The museum features magic tricks, props, posters, programmes, toys, photographs and artefacts related to conjuring history. The Magic Circle's headquarters houses a theatre, library, museum, a dining room, a clubroom and bars. It was voted the UK's Number One Venue in the hospitality industry's Top 20 UK Venues poll 2008. Since 1998, The Magic Circle building in central London near Euston Station in Camden has been available for meetings and corporate entertainment. ' Houdini's Cabinet' at The Magic Circle Museum, London
Anyone breaking this or any other rule may be expelled. Members give their word not to wilfully disclose magic secrets other than to bona fide students of magic. The motto of the society is the Latin indocilis privata loqui, which roughly translated means "not apt to disclose secrets". In September 2021 she was elected as The Magic Circle's first female, and youngest ever, president, using her working name Megan Swann. In 2014, Megan Knowles-Bacon became the first female officer in The Magic Circle, as well as the youngest person to be elected as an officer she was elected as secretary. As of 2010 there were around eighty female members of The Magic Circle, including Paul Daniels' wife, Debbie McGee. The club was male-only until 1991, when more than 75% of members voted to admit women. The Magic Circular claims to be the longest-running regular magic magazine in conjuring history. ĭevant became the first president of The Magic Circle, and in 1906, Maskelyne edited the first issue of The Magic Circular magazine, a regular feature for members ever since.
The first official meeting was at the Green Man public house in Soho, but meetings were later in a room at St George's Hall in Langham Place, where David Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne were regularly seen performing. However, it was finally agreed that the name "Magic Circle", which shares the same initials as those of Martin Chapender, would be more appropriate. At this founders meeting, chaired by Servais Le Roy, those present decided upon the name of the Society: it was initially felt that the name of the Society should be the Martin Chapender Club, in memory of the performer and founding member who had recently died at the age of 25.
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The Magic Circle was founded in 1905 after a meeting of 23 amateur and professional magicians at London's Pinoli's Restaurant.
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