O.J. Simpson's getaway car, the white Bronco, is a museum piece in Tennessee

When O.J. Simpson attempted to elude police in a now-infamous white Ford Bronco, he likely wasn’t thinking that it would someday end up in a Tennessee museum that was designed to look like Alcatraz.

Simpson, who’s death from cancer was announced Thursday, is still very much, for better or worse, a worldwide celebrity for being charged with (and acquitted of) the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson, his former wife, and Ronald L. Goldman.

And there's celebrity status as well attached to the 1993 white Ford Bronco that Simpson commandeered to flee, leading a swarm of police cars on a low-speed chase along 60 miles of California freeways, while, in real time, 95 million viewed the pursuit on television.

The Bronco now is on display at the privately owned Alcatraz East Crime Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, better known as the home of Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park. The SUV stands alongside the 1968 Volkswagen Beetle that was owned by serial killer Ted Bundy. There’'s also the 1933 Essex-Terraplane used by the bank robber John Dillinger and the so-called death car from the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” riddled with bullet holes.

A story in The New York Times explains that the museum was designed to be something of an intersection between the Tennessee State Prison just outside Nashville and the original Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay.