3800 Homer Street
Los Angeles, California 90031

experience Halloween in a whole new light at Heritage Square Museum’s Seventh Annual Halloween and Mourning Tours. Set among the museum’s Victorian-era houses, visitors will find themselves immersed in the very different traditions surrounding death and mourning as they were practiced 100 years ago.
This living history program puts you in the middle of a superstitious Victorian-era society where death was never far behind. Witness a funeral procession as they bury a loved one, visit a fortune teller, learn about hair jewelry and mourning attire and even join two men in arguing the merits of spirit photography!
Activities abound at this one-of-a-kind event. Learn all about death and mourning etiquette during the Victorian era, participate in a funeral inside one of our historic homes and witness a procession of mourners, as they bury a loved one. Find out about the movement of Spiritualism; what it was, who followed it and why, and perhaps have your future foretold by a fortune teller. See how other cultures celebrate and remember their loved ones as we look at Chinese and Japanese Ttraditions during the period. Discover how even the intricate details of clothing played a role in how Victorians showed their loss of a loved one. Finally, meet designer and author Mark Wood to learn how to make authentic Victorian-era Halloween decorations
On Sunday, (Oct 24), in partnership with the International Community for Paranormal Investigation and Research (ICPIR), the results of the first paranormal investigation of the historic structures at Heritage Square will be released. Whether it is the nature of the Victorian architecture, the historic furnishings and paintings on display or something all-together different, “ghost sightings” have occurred at the museum since its inception. On October 24th, those “sightings” will be denied…or confirmed!
On Sunday, (Oct 24), the Halloween and Mourning Tours program is more family friendly. Children ages 2 to 12 may come in costume, play period games, make 19th century harvest crafts, choose a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch (while supplies last), and listen to spooky stories in the Ford House by the San Gabriel Valley Storytellers.

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Added by briansheridan20 on October 8, 2010