David Copperfield's Collection
David Copperfield's International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts was established in 1991. The vast collection comprises over 150,000 properties, books, posters and other historical items bearing relation to conjuring, of which 90,000 articles have been displayed. It includes memorabilia of such great magicians as Harry Houdini and Channing Pollack to Chung Ling Soo and Dante. The Museum is situated in a 2,601 m? building in a Nevada desert, USA.
The oldest item in the collection is "Spiritalium Liber" Urbino, a book created by Hero of Alexandria, published in 1575, represents the oldest item in the collection.
Preserving the history of the art of magic for contemporary and next generations by offering a safe, stable home for everything connected to conjuring, has become David’s secret passion. The famous magician has set an ambitious goal to construct a monument to give due to the history of magic as a performing art, an ongoing museum able to surpass the time.
The International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts is composed of the world's most comprehensive collection of historical documents and artifacts concerning or belonging to the world of magic, illusion, and the allied arts. David believes that any magician stands on the shoulders of giants. His museum reflects an expressive proof of the treasury of contributions left by some personalities to this most irresistible and mysterious of all arts.
Copperfield’s priority is not only to appreciate the history of magic, but to maintain the tools of his forerunners, magicians who took part in the evolution of the art of magic. The collection provides researchers with the opportunity to go deep into the history and craft of magic, but stays hidden away from the public and cites another example of Copperfield’s mystery.
The Museum has served as a study and research center for magicians, scholars, and reporters for almost a decade. To everybody’s disappointment, the secrets kept behind its doors make the idea to open it to the general public just impossible.
Some Facts about David Copperfield and his Achievements
David Copperfield (David Seth Kotkin) was born on September 16, 1956 in Metuchen New Jersey in a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia. By the age of 12 he had already started giving professional magic performances and became the youngest person ever accepted to the Society of American Magicians. At 16 years old David was delivering a course in magic at New York University. His most well-known exploits include making the Statue of Liberty disappear, hovering over the Grand Canyon, and walking through the Great Wall of China.
David Copperfield’s Project Magic, one of his best achievements, was founded in 1982. It was created with the assistance of occupational therapist Julie DeJean and has combined the gift of a professional entertainer with talents of occupational therapists to achieve therapeutic effect for clients coming through the rehabilitative process. This specially developed rehabilitation program helps disabled patients recover and strengthen lost or injured dexterity and motor skills by using simple sleight -of -hand magic. The program has been accredited by the American Occupational Therapy Association, and has been implemented in over 30 countries and in more than 1,000 hospitals around the world.
David Copperfield has rewritten the book about the world of magic. He has managed to express the maximum ingenuity and imagination unconceivable for wizards or audiences of the past. The illusions represent the union of thrilling mysteries and entertaining program. The magician mixes mystery and romance into sensual illusions bewitching for the mind and moving for the heart. The man’s nature is the essence of any real magic. This is David Copperfield’s view of what magic is all about.
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