The Ohio Museum of Horror — Attraction in Galion

Unfortunately one of the places we were really looking forward to, but ended up being really let down by, was The Ohio Museum of Horror and The Last Meal restaurant. If we could give a lower review, we probably would. Everything we had seen online from their page made it sound just like somewhere we would really enjoy, but in reality we wish we had skipped this stop.

We started off in the restaurant, which was supposed to be a true crime/serial killer inspired restaurant where all of the meals were based on death row meal requests. While the idea is great, the restaurant was far from it. There was no real decoration or theming beyond some tvs playing documentaries and some paper cut outs and cheap monster masks on the walls, and everything else was drowned out by extremely loud heavy metal music, to the point where even having a conversation at the table was hard at times. Having seen a photo of the menu posted online, we had believed that there were going to be more options since the photo was listed as ‘Page 1’, but unfortunately there was only that page. The food was ok, but nothing like what we were expecting. I ordered the Ted Bundy, and had to send the steak back because what should have been a medium well steak, was rare enough to almost walk off the plate (even after being sent back). The rest was standard for breakfast, with the exception of the hash brown with was somehow both crunchy and somewhat soggy, and tasted like the oil it was most likely cooked in. The picture with it cut up, was after I had already sent it back and it was re-cooked… My husband ordered the Aileen Wuornos, and the fries were actually pretty good (was a separate charge, not included with the meal), but the smash cheeseburger would’ve been better tasting if we had just stopped at McDonald’s… The mocktails were good however.

The museum was connected to the restaurant, so the experience was ruined a bit with the music still blasting into the room. The exhibits were a lot smaller than we expected them to be, and seemed more like someone’s collection in their basement vs a museum. We expected more variety in exhibits compared to what there was, and didn’t think the entire museum would only take roughly 10 minutes to do, including the time it took to read the information in the exhibits. The serial killer area to be a big let down, especially when the theming for the restaurant revolved around that specific theme. The pictures of the museum that I included are the entirety of the all of the exhibits available…

Overall we would not recommend stopping here for both the restaurant and the museum, as it was really a waste of time and money that could’ve been...

I’ll be honest, I know this is new and that’s understandable but this was not worth it.

We drove almost an hour and a half to this place. It’s in the middle of Nowhere, Ohio. If it was in a more major of a city it would’ve been worth it to do other things after.

We get there and the staff were wonderful. That’s why they didn’t get a 1 star. Our reservation was for an hour later, but because nobody was there they let us into the museum.

The museum was nothing that was totally mind blowing. There were a couple of things that were really cool, the aesthetic was great. But the museum is a small room with a few things and some printed pictures to make it look more enticing. More skulls, wet specimens, you name it. I would go to the oddities and curiosities festival and see more interesting specimens.

Then came dinner. The idea is awesome! I ordered the Burn Bundy Burn drink. VERY good no complaints. I then ordered the Ted Bundy Last meal; eggs, toast, hash brown, steak, orange juice, milk, and coffee. I get the food and it looks good. The presentation was very nice. The negatives; the hash brown was a frozen patty from Kroger, and my steak was RAW, not rare, RAW. I asked for medium rare. I have NEVER received a steak that was SO undercooked in my life. I’ve never even cooked a steak so raw before. I was informed there was a new cook. Understandable but I even stuck my finger in the middle and instantly knew it wasn’t cooked. The waitress had to take it back TWICE. Because the cook put it back on the stove and she brought it back and it was still raw in the middle. Not rare. She asked me if I wanted it well done then. I said yes because I figured the cook would cook it to at least medium rare. Nope the cook then overcooked it and made it chew. There was no one else in the museum or restaurant that came in until we had already put in our order.

My partner got the John Wayne Gacy meal and all of the food tasted like it was frozen food from the grocery store. Definitely not worth $50 with tip (yes we tipped because it wasn’t the waitress’s fault).

All in all I think the idea is great I just think they need to train the cook more since the menu is fairly limited. Turn the music down just a little. And start expanding the museum quickly. We are willing to give this place some time to come back and try again in the future. It wasn’t a horrible experience just not...

Pretty disappointing, even at just $10 a head. A few interesting bits but the exhibits were mostly thrown together in a random arrangement. When we arrived around 2:00 on a Saturday, we were asked if had a reservation for the restaurant. When we said we were just there for the museum, they had us a wait a bit, charged us admission and pointed to the museum rooms. After seeing reviews that said how amazing the staff are, I was a little let down that they never checked in, offered to answer questions, or even returned a "goodbye" as we left. I think they were all busy with the dozen or so customers at the bar/diner. The museum was a big open area with an adjoining smaller room. The placards explaining what things were sometimes mentioned items that were not actually on display and in other cases there simply was no explanation. For example the Ouija boards were pretty cool but there was no indication if any of them were from a particular time or had any association with a person or event. Obviously some were older but with several apparent duplicates you're on your own to figure out what, if anything, the display means. Similarly a display showing parts of a stage where Dimebag Daryl was murdered inexplicably had a video about Megadeth playing. The most frustrating thing though was that loud music was being played throughout the whole museum so you couldn't really hear most of the monitors that were playing what I assume more short documentaries related to the exhibits. We couldn't even hear each other well over the music. Fortunately we saw everything in about the time it took for three songs to play. I had the impression we were looking at someone's collection of oddities, true crime memorabilia, and movie/TV show memorabilia. If they take the time to present the exhibits better (most are just on black shelf's attached randomly to black walls) and provide better information about what is being exhibited, it would be a more...