| Halloween Horror Nights Orlando attraction | |
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| The Museum: Deadly Exhibits | |
| Attraction type | Haunted House |
| Event | Halloween Horror Nights 33 |
| Park | Universal Studios Florida |
| Area | Springfield U.S.A |
| Year | 2024 |
| Housed in | Sprung Tent 1 |
| Based on | Original |
The Museum: Deadly Exhibits was one of the ten haunted houses that was featured during Halloween Horror Nights 33. It was located in Sprung Tent 1.
History and Location[]
On May 22, Universal announced The Museum: Deadly Exhibits as the next original haunted house featured during Halloween Horror Nights 33. The house would be based on a folklore museum that has been taken over by an unknown evil entity.
The house would be located in Sprung Tent 1.
In 2006, Universal built two hurricane-proof tents behind the World Expo area of the park specifically for holding Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses. This house would be located in the southernmost one (called Sprung Tent 1).
The codename for this haunted house was Baklava.
Description[]
This Relic Will Leave You in Ruins.
You decide to visit the new folklore museum exhibit, The Rotting Stone, when an evil escapes from within, destroying everything in its path.
Backstory[]
The Museum of International Folklore are preparing to set up for their latest exhibit The Rotting Stone, but many of the employees of the museum soon begin to realize that the artifact corrupts and possesses inanimate objects wreaks havoc across the museum and its other exhibits.
Settings[]
Experience[]
Queue and Facade[]
The facade was a museum made out of bricks with a glass window atop a portrait on the right side of guests seen on the wall is a sign presenting the museum's latest exhibit addition, The Rotting Stone, with a moving truck outside on the left of the building and the glowing crate that is to be The Rotting Stone.
Haunted House[]
Guests enter the haunted house and turn left as guests are lunged at by a security guard on their left warning them that the museum is cursed and what it has done to his hand as they make a right into the next room.
Guests enter the Museum' lobby, where on their right, a crazed museum employee tells guests that the desk is possessed, guests walk past a monster seeping out of the table as on their left the body of a recently dead employee could be seen sitting down and above them, a museum antique is rotting through the ceiling as they make a right passing glowing rotting spots on the wall into the next room.
Guests then enter a hall where a dead female employee can be seen lying down on their left and on, their right stone statues decaying with holes in them, they continue as they are lunged at a rotting stature that has come to life as they continue forward they're lunged again on their right by another museum mannequin before making into the next room on their left.
As guests enter the next room they're lunged at by one of the museum employees who has been injured and yelling at them to get out of the museum.
Guests then continue forward into the Shades of the Mire Gallery where they pass by rotting walls and a museum piece of masks glowing and moving while hearing evil laughter, they pass by a headless statue holding its head and another museum piece of masks glowing moving serving as a distraction as on their left guests are lunged at by a cloaked figure donning the glowing mask.
Guests enter the next hall lighting flashes revealing ahead standing bodies of museum workers bodies that can be seen holding their heads in their hands simulating the headless statue from the previous hallway as guests turn they're lunged at by a security guard on their right told guests that they've been captured by the Stones' power.
Guests continue forward passing by a close exhibit that reads"Europe" and enter the Faces In The Fog exhibit where they are on a ship vessel as they continue forward passing by antiques as treasure, they're lunged at by a passed a pasted white threat on their right, they continue forward where the body of a dead museum worker can be seen sliced as they're lunged at by a Waxed Viking that threatens guests to show it their throats before trying to attack them with its axe, guests then exit the room on their left.
Guests then enter the Goblin's Boil exhibit where they've entered a makeshift village and on their left and right are antique dolls, the walls fade to reveal settings in each of them, and on their right, guests can see a goblin relaxing until being disturbed and pops out at the end on their right as they continue forward, guests are lunged at by a security on the left before walking past one more exhibit setting revealing a headless body and guts in a bowl as they make their way out of the room.
Guests then enter the Halls of Mourning exhibit, lighting strikes from time to time revealing the room is as an odd reddish blueish color paint pattern, they are lunged at by a wallpaper monster as they make their right they continue forward as they are attacked on their right again by another and exit the room.
Guests then enter a hall of ancient wall hangings before making a left to enter another room where The Rotting Stone relies on continuously glowing and rotting its surroundings, as guests make a left into the room on their right a Rotting Stone monster pops out from behind the statue lunges at guests as on their right on the floor a recently rotten victim can be seen.
Guests then enter the next room where they pass more rotting and into a room with two paintings as they make a right and continue they're lunged at one last by a Rotting Stone monster on their right and exit the house.
Quotes[]
- "The Rotting Stone of Western Europe has hundred of years of *Narration cuts off*
- The Rotting Stone has had the center of horrific stories after centuries, it is believed to be the cause of failed crops and plagues. It's reputation grew when it would --- *Narration cuts off*
- Over a course of 200 years and continued to be blamed for disease and famine. In the Fall of 2024 --- *Narration cuts out* - Museum Narration
- "It's Possessed!" - Museum Employee
- “I’ll rip your flesh” - Possessed Desk
- "Ahh it has me!" - Museum Employee
- ”Give Me Your Breath…” - Possessed Sail
- "Show me your throat!” - Wax Viking
Scareactors[]
- Wallpaper Creatures x 2
- The Rotting Stone Monsters
- Possessed Desk
- Decayed Statue
- Wax Viking
- Possessed Sail
- Museum Employees x 4
- Museum Security Guards x 3
- Net Fisherman
- Sea Monsters x 2
- Possessed Mask
- Goblin
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Trivia[]
- Each house would have a dessert hidden in the house based on their code names. The Baklava dessert could be found in the first room on a table.
