O.J. Simpson Pop-Up Museum Opens In L.A.

LOS ANGELES – A pop-up museum dedicated to examining the legacy of
former USC and NFL star O.J. Simpson will open in Chinatown today.

Displays in The O.J. Museum include sports memorabilia, a 1994 Ford Bronco, board games, a collection of 60 bootleg trial T-shirts and interactive exhibits.

"The O.J. trial has been a lifelong obsession of mine," said Adam Papagan, the exhibit's curator. "Everyone knows the media version, but The O.J. Museum is the vernacular of the people."

The exhibit at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery, 974 Chung King Road, will be open from 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday.

Admission is $5 at the door, $4 at the gallery's website, coagulacuratorial.com.
Additional information is available by calling (323) 480-7852.

A parole board voted 4-0 in July to free O.J. Simpson after serving the minimum sentence for two 2008 felony convictions, which landed him in prison after he beat murder charges for the death of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and an acquaintance, Ronald Goldman.

After Simpson's 1995 murder acquittal in one of the most famous trials in U.S. history, Simpson again found himself accused of being on the wrong side of the law in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2007.

There, he and five accomplices kidnapped and robbed a man who was trying to sell them sports memorabilia. Simpson, now 70, was convicted of kidnapping and robbery and sentenced to between nine and 33 years in prison. The July hearing marked the first time he was up for release.

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--City News Service, Cody Fenwick, Associated Pres contributed to this report/Photo credit: KOLO-TV via AP