Bunny Museum Rebuilds with Giant ‘Scanner’ Sculpture After Fire

Altadena's Bunny Museum, housing 45,000+ rabbit memorabilia items, burned down in 2025. Founders Frazee & Lubanski are rebuilding, now featuring 'Scanner,' a 14-foot stainless steel rabbit sculpture, symbolizing its return from the ashes.

” We hope Scanner will raise the neighborhood’s spirit after such a destructive fire,” Frazee informed Pasadena Weekly. “And it will certainly let the neighbors understand the Bunny Museum is mosting likely to jump back up out of the ashes.”.

The Bunny Museum’s Eclectic Collection

Before its destruction, the Bunny Gallery housed at the very least 45,000 items of bunny memorabilia, including classical times such as an Egyptian amulet, vintage toys, ceramic figurines, publications, Rose Parade float rabbits, Pests Rabbit collectibles, mounted magazine covers featuring Puerto Rican rap artist Bad Bunny, and even live bunnies. (These last were saved from the fire, in addition to the pair’s pet cats.).

Not all the museum’s displays were for the faint-hearted; in addition to themed spaces describing the duty of rabbits in pop culture, science, and superstitious notion, it boasted a limited area committed to rabbit exploitation throughout background. Describing the collection in 2018, the Los Angeles Timeswrote, “The rabbit array may appear to turn to kitsch, however the huge stockpile harbors insight and gives a quirky kind of gravitas.”.

As soon as referred to as “one of the weirdest, wildest, locations you can check out” by SFGate, the Bunny Gallery in Altadena, California, burned to the ground in 2025’s Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Established by Candace Frazee and her partner Steve Lubanski and dedicated to all things rabbit, the beloved SoCal establishment had actually been open to the general public given that 1998. During those years, it had gained a cult following and showed up in the Guinness Publication of World Records three times.

Scanner: A Symbol of Rebirth

Now, a 14-foot-tall, 1,100-pound stainless steel rabbit sculpture signs up with the 60,000 or so rabbit-related items that fans have actually contributed to Frazee and Lubanski because the fire. The sculpture, which has actually been called “Scanner,” was created by Jesse Zhao of Shijiazhuang, China, and offered to the museum by Monrovia, California, resident Wesley Zucco. A public unveiling was held February 20.