Wax museum
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A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection wax figures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses.
Wax museums often have a special section dubbed the chamber of horrors in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Template:Seealso
Wax museums can be credited to Marie Tussaud, who traveled Europe with wax sculptures in the late 1700s. Many horror movies have been made about wax museums. One of the most famous ones is called House of Wax. This movie is about dead people made into wax figures.
Wax Museums
Madame Tussaud's is perhaps the most famous name associated wax museums. In 1835 Madame Tussaud established her first permanent exhibition in London's Baker Street. There is also a large Madame Tussaud's in Dam Square, Amsterdam, and two locations in the USA: the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Times Square in New York City.
One of the most popular wax museums in the United States for decades was The Movieland Wax Museum in Anaheim, California near Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm. The museum opened in 1962 and through the years added many wax figures of famous show business figures. Several stars in fact attended the unveilings of the wax incarnations. The museum closed its doors on October 31, 2005 after years of dwindling attendance.
Louis Tussauds Waxworks in Blackpool, is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area. Opened in 1929 when Lindsay Parkinson built Tussaud's present premises on the Golden Mile.
Another popular wax museum is the Musee Conti Wax Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana which features wax figures portraying the city's history as well as a "Haunted Dungeon" section of wax figures of famous characters of horror films and literature.
The Royal London Wax Museum in downtown Victoria BC features "royalty to rogues and the renowned".[1]
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