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HALLOWEEN MUSEUMS, GALLERIES & TOURS

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Los Angeles Halloween Museum Exhibitions, Art Galleries & Haunted Tours

Here you will find an eclectic list of high-culture and historical Halloween events in Los Angeles: night galleries devoted to macabre painting, photographs, and carvings; museums revealing secrets of death, dying, and spiritualism; historical tours emphasizing the sordid and the supernatural; and midnight ramblings among gravestones in real cemeteries. Whether you enjoy the subtle shivers of wandering through allegedly haunted locations or the refined pleasures of appreciating macabre art, this is the place for you.

The fright factor of these Los Angeles Halloween art galleries, museum exhibitions, and cemetery tours varies widely. Museums use the season to generate interest in customs related to Halloween and beliefs in the afterlife. Cemetery tours tend to be educational in nature, emphasizing history rather than horror. Art galleries may be eerie but seldom frightful, and outdoor art shows of lighted pumpkins can be outright festive.

On this page, you will find:

  • Updates: the latest news about Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours
  • Best Museums, Galleries & Tours: our recommendations
  • Alphabetical List: established Halloween exhibitions and excursions that return on an annual basis. These link to pages dedicated to events, containing video, photos, and reviews too unwieldy to squeeze onto this page.
  • Year-Round Venues: Museums and Galleries that exhibit horror-themed art year round, making them especially appropriate during the Halloween season.
    One-Shots and Recent Additions: Information on interesting Halloween displays and tours that have yet to establish themselves as perennials.

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Los Angeles Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours: Updates

Get the latest news about Halloween Art Displays and Tours:

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Best Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours

Here are the Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours we recommend. Included are returning events with an established reputation and new ones we have reviewed..

Haunted Haddonfield

Halloween 2024: For its 10th annual Halloween exhibit, Nostalgic Nights in Haddonfield, SugarMynt merges its Halloween movie tribute with a joint show dedicated to the spirit of past Halloween’s past. Dates: August 31 through October 31. Hours: Wednesdays 12-5pm, Fridays & Saturdays 12-8pm, Sundays 12-5pm. Closed Mondays & Tuesdays. Opening ...

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Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours: Alphabetical List

The Museum Exhibitions, Art Galleries & Haunted Tours listed here are predominantly ones that return every Halloween.

Boney Island

2024 Status: Boney Island returns to the National History Museum of Los Angeles, where it presents a haunting show for the entire family. The NHM augments the presentation with artistic performances, fossils, live animal presentations, ...

Haunted Haddonfield

Halloween 2024: For its 10th annual Halloween exhibit, Nostalgic Nights in Haddonfield, SugarMynt merges its Halloween movie tribute with a joint show dedicated to the spirit of past Halloween’s past. Dates: August 31 through October ...

Haunted Walking Ghost Tours Fullerton

Halloween 2024: The Haunted Walking Ghost Tours of Fullerton are back. The event was on hiatus last year. Dates & Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays in October, 6pm nightly. Tickets: $30 - $50 (discounts for Fullerton ...
Heritage Square Museum Witch! 2022

Heritage Square Museum Halloween Activities

2024 Dates & Hours: As of September, there was no listing for the museum's annual Halloween tours, but there were other seasonal events. Booze, Bites & Frights: Outdoor film screenings on October 11-12 and 18-19. Get ...

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour

Halloween 2024: The Art Deco Society of Los Angeles presents its 41st Annual Hollywood Forever Cemetery Walking Tour. Hear performers and historians tell intriguing tales of over twenty legendary stars, movie moguls, and pioneers interred ...
Icons of Darkness Exhibition

Icons of Darkness Exhibition

2024 Update: Icons of Darkness has ended its run in Hollywood. On June 11, a Facebook post announced that the collection would move to a larger venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Exact location and ...
Long Beach Historical Cemetery Tour 2014: Rhea

Long Beach Historical Cemetery Tour

2024 Date & Hours: Saturday, October 26, 8:30am-3pm. Tours take three hours to complete, with the last presentations beginning at 2:40pm. Tickets (presale): $25 for non-members, $22.50 presale price for members, $8 for ages 5-18 ...

Monsters, Mummies & Mayhem

Halloween 2024: For the first time since reopening after the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Hollywood Museum is listing dates for its annual Monsters, Mummies & Mayhem Halloween event (basically the museum's Dungeon of Doom rebranded for ...

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Los Angeles Halloween Museums, Galleries & Tours: Year-Round Events

Year-round Los Angeles museums and galleries such the Dungeon of Doom in the Hollywood Museum and SugarMynt Gallery (listed above) offer special presentations for Halloween. Also of interest is the Chamber of Horrors in the Hollywood Wax Museum.

Hollywood Wax Museum

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Los Angeles Halloween Art, Exhibits & Tours Not (Yet) On Our Permanent List

Below are any Halloween Museum Exhibitions, Art Galleries & Haunted Tours that have yet to be added to our list above. Any that become established perennials will find a place among our permanent listings.

Halloween Tour
Grier Musser Museum
403 S Bonnie Brae Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
(213) 413-1814
Website: griermussermuseum.org

The Grier Musser Museum decks out the museum’s 1898 Queen Anne Victorian house with historical Halloween decorations during October. Tours take place on the last Sunday before Halloween at 1pm & 2:30pm. Halloween memorabilia remains on display through October 31.