Welcome to the Killville Historical Museum of the Strange. Established in 1894 by Dr. Maurice A. Dalton upon his return from the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. He realized that people would pay to see anything and he wanted a piece of the action. Killville Massachusetts and the surrounding area supplied him with all the freaks of flora and fauna that he needed and the museum opened to great fanfare in the fall of 1894 attracting thousands of visitors from around the world.

But by 1908 the museum had fallen on hard times. The good doctors affinity for the ponies, the bourbon and the ladies depleted his fortunes and the Killville Museum of the Strange closed it's doors in October of that year. The property was seized by the Commonwealth for back taxes and much of the collection was either sold at auction or donated to local universities. Dalton spent the rest of his days mostly drunk and died under mysterious circumstances in 1923.

In 1983 the Killville Historical Society embarked on the monumental task of retrieving what they could of the museum's collection and reopened the museum on it's one hundredth anniversary. In 2002 a suspicious fire ravaged the old Manhan Rendering Facility where the museum had found a home and much of the collection was lost.

After four years in limbo the museum has finally found a new home. It will soon be reopening as part of "Angry Johnny's Creepy Little Gallery" in nearby Easthampton Massachusetts. Many of the specimens have been painstakingly restored by our team of experts and new oddities continue to be found.

Please forgive the mess. The on-line museum is still under construction, there's still lots of hammerin', screwin' and drinkin' to do.

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