A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.
Some wax museums have a special section dubbed the 'chamber of horrors' in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Some collections are more specialized, as for example collections of wax medical models once used for training medical professionals. Many museums or displays in historical houses that are not wax museums as such use wax figures as part of their displays. The origin of wax museums goes back to the early 18th century at least, and wax funeral effigies of royalty and some other figures exhibited by their tombs had essentially been tourist attractions well before that.
History before 1800
The making of life-size wax figures wearing real clothes grew out of the funeral practices of European royalty. In the Middle Ages it was the habit to carry the corpse, fully dressed, on top of the coffin at royal funerals, but this sometimes had unfortunate consequences in hot weather, and the custom of making an effigy in wax for this role grew, again wearing actual clothes so that only the head and hands needed wax models. After the funeral these were often displayed by the tomb or elsewhere in the church, and became a popular attraction for visitors, which it was often necessary to pay to view.
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North Star Middle School students learn about people from world history ... The school's "wax museum" project was presented Dec ... They really enjoy doing that." 'They really worked for this' ... "Some of them memorized (their speeches).
18, at the Classic Car Museum of St ... Got a cool European car you’d like to show off? There’s no registration fee for this show, so you can just wax it and go. It’s free to check out as well, but admission to the museum is $15.
A Dublin museum said it would 'do better' after its sculpture of a famous singer was slammed by fans of the late artist ... A spokesman for the National Wax Museum in Dublin said ... The Dublin museum ...
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... show, and to develop a penguin zoo, Cauvery promenade & cascade, jungle track, and a wax museum, for the tourists.According to the plan, these new facilities have been proposed on a 198-acre land.
... akin to sneering at the beautiful work of a Norman Rockwell while waxing silly over some bizarro hunk of nightmarish slop hung on a wall in some museum of modern “art.” But that’s their problem.
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John Bishop and his wax figure in 2015. But John isn’t the only famous face with an unfortunate story about their wax likeness (or, in his case, lack thereof) ... see her wax statue for the first time.
McCurdy's corpse then spent six decades traveling the country as a macabre attraction in sideshows, wax museums and low-budget movies ... Territorial Museum, told The Oklahoman in a 2022 interview.
Check out the fascinating Olympic Museum and don’t miss the sadly neglected Collection de l’Art Brut, which features unusual ... There’s even an erotic wax museum for the adventurous – its website states.
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A photo going viral on social media allegedly shows torture by Bashar al-Assad's regime. But it's actually from a wax museum in Iran that shows the brutality of the Shah's regime against political dissidents ... .
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17 Dec 2024
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17 Dec 2024