O.J. Simpson Will Get New Museum In L.A., Let The Owners Explain…

Posted On : August 2, 2017

O.J. Simpson is not only about to be released from Lovelock Correctional Center in Las Vegas, NV come October 2017, but he’s about to be immortalized with a museum of his own…temporarily speaking.

Just as there will probably be many publishing companies, T-Shirt makers, and TV stations ready and willing to capitalize of off O.J. once “The Juice” gets loose, an Los Angeles museum and one creative entrepreneur is already doing so. Here’s what NYPost has just revealed:

“The OJ Simpson Museum” exhibit will run from Aug. 18 to 22 at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery in Chinatown, featuring a treasure trove of artifacts connected to the 70-year-old’s infamous 1995 murder case. “The museum is about the phenomenon associated with [Simpson], not about him,” museum’s curator Adam Papagan said, according to Mashable.

Papagan said that had it not been for his acquittal in the brutal killings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her pal Ron Goldman, he’d be “just another washed-up football player.” The museum will include a white 1994 Ford Bronco, the same kind that Al “A.C.” Cowlings drove with O.J. in the back seat as he led police on a slow-speed chase watched by 95 million TV viewers.

By the way, the museum’s curator, Adam Papagan, has apparently been able to raise enough funding for the pop-up museum (and an O.J. tour) through an online crowdfunding source:

Papagan refers to O.J.’s 1995 murder trial acquittal as not only the “trial of the century” (as it’s largely known), but as a “pop culture phenomenon.” Papagan stated that “It was a historical event — something that we all lived through. […] The trial has been excessively documented by the media, but we only have the trial’s perspective. I wanted to tell the people’s version of the story.”

And just in case the pop-up O.J. museum isn’t enough to peak your interest, no worries. There will also be several pieces of O.J. memorabilia available at the museum:

Via NYPost: In addition, the exhibit will include souvenirs, sports memorabilia, a collection of bootleg Simpson T-shirts and Juice-inspired art.

It wasn’t really clear as to whether or not O.J. will actually make any profits from the pop-up museum, but if he does, Ron Goldman’s family has already made it clear that they will be right there ready to collect every dime of it as part of the $33 million civil judgement he still owes them.

ILOSM fam,’ do you think the O.J. pop-up museum will be a success or no?

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