Art, theft and new acquisitions mark the trip after the fire of the Rabbit Museum – Orange County Register

As the museum acquisitions leave it, it was bit bitter.

More than 11,000 rabbit articles of all form and size stimulated the decimated collection of the emblematic The Bunny Museum of Altadena on Tuesday, when the museum, which lost its building in the fire of Eaton, acquired the treasure of Bunny Miscellanea of ​​the succession of Faye Clair Minaker Curtis.

Curtis was 92 years old when she died on December 7, 2024. She had affected her darling collection on the theme of the rabbit at the Bunny museum in Altadena, which she visited when the museum in the late 1990s or early 2000s, when he was still absent at the house of Steve Lubanski and the Pasadena of Candage Fradee.

This visit sparked a collection mania in Curtis, which began his rabbit obsession in the 1970s, said his family. A pet rabbit is unhappy when he was prosecuted with a void exercised by his children so saddened Curtis that his friends gave him rabbit figurines to cheer him up. In the tradition of real rabbits, the collection has multiplied over the decades. To his family, who in 2024 included 10 children, 28 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren, Curtis was “grandmother Bunny”.

By informing the legis legas of the Bunny Museum of Curtis, his sister Marie Head told Frazee that she was grateful that the museum exists.

“We deeply think that this is where his collection belongs,” said Head, of Inman, in South Carolina.

The Bunny collection, in several black and yellow bins, was to be delivered to the Bunny museum the first week of January. The late Eaton burned it to the ground on January 7, as well as more than 9,000 structures. The fire killed 18 people and caused damage estimated at $ 7 to 10 billion.

This week, Curtis’ treasures were finally delivered to the museum by his niece, Hannah Romeri-Head and her boyfriend, Sam Salameh.

Steve Lubanski, the husband of Frazee, stored the donations in a rented storage container, to wait for the reopening of the museum, “who knows how many years,” said Frazee.

In the meantime, the couple tried to invigorate the burned facades at the museum and lying down. They placed new rabbit objects in slats in a concrete wall that survived the fire. On April 5, Frazee reported 12 missing little rabbits.

Steve Lubanski, co-founder of the Bunny Museum, unloading rabbit items spent in Roller Bunny, a Downey pink parade float, which burned but remains standing on the Altadena Landmark website on April 8. (Photo Gracious of Candace Frazee)

Wall painting and Graffitis Bandit, from Los Angeles, marked the third month since Eaton fire burned a large part of the Altadena with the Rabbit Museum, painting a mural on a wall where the museum was seated. (Photo Gracious of Candace Frazee)

The artist of Graffiti Mural Bandit spent two hours painting a wall painting on a wall on the site of the Bunny museum in Altadena, to mark the third month since the late Eaton decimated the famous landmark and a large part of the city. (Photo Gracious of Candace Frazee)

On the right, Hannah Romeri-Head and Sam Salameh delivered the rabbit extension collection of her late aunt Faye Clair Minaker Curtis at the Bunny Museum this week. Curtis, who died on December 7, wanted to donate her trow, which she started collecting in the 1970s, at the Altadena benchmark, who burned in the Eaton fire. (Photo Gracious of Candace Frazee)

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Steve Lubanski, co-founder of the Bunny Museum, unloading rabbit items spent in Roller Bunny, a Downey pink parade float, which burned but remains standing on the Altadena Landmark website on April 8. (Photo Gracious of Candace Frazee)

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