Linda S. Eaton of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware, which exhibited the Mercer Museum’s vampire slaying kit during its “Treasures on Trial” show, said it’s common for ...

Vampires, beware. The ornate velvet-covered box may look like a treasure chest. But open it, and instead of gems and jewels, you’ll find the ingredients to fight off a bloodsucking ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

The museum was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 along with its concrete companion next door, Fonthill, Mercer’s 44-room mansion and now a museum focusing on his life and work.

As you make your way up through the museum, what you see in the smaller rooms and alcoves are the tools of the blacksmith, the tools of the tinsmith, the tools of pewterer. I say “tools,” but Mercer ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...

Of the weird and intriguing items in the museum (including a vampire killing kit and witches’ books of spells, both white and black magic), the full-scale wood gallows might be the eeriest ...