Psychic Museums

A museum was founded in 1925 by veteran Spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (1859-1930) and located at 2 Victoria Street, London, S.W. The museum housed an interesting collection of apports, automatic scripts, automatic and direct sketches and paintings, paraffin molds, photographs and other psychic objects. Unfortunately, at a later date, the museum was closed and its collection was dispersed. A number of the items have been lost or destroyed.

Some archives of the British College of Psychic Science were also dispersed, but items from the Institute for Psychic Research (of which Nandor Fodor was Research Officer) were absorbed by the Society for Psychical Research, London. The Harry Price archives are still kept at University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, W.C.I., England.

There are probably many psychic collections in existence in various corners of the world. T. W. Stanford, a Melbourne millionaire, collected all the apports of the controversial medium Charles Bailey and donated them to the Psychical Research Department of Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. In Budapest (I. Mészáros u.2.) Dr. Chengery Pap established a museum of the objects apported through the mediumship of Lajos Pap. There was an Other World Museum in Rome, Lungo-Tevere Prati 12, founded by Father V. Jouet, containing many rare objects and documents bearing upon different manifestations of the departed.

In Virginia, the Association for Research and Enlightenment has preserved for study 15,000 transcripts of the psychic readings of Edgar Cayce.

The most recent psychic museum is the Britten Memorial Museum on the grounds of the Arthur Findlay College (of the Spiritualists National Union ) in Essex, England.