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3.0 of 5 stars.
Three stars for being rooted in such history. Even after reading some less than enthusiastic reviews of this museum, I felt compelled to visit. I am glad that we did, ONCE. Would I go back?...
yelp.com - user review - 10/04/2009
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4.0 of 5 stars.
If you are in Salem... you really should stop in this place. For a few (~$8) bucks you get to see how the witch-hunt started. It's good for kids, first timers, the handicap, and an hour of your time....
yelp.com - user review - 09/08/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
I was warned that the Salem Witch Museum was cheesy, but it was definitely not what I was expecting. Everyone was directed into a dark room with benches around the perimeter and life-sized dioramas...
yelp.com - user review - 07/24/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Disney World's Hall of Presidents.In the round.During a power outage.Running on Energizers.With a wooly Satan stolen from a shitty carnival haunted house.Voiced-over by a guy who saw a picture of...
yelp.com - user review - 07/18/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO... STAY AWAY FROM HEREThere is barely ANY museum in this gigantic gift shop. There are no artifacts on display of the 1692 time period, absolutely nothing! Just some pictures on a...
yelp.com - user review - 06/12/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Worst. Museum. E-V-E-R!!!On my trip back east, this was the lowest point. Taken in by the beautiful (converted) church building and the low ticket price, we handed our couple of bucks to the cashier,...
yelp.com - user review - 05/13/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I gave my niece the choice of coming here or going to the Aquarium to kill time on a rainy day, and much to my chagrin, she chose this place. She's 11 and she L-O-V-E-D it...I was kind nodding off...
yelp.com - user review - 04/09/2009
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3.0 of 5 stars.
The building of the museum is more impressing that the actual musuem itself.You basically sit in a dark room as a story of the witch hunt is told,and dioramas are lit up.The story is very good and...
yelp.com - user review - 04/07/2009
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1.0 of 5 stars.
In a word....LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME...why oh why did I not listen to Matt L's review?! *sigh* His review is spot on except for the price as my friend visiting from Germany and...
yelp.com - user review - 04/05/2009
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Went in to this attraction with a different expectation. It puts you into a large room surrounded by various sections that light up on very old statues (some with peeling paint on their skin) and...
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2009
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5.0 of 5 stars.
Wow, people, put down the Haterade on the Salem Witch Museum already! The Salem Witch Museum is a great place to get an overview on the Salem Witch Trials. I would definitely take someone who wanted...
yelp.com - user review - 10/28/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
This place is a total tourist trap. I had last visited it as a small child, so I forgot how lame it was. My boyfriend, who is from the Southwest, dragged my family to Salem to see the kitschy/witchy...
yelp.com - user review - 10/28/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Ok, so I was raised in Salem. I am used to Halloween with its constant tourists. I am used to the crappy weekend traffic. I still don't know what is so fascinating about this place that makes people...
yelp.com - user review - 10/24/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Going to Salem for Halloween, must be a lot like going to the North Pole for Christmas. I have been to Salem, Ma. several times, since I lived on the South Shore of Boston for 8 wonderful years. On a...
yelp.com - user review - 10/23/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
At this museum, you are taken into a large dark room with everyone on the tour. The presentation is about 30 mins. long and tells the complete story, covering the most important details of the Salem...
yelp.com - user review - 08/08/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Salem residents get in to this trashytastic tourist trap for FREE! I went 7 times with various out of town guests and enjoyed it each and every time.This place is not a museum per say, it is more of a...
yelp.com - user review - 08/01/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
They say you get what you pay for...and in this case it is the truth. I definitely wouldn't consider this a museum in any sense, more of a comedic and half-*ss interpretation of history. It is...
yelp.com - user review - 07/05/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Wha huh?Museum? (eek) Methinks not. Tourist trap? Indeed.Had this been called "Salem Witch Dioramas" or "Salem Creepy Voice-Over Mannequins" I think I would have had a better time. But to wait in...
yelp.com - user review - 07/03/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Only the finest disappointment, carefully crafted to bring down or enrage everyone except the elite few who have always dreamt of paying cash to stand in a dark room looking at crude handmade...
yelp.com - user review - 04/30/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Not at all what I was expecting from a "witch museum", but then again, I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting. Whatever the case, a giant room full of larger than life figures, spotlighting, and a...
yelp.com - user review - 04/28/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
TOURIST TRAP ALERT!!!! This was the biggest waste of $8. You sit in the dark listening to some supposedly scary-sounding voiceover summarize The Crucible in about 5 minutes while you look at wax...
yelp.com - user review - 04/27/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
This place needs heavy renovating and modernizing but it's authentic, cheesy and quite funny and although it could easily be mistaken for a tourist trap, I still think that it's a pretty decent...
yelp.com - user review - 04/14/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
I don't know that I'd call this place a museum. To me, museums involve actual pieces of historic significance usually in cases with little blurbs about what they are, why you should care, and who you...
yelp.com - user review - 02/09/2008
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1.0 of 5 stars.
