Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum, Mental health awareness museum in Hollywood, California.
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death occupies a white building on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, its recessed entrance flanked by two cylindrical white columns and a glass double door. Above the door, red three-dimensional capital letters spell "PSYCHIATRY" over the smaller black lines "AN INDUSTRY OF DEATH" and "MUSEUM". Inside, the exhibition comprises 18 installations with film footage, artifacts from different eras, and digital presentations.
The museum opened in December 2005 under the direction of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Since then, the facility has collected and displayed materials tracing the development of psychiatric practices across several centuries.
The museum is owned by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Its exhibits advance the Scientology view that psychiatry is a profit-driven industry, and it opened on 21 December 2005 with Scientologists including Priscilla Presley and Leah Remini attending.
The museum occupies a white building at 6616 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, with a recessed glass double door behind two white columns; the red sign above reads "PSYCHIATRY: AN INDUSTRY OF DEATH". Admission is free. The CCHR also runs traveling versions of the exhibit, shown at events such as the 2006 Worldcon in Anaheim.
The museum opened on 21 December 2005 with a gala attended by Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Jenna Elfman, Danny Masterson, Giovanni Ribisi, Catherine Bell and Anne Archer. In March 2007 BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney confronted Church spokesman Tommy Davis here while filming Scientology and Me.
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