20 Items Tagged

Wax Museum

10 Places to Get in the Wimbledon Spirit

A tour of all things tennis, from famous rackets to hidden courts to wax figures.

Roxanne Hoorn July 5, 2024

St. Augustine, Florida

Potter's Wax Museum

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

Podcast: Madame Tussaud

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team June 1, 2022

Taxidermied bears in the main hall.

Degersheim, Switzerland

Dreamfactory's World of Wonders

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

Muzej Voštanih Figura

Jagodina, Serbia

Muzej Voštanih Figura (The Wax Museum)

A quirky little wax museum is home to some of the most famous Serbians in history.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Wax Museum

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

A waxwork of Madame Tussaud herself, with Sleeping Beauty, c. 1850.

31 days of halloween

How the Real Madame Tussaud Built a Business Out of Beheadings

Marie Grosholtz sure loved to make death masks of freshly executed criminals.

Betsy Golden Kellem October 10, 2017

Laclede's Landing Wax Museum.

St. Louis, Missouri

Laclede's Landing Wax Museum

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

A recent auction of wax presidents and first ladies included busts, furniture, and other museum pieces.

Where Wax U.S. Presidents Go to Retire

In Gettysburg, it’s the end of an era for the Hall of Presidents and First Ladies Museum.

Matthew Blitz January 18, 2017

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Bible Walk

Mansfield, Ohio

BibleWalk Wax Museum

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

The Grotesque 100-Year Old Wax Figures on Display in Brooklyn

Murder, anatomy, death masks, and erotic beauties in wax—a Victorian amusement comes stateside.

Michelle Enemark March 25, 2016

La Specola.

Florence, Italy

La Specola Anatomical Collection

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Permanently Closed

Wax crucifixion scene inside the park

Orlando, Florida

The Holy Land Experience

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

The murder scene as rendered in 2001

Jean-Paul Marat's Bathtub at Musée Grévin

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

Anatomical exhibits at the Museo di Palazzo Poggi

Museo di Palazzo Poggi Anatomy & Obstetrics Collection

An extraordinary collection of 18th century anatomical waxworks.

Baltimore, Maryland

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Zenobia, on the sign above the shed that is the Witch's Dungeon

Plainville, Connecticut

Witch’s Dungeon

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.