Professor gets magic tour from Copperfield

Copperfield and Zompetti

Communication professor Joseph Zompetti was given a personal tour of David Copperfield’s International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts on April 25. Copperfield invited Zompetti to the museum because the professor has written about the rhetorical effects of magic. Zompetti is also planning on writing a book about the rhetoric of magic which the visit to the museum will help facilitate. “Meeting David Copperfield was inspiring in itself,” Zompetti said. “But witnessing the vast amounts of historical information and artifacts located in the museum was mind-blowing. It will definitely help me in my research.”

Established in 1991 after Copperfield purchased the Mulholland Library of the Conjuring Arts, the Copperfield museum has increasingly grown over the years and is now recognized as the largest magic museum in the world. Located at a secret location in Las Vegas, the museum is only open to magicians and scholars interested in magic.

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