The Surnateum, a museum of supernatural History, is now open for visits (max 2 persons) and shows (max 6 people) in Brussels.
The Surnateum is at the same time: a real cabinet of curiosites, a theatre for close-up bizarre performances and the place where I live.
The collection should at first glance looks like a "traditional" cabinet of curiosities, so I respected some "codes". Displaying fossils, butterflies, nautilus, strange creatures (mermaids and jenny hanivers...) and so on.
Little by little the guest will discover that it is far more than just a simple display of oddities, but a real collection of extraordinary objects.
He will never notice that's a theatre, so he will easily enter into my stories. Everything's set for various shows and falls naturally into my hands.
The most important of all the rules is that I won't display anything common or lower than "museum quality level", especially because my audience is filled with collectors, antiquarians, scholars and people who know a lot about various subjects.
The cabinet is also a cabinet of fairy tales with a lot of visual references to Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, the Grimm Brothers and so on (remember that famous third degree in "Mary Ann" ?).
The Surnateum is also ready for private parties and featrures exhibition shows based on various themes:
- The XVIIIth century Vampyre Hysteria (+ Dhampyre Mentalism)
- Rhesus: a case of Vampyre Hunting in 1899
- 100 years of Spirit and Ghost hunting (Strange artefacts and Ghost stories)
- the Cabinet of Curiosities (a partchwork of bizarre effects and stories around the Surnateum)
- Sea and Travel Curses: from the Flying Dutchman to the curse of the Andelana.
- Tarot de Marseille, another History: an evening about Divination.
- the Magic Box
- Prodigies: History of the Sensitives, from the shaman to the X-Men...
- the Reformed Gambler: A most incredible demonstration of Gambling skills.
- Delirium Magicum, a simple but very effective close-up show.
http://www.surnateum.com and http://www.surnateum.org
The Surnateum is also available for lectures and seminars about magic (from cardmagic to bizarre magic)
