesque and sideshow type acts, but they've also got things like this:
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
Museum of Oddities Lecture Series presents PHRENOLOGY!
Doors 12pm
Price: Adults $5, Kids 7-11 $3
Featured Speaker and noted Lecturer Alexander Kensington explains the 19th century science of Phrenology, The Original Scientific Biometric of Morality.
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Museum of Oddities Lecture Series presents OUTING THE SIDESHOW!
12pm Doors, 1pm Lecture
Price: Adults $5, Kids 7-11 $3
Internationally celebrated sideshow historian and lecturer James Taylor * asks the most important question about the sideshow businesss - “Can you really out the sideshow when the business is totally honest anyway?” - and then asks the audience to play along. Or meet him half way!
They've also added a monster movie night, and Kostume Karaoke (no cover for either).
*James Taylor opperated the Baltimore Museum that previously held many of the items now housed at Palace of Wonders.
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UPDATE
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Note that the museum at the Palace of Wonders now has its own website. The museum, which is open every first and third Sunday from First and third Sundays of every month from 12pm until 4pm, caters to all ages. Vistors can explore permanent collection of oddities, and also take in whatever lecture is offered that day.UPDATE
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Adults: $5 • Kids 7-11: $3
Kids under 6: FREE
3 comments:
nice sign.
let's hope it's just one of many that will pop up around H street.
Palace of Wonders is running a cool radio ad on DC101 these days. I heard it yesterday afternoon.
I heard that they cut a patron off last Saturday night and he walked across the street, picked up a newspaper box, carried it back across the street and used it to smash in the glass on the front door.
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