Wax museum
A museum of wax is a Musée which exposes Statue S in Cire representing famous people , that they are contemporary, historical, or imaginary, possibly in reconstitutions of memorable scenes of which they were the protagonists.
The wax museums often have a special section gathering the most macabre models, generally called room of the horrors .
The two more famous wax museums are the Musée of Mrs Tussaud to London, and the Musée Grévin with Paris.
Certain visitors are made there take in photographs at the sides of the celebrities represented, in order to make then accept their close relations that they really met them.
Popular culture
Cinema
The wax museum is in the middle of the intrigue of several films of horror, of which:
- 1988 : Waxwork ,
- 1973: Terror in the Wax Museum ,
- 1969: Nightmare in Wax ,
- 1966: the Room of the horrors ( House off Wax ),
- 1945: The Frozen Ghost ,
- 1945: Midnight Manhunt ,
- 1933: Masks of wax ( Mystery off the Wax Museum ), like its two Remake S:
- 1953 : the Man with the wax mask ( House off Wax ),
- 2005: the wax House ( House off Wax ).
Televised series
This topic is the subject also of several episodes of televised series, of which:
- 1981 : the Museum of wax ( Wax Museum ) of Incredible Hulk ,
- 1963: The New Exhibit of the fourth dimension,
- 1953: Mystery in Wax of Superman ,
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