{"id":1226,"date":"2012-02-20T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/new-york-city-s-smallest-silliest-museum\/"},"modified":"2021-08-02T03:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:53:44","slug":"new-york-city-s-smallest-silliest-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/new-york-city-s-smallest-silliest-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Smallest, Silliest Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/new-york-city-nyc-new-york-deals\">New York City<\/a> is home to a number of world-class museums. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Guggenheim, the Big Apple servfes up enough art and culture to keep aficionados occupied for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But as any resident will tell you, the city is also home to plenty of oddities. Bruce Christensen\u2019s <strong>Beetlejuice Museum<\/strong> falls somewhere between the two.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crammed into Christensen\u2019s Hell\u2019s Kitchen Apartment, the museum is a thorough and well-organized shrine to the 1988 cult movie classic starring Michael Keaton and Geena Davis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christensen, who gives guided tours of the museum in full Beetlejuice garb, has amassed quite the collection over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/call-beetlejuice-fan-times-article-1.1025496?localLinksEnabled=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report in the New York Daily News<\/a>, the 75-piece collection consists of everything from plastic toys to Beetljuice themed wine coolers. The meek museum has welcomed over 200 guests since first opening in late 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is home to a number of world-class museums. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Guggenheim, the Big Apple servfes up enough art and culture to keep aficionados occupied for weeks. &nbsp; But as any resident will tell you, the city is also home to plenty of oddities. Bruce Christensen\u2019s Beetlejuice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98908179,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/98908179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}