I posed the ghoulish museum question on ARCANA, the academic discussion
list for the occult; there were not many responses, alas, but I forward
what has come in:
 
     A "very impressive museum of witchcraft" in Gatlinburg, Tennessee [not
     verified, at least in the 1985 OMD, which is the latest I have],
     possibly based on Gerald Gardner's collection from the Isle of Man
 
     Anne Rice's house in New Orleans, open for tours, and probably
     containing vampire-related material
 
     A torture museum in Rothenbrug ob der Tauber.
 
It surprises me there are so few (generally known) musea dealing with the
occult in its various manifestations.  I myself can attest only to the
display of various defixiones (cursing tablets) at the bath museum in Bath,
England.  As for prison / torture musea, is the Gevangenpoort (Prisoner's
Gate) museum in The Hague still open?  I was quite upset when I discovered
they'd lost the smaller of the two gates when the street widened some years
back.
 
Mario Rups (trying very hard to ignore postings re: Hungarian Ghoulish and
     veddy reshpectawiggle NASM people)
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