Open till 2:00 AM
Tickets: $10
Contact: (310) 845-9333
info@bgmuseum.com
info@bgmuseum.com
Address: 3764 Watseka Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90034
Bhagavad-gita Diorama-Museum
Halloween Special:
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
You must be our new night-watch. You look like a weirdy...
I'll give you a little tour. This is a diorama:
Here's another:
It gets a little spooky around here at night; so you may wanna keep a few lights on.
But this is the most important thing to remember: "Don't let anything in, or out!"
Everything in this museum comes to life at night. It's freakin' awesome!!
Halloween Special:
GENERAL TOUR
PRIVATE TOUR
About the Museum
The museum consists of eleven stunning life-size dioramas of clay-work dolls in display since 1977.
Reopened in June 2016 after renovation, the Diorama-museum of Bhagavad-gita combines India’s ancient yogic wisdom and sculpture artistry with America’s state-of-the-art multimedia technology.
Mission Statement
We are to propagate spiritual knowledge to society and to educate people in the techniques of spiritual life in order to check the imbalance of values in life and to achieve real unity and peace.
Los Angeles Times
To sonorous narration and ethereal music, about 200 luxuriantly costumed, nearly life-size painted clay figures enact cosmic dramas such as reincarnation, wherein twinkly diode “souls” light up in sequence between figures of an old man, a spooky corpse and a pulsating pink fetus.
LA Weekly
Through eleven dioramas, Krishna flutters about in disguise, at the reins of the senses, on the back of a Garuda — stunningly rendered and ornamented with lightning flashes, dramatic sound effects and a booming-voiced narrator who sounds eerily familiar.
George Harrison
I thought it was great — better than Disneyland, really. I mean, it’s as valuable as that or the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The sculpted dioramas look great, and the music is nice. It shows in a way that’s easy for even a child to understand exactly how the body is different from the soul, and how the soul’s the important thing.