I don't get this place. When me and my BF decided to come here, I did NOT think it would be like this. My neck and back were both hurting by the time this thing was over because 1) the seats are...
yelp.com - user review - 01/11/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Sometimes Yelpers take things to seriously. This place is just so hokey it's adorable. Maybe part of that has to do with the fact that I was in the 8th grade when I first visited, but if you kind of...
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2008
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Mooooorrrree Weeeiiiiggghhhhttt!I freakin love this place. I've gone 4, 5 times now? Once as a little kid and even then I thought it was hysterical. Now, my friends and I have an annual pilgrimage...
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2008
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2.0 of 5 stars.
I like this enough. But it isn't my fave place to bring my out of town guests. It is an akward set up seating wise. You have to twist and turn to see half of the "show" no matter where you sit. The...
yelp.com - user review - 01/06/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
I thought this museum was fun! I know, I agree with the other Yelpers about how cheesy this place is. It is like a wax museum for witches and the decor is down right funny. It reminded me of a...
yelp.com - user review - 12/27/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Perhaps I shouldn't have had drinks with my lunch, but I ended up falling asleep during the first part of the tour. You sit in this big room, they dim the lights, and then you have to stare at...
yelp.com - user review - 11/12/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
My first time to Salem, MA. We got a late start from Portsmouth, NH, while visiting my friends. We did a trolley tour, then only had enough time to go to this museum. I liked the show, the history....
yelp.com - user review - 11/06/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
If you are into cheesy, dusty old wax dummys and a poor immatation of Charlton Heston's voice on a scratchy record (or was it Orson Welles?), highlighted by a goofey light show... then this place is...
yelp.com - user review - 10/17/2007
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4.0 of 5 stars.
A general comment to folks who felt the show was sub-par entertainment... Walt Disney World is 1,337 miles behind you. You totally missed the turn off. Please go back. I've heard loud and clear how...
yelp.com - user review - 06/14/2007
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2.0 of 5 stars.
Considered an elemetary school field trip "rite of passage", the SWM is beyond hokie. Its ok for some kids, but younger ones will be frightened. The lines outside of this place are humongous during...
yelp.com - user review - 02/28/2007
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3.0 of 5 stars.
Really should be a 2.5 but I'm feeling generous.Although some of the info presented was interesting, the "show" is a bit lame. Better for children than adults - although young children will be scared...
yelp.com - user review - 01/22/2007
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Avoid, avoid, avoid. Now together repeat after me. Avoid.
yelp.com - user review - 01/08/2007
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The Salem WItch museum tells visitors the story of the Salem witch trials of the 1600's through wax figures and recorded narration. The first part of the museum is a round-shaped audotourium with the ...
judysbook.com - user review - 12/02/2006
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Kinda like the whole town of Salem...(at least the touristy parts) still reeking a profit from the witch trials 300 yrs ago. incredibly hokey, waste of time and money. for history, go see plymouth...
yelp.com - user review - 07/31/2006
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2.0 of 5 stars.
"Witch! Witch!" Whatever it costs...SAVE your money. Your TIME is worth more than that! Okay...unless you have kids...cause they might like it. The musuem is somewhat interesting...but, we...
yelp.com - user review - 07/30/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
I have to give them credit for trying to make witches and the history of Salem more interesting than playing to witch stereotypes. The admission is inexpensive and you are treated to a two-part tour....
yelp.com - user review - 05/24/2006
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Amusing and worth a visit.
yelp.com - user review - 03/09/2006
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I wasn't to impressed with this museum. First of all it doesn't seem much like a museum but picutre show. You walk in and stand in the middle of the room. All side the left, right, and front of you are like...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/03/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
Everything to creep you out about witches in general. My namesake, Joan of Arc, is mentioned here. Hmmmmm. No, neither of us is a witch. I'm sure. The museum centers around the witch trials &...
yelp.com - user review - 10/24/2005
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The Salem witch museum is a great place to learn about the history of the witches that once were in Salem, MA. The museum offers tours with tour guides that tell you the story of the Salem witches,very...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/17/2005
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Anyone who live in, near Salem or is lucky enough to visit there will know how much fun it can be to visit the museums and shops. This is always a big tourist attraction for visitors, it really teaches you...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/08/2005
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3.0 of 5 stars.
The museum is impressive from the outside, and looks like a scary castle. They have lots of interesting facts you can read about the witch trials in the waiting area. And once you are inside the...
yelp.com - user review - 08/12/2005
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4.0 of 5 stars.
The Salem Witch Museum is Salem's most visited museum! Prices are $6.50 adult, $6.00 Seniors, and children 6-14 yrs $4.50. The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are...
yelp.com - user review - 07/28/2005
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