# Clown Murder Museum! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308 "2021-03-06T05:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/1 "2021-03-06T05:21:04Z")
When you saw the title of this thread, what first came to mind? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/1))_ ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/2 "2021-03-06T05:27:33Z")
A murder museum _for_ clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/3 "2021-03-06T05:28:27Z")
John Wayne Gacy. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/4 "2021-03-06T05:33:30Z")
Kinda there in the name, a museum dedicated to people that murder clowns would be a Clown Murderer Museum. Unless, for some reason, they _couldn’t_ use the extra ‘er’. ‘Beep’, ‘beep’ Richie! ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/5 "2021-03-06T05:47:28Z")
Oh, I certainly wouldn’t buy a ticket for that. I would assume it was full of murdered clowns. Now, I wouldn’t mind if they were all dead murdered clowns, but how would I be sure they wouldn’t get up and come after me? Well hell. Even as a kid, I thought clowns were creepy. Thinking about clowns murdering other clowns is going to keep me up tonight. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/6 "2021-03-06T06:02:33Z")
Right. Pretty obvious. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/7 "2021-03-06T06:35:00Z")
When I saw the title to this thread I immediately thought… [![](https://morbotron.com/meme/S07E03/343885.jpg?b64lines=IFNodXQgdXAgYW5kIHRha2UgbXkgbW9uZXkh) ](https://morbotron.com/meme/S07E03/343885.jpg?b64lines=IFNodXQgdXAgYW5kIHRha2UgbXkgbW9uZXkh) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/8 "2021-03-06T10:51:48Z")
People WHO murder clowns, or clowns WHO murder people. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/9 "2021-03-06T13:38:28Z")
Here’s a clown motel…these people appear to be out of costume, though. Maybe that graveyard next door relates to the OP. > **[A Commercialized Nightmare: Nevada's Clown Motel](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/clown-motel)** > > Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/10 "2021-03-06T13:56:51Z")
My first thought was Clown Torture at the Art Institute of Chicago. > **[Clown Torture | The Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146989/clown-torture)** > > Bruce Nauman, 1987 ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/11 "2021-03-06T13:59:23Z")
Yeah. Like a clown car. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/12 "2021-03-06T15:47:56Z")
There are no innocent clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/13 "2021-03-06T15:50:49Z")
It’s a murder museum run by or for clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/14 "2021-03-06T15:55:24Z")
Famed Rococo artist Clown Murder is spinning in his grave. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/15 "2021-03-06T16:10:23Z")
Wait! I’ve got it! Along the same lines as a clown car, a clown museum is a 50 square foot building that 100 clowns will cram themselves into. Then you drop a wrecking ball on the museum and murder them all. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/16 "2021-03-06T16:22:27Z")
I immediately came up with both interpretations and only clicked on the link in hopes of disambiguating. Imagine my disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/17 "2021-03-06T16:44:19Z")
How could there be enough murderous clowns to fill a museum? ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/18 "2021-03-06T16:56:53Z")
I also thought of Gacy. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/19 "2021-03-06T17:26:20Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > How could there be enough murderous clowns to fill a museum? > **[Monster Clown - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MonsterClown)** > > Clowns are supposed to be funny, whimsical and silly. They're supposed to make everyone laugh, especially children. This is the entire point of their existence. A truly good clown is supposed to be a Friend to All Children. Sometimes they succeed … ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308/20 "2021-03-06T19:31:58Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > It’s a murder museum run by or for clowns. It’s a room in the Mime Museum. Dan [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clown-murder-museum/937308.md?page=2)