- This years' easter egg alongside the desserts are Snails, the snail in this house could be found sitting on a large rock in a patch of snow inside the Goblin Boil exhibit.
- Mama Bear from the Goldilocks and Three Bears scene in the Scary Tales: Once Upon a Nightmare haunted house from Halloween Horror Nights: Reflections of Fear can be seen as one of the museums’ displays.
- Some props in this house are reused from the Vikings Undead scarezone from Halloween Horror Nights 29.
- The Rotting Stone grows like a plague. its effects on the museum seem to show “rot” growing on the walls of each exhibit as guests traverse deeper into the museum.
- The Museums' audio guide throughout the house serves as narration, however as you progress deeper into the house, the more distorted and corrupt the narrator becomes.
- The exhibits in the Museum of International Folk are as seen in order:
- Ancient Deathlore
- Sea Monsters of Folklore
- Fragments of The Ancestors
- Europe - Coming In 2025
- Face In The Fog
- Goblin Boil
- Halls of Mourning
- The Rotting Stone - Fall 2024
- A Pamphlet on the lobby information desk reads Humanities Stories of Death Folklore:
"While it is difficult to define "folklore". MIF believe: there is a kind of shared familiarity across cultures when hearing the stories that help shape them.
We invite you, to take a journey with us through just a few of the oddly familiar stories of humanity's folkloric traditions.
- Gallery A: Humanity's Stories of Death exhibits Ancient Mesopotamia (4500 BCE - 1500 BCE) description reads: Ancient Mesopotamia was full of folklore explaining death and disease. These ancient tapestries reveal the powerful force that folklore has been shaping human behaviors. Art, such as these artifacts, can be positioned as both the expression of humanities stories and the origins of the stories that continue to be told.
- Passing by the the Ancient Death Lore sign, two statues showing signs of holes appearing on their chest, arms and neck which could be reference to Trypophobia, an aversion or repulsion to objects like honeycombs and sponges that have repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes. A theme that was used in the Bugs: Eaten Alive (Haunted House) from Halloween Horror Nights 31.
- A female statue that had appeared in many past Halloween Horror Nights haunted houses most notably the statue outside The Caine Mansion & Furneral Home from Screamhouse: The Resurrection reappears in this house.
- Gallery C: Shades of the Mire exhibit description reads: Spirits in the Wilds' are one of the many examples of humans exploring their relationship with nature. Seeing nature as both a giver and a taker has been explored across cultures and across time. While various cultures have positioned themselves at various orientations with the unknown forces in our world, they all share in the ability to see themselves as one of those forces.
- Gallery E: Face In The Fog: The Viking Age (793 CE - 1066 CE) description reads: "northern Oceans off the coast of Europe are treacherous, especially when elements such as fog inhibited traditional navigation methods. During decades of research, examples have been found in such abundance, that researchers have left many of the findings undisturbed in order to preserve further loss."
- Gallery G: Halls of Mourning Exhibit description reads: While much of Folklore is an exploration of experiences and trails in life, other stories explore far beyond that. The idea of communicating with the dead has long been an idea that is explored and promoted through folklore. The Halls of Mourning were a place that was meant to give sanctuary to those lost spirits still willing to communicate.
- The rot is magical in origin, which is why it presents in glowing blues and reds instead of organic tones.
- The folklore included in the house is all fictional — no historical mythology has been represented, though influences were drawn from stories around the world.
- The buildings have false fronts, made using scrim, that will showcase humans being cooked for a goblin feast when lit from behind. This section is a nod to another house that year Goblin’s Feast.
- In a recurring theme this year (at least from the houses we already toured), there is no clear resolution to this house. Nobody stops the Rotting Stone. In fact, we witness an escalation at the end, and the implication is that it will continue to curse and rot in the future.
| Halloween Horror Nights 33 |
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| Characters: SINIST3R • SURR3AL • Major Sweets • Taffy • Muerte • La Lechuza • Tlahuelpuchi • El Silbón • The Barmy Triplets • Death Angels • Garraka • Slimer • Lipstick Face Demon • The Bride of Frankenstein • Dracula’s Daughter • Saskia Van Helsing • Anck-Su-Namun • She-Wolf of London • Batilda |
| Haunted Houses: Slaughter Sinema 2 • Goblin’s Feast • Major Sweets Candy Factory • The Museum: Deadly Exhibits • Monstruos: The Monsters of Latin America (Orlando) • Triplets of Terror • A Quiet Place (Orlando 2024) • Ghostbusters Frozen Empire (Orlando) • Insidious: The Further (Orlando) • Universal Monsters: Eternal Bloodlines (Orlando) |
| Scarezones: Duality of Fear • Demon Queens • Swamp of The Undead • Torture Faire • Enter the Blumhouse |
| Show: Halloween Nightmare Fuel: Nocturnal Circus |
| Other Experiences: |