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Gettysburg Dime Museum is permanently closed.

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Gettysburg Dime Museum

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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The Gettysburg Dime Museum is a recreation of a 19th-century dime museum. Loaded with oddities and curiosities, the museum exhibits a mixture of authentic and not-so-authentic artifacts leaving it to the visitor to distinguish between the two. Exhibits include: freaks of nature, true crime, voodoo mysteries, legendary creatures, historical enigmas, wonders of the world, and medical quackery.

Update: This museum closed on November 17, 2018.

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