The Living Dead

Inspired by the classic and genre-​creating «Night of the Living Dead» and located in the town where the movie was filmed, the Living Dead Museum is an homage as much to the modern zombie fandom phenomenon as the original movie. Admission was $ 4 and it was worth about that much: It’s small and it won’t take very long to get through the whole museum (so you’ll have plenty of time to head over to the cemetery just a few blocks away). Many of the exhibits are just photographs, although you’ll also find set props, wardrobes, and other paraphernalia from zombie movies. The timeline of the genre was especially interesting. Interpretation (e.g. signs to read) was pretty minimal too. Photography was allowed, which is great.
For dead-​heads, monster movie fans, and even those still living, this is a great stop if you can make the drive to this tiny little town. The gift shop was pretty impressive, lots of great zombie related shirts, books, and other stuff. Clearly, this museum was founded by a person (or people) who really dig the genre and want to share that love with everyone else. Not sure if I’d recommend it for young children (y’know, death, blood, gore, that sort of thing) but that should be obvious.

What an awesome place! My boyfriend and had stumbled across this place when we were out of town for a wedding. He fell in love right away!
First of all, it’s a lot more than a museum. When you first walk in, there is a store where they have a ton of zombie t-​shirts, figures, posters and other merchandise. They have tons of unique gifts for the zombie lover in your life– my boyfriend could barely contain himself and bought about three shirts and posters after visiting the first time.
When you walk further into the store, that’s where the museum starts. When we visited a year ago, the museum itself was free, with a suggested donation. This year, the museum was $ 5 a person. We drove to Evans City especially for the museum– for a father’s day date with my family. Although the museum is very small, it’s pretty awesome. They have a documentary playing in a back room, a zombie timeline, and tons of pictures and life size zombie figures. The woman working encouraged us to take pictures and offered to take one of our whole group if we wanted.
This place is awesome and I highly reccomend taking a break from the city to check it out, if you’re a zombie fan! My only reason for giving them 4 stars is that my dad was unable to find any t-​shirts he liked in an XL or XXL. He really liked QUITE a few of them and none of them were his size. He was pretty disappointed that he didn’t walk out with a t-​shirt, but overall we had a great time!

I stopped in here after visiting the Evans City Cemetery. I feel it’s a mandatory stop if you’re planning on visiting the cemetery.
Don’t let the small store front fool you; there’s quite a lot to see here. It’s not some two bit tourist trap trying to scam a couple bucks out of you. Everything from mannequins of key characters, production stills and movie props are along the tour and Kevin will be happy to tell you all about them.
The gift shop portion is well stocked with memorabilia from all things zombie –not just limited to the Romero franchise– and it’s all reasonably priced. So get yourself a laminated Dawn of the Dead movie poster and a matching coffee mug to remember your visit.

After reading that Monroeville Zombies had moved, I looked into where it moved to. Although, yes, Monroeville was a decent enough place to hold this small, but growing museum, Evans City is actually more appropriate. Evans City being where a majority of the scenes for ‘Night of the Living Dead’ were taped. The first of many Romero zombie movies to be made.
It is true that this place appears small from the outside, but there is a ton of stuff jammed into the space. When you first walk in you are greeted by a wide array of merchandise. T-​shirts, action figures, playing cards… you name it, they got it. There is no zombie related movie or show left out here. From the original ‘Night of the Living Dead’ to the ever popular ‘Walking Dead’ television series (that’s right ladies, get your Daryl Dixon t-​shirt here). Something else that they sale here that I found interesting are pieces from the movies. They have pieces of the escalators and other areas from the original ‘Dawn of the Dead’ movie and autographed action figures to choose from. I myself picked up a pretty awesome t-​shirt with the original Monroeville Mall logo on it, of course it was zombified.
The museum part is still pretty basic with a few different changes from Monroeville. More photos of filming with more information to help you understand what you are seeing. Movie posters from different countries for different movies. A chronology of the zombie movie is still in progress along the one wall. The original ‘Maul of Fame’ is hanging in here as well. I was truly impressed with how much zombie is here. They even included a little section for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’ As of now, there is no ‘Walking Dead’ section, they are still working on that.
When I was finished with the exhibit part, I had the chance to speak with the staff member present. She was so enthusiastic about her love of zombies that is was a bit amusing. She was so easy to talk to and answered all of my questions without pause. She informed me that the museum section is not complete yet. The swing doors in the back leads to another area where they are planning to expand. From what I heard, I’m rather excited and plan on making another venture here in the coming year. Teaser: it has to do with the ‘Dawn of the Dead’ mall scenes.
Of course after leaving here it is almost guaranteed that you have to visit the cemetery. Don’t worry if you’ve never been there, or have no idea that it is nearby. The staff inside definitely know which way to point you.

This is a small little museum located on Main Street in the sleepy little borough of Evans City. This little town was the location of the movie «The Night of the Living Dead». They have a few displays including the zombie from the cemetery. One wall has shots from the filming of the movie. Another wall has a time line of the Living Dead and another has a «Maul of Fame» with «bloody» hand prints from everyone who worked on the flick. They have a 6 or 7 seat screening room set up where they continually run a movie showing the makers of the movie today.
The rest of the building is a gift shop. They have a lot of tee shirt, toys, etc. Worth a stop, especially for fans of the movie.