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Bunny Museum celebrates Easter weekend with over 45K hare-raising items on display

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Published March 30, 2024, 5:40 p.m. ET

It’s a museum with a little something for every bunny.

This Easter weekend, hundreds are expected to visit California’s Bunny Museum, which features more than 45,000 hare-raising items on display.

The self-appointed “Hoppiest Place on Earth” is in Altadena, about 5 miles north of Pasadena, and was opened in 1998 by married couple Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski.

The 7,000-square-foot, two-storied museum is devoted to everything rabbit-related, and features bunny-themed art pieces, antiques, pop culture relics, toys, and jewelry.

Outside The Bunny Museum in Altadena, California, are several rabbit-shaped sculptures and murals, and stencils of hopping bunnies on the sidewalk lead to the entrance.
The Bunny Museum boasts tons of rabbit-inspired art. Facebook/TheBunnyMuseum
A cabinet crowded with with hundreds of rabbit trinkets stands inside the museum.
There are thousands of collectibles — and a cat — at the museum. Facebook/TheBunnyMuseum

“The Bunny Museum received its third Guinness World Record in 2023. Previous awards were in 2011 and 1999,” Frazee told SFGATE. “Those years were each a Year of the Bunny. We did that on purpose and plan to continue updating the record count every 12 years.”

In addition to live rabbits guests can pet, there are wooden eggs used in past White House Easter Egg rolls, as well as nine original Rose Parade float bunnies.

A collection of dust bunnies is also on display at the museum, which features installations devoted to Peter Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, and the Energizer Bunny. One exhibit even features an actual rabbit hole visitors can peer into.

The exterior welcome sign at the Bunny Museum includes the prices for admission: $12 for adults and $8 for children.
The Bunny Museum is open seven days a week. Facebook/TheBunnyMuseum
The exterior of the Bunny Museum shows stenciled bunnies hopping up the side of the building.
The Bunny Museum has been open since 1998. Facebook/TheBunnyMuseum

Some of the most recent additions to the museum’s collection are items related to hitmaking Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny.

But it’s not all cute and fuzzy.

For visitors 13 and over, there’s the Chamber of Hop Horrors and an exhibit chronicling the cruel treatment rabbits have endured over the years, from being used to test beauty products to having their amputated feet used as good luck charms.