Who wants to look at one of those ‘wax statue making another wax statue’ pictures? This time it’s a famous person (Al Roker) at a famous wax museum (Madam Tussaud’s in NYC). Please look at this while I gather together my museology notes. It might be awhile. Thank you for...
Barack Obama may be a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” but no one beats America’s 21st President Chester Alan Arthur in the metrosexuality department. Known as Elegant Arthur because of his expensive taste in clothing (he owned over eighty pairs of pants), he was the first chief executive to have his...
Bloody diorama at the American Heritage Wax Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. There’s a fun article on the American roadside wax museum here.
A bit pissed off because a post I was in the middle of writing (and I mean REALLY writing) suddenly disappeared into interweb oblivion. Oh well. I don’t want to write all over again. Come on, that would require work. So until I find the energy to research another museum,...
I thought I had forever retired the wax museum posts, but I had to share this picture with you. The Helwan Wax Museum, located in a suburb of Cairo, displayed wax sculptures of important figures from Egyptian history and culture, like Saladin, Cleopatra, President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the Bride...
I feel like I haven’t posted a photo from a random wax museum in a very long time. And after a quick look at my archive it appears to be true. Not since the Lebanese Hall of Fame, which is actually full of animated silicon models but that’s sort of...
With all the wax museum tourist traps out there, the next one wins the prize for weirdest, especially if mom and dad end up taking the kids here after the “Maid of the Mist” boat ride. I mean, what kind of tourist town would Niagara Falls be if it didn’t...
By the way, there is a National Presidents Wax Museum next to Mount Rushmore. While you’re there, you can eat lunch at the Executive Order Grill, play mini-golf at the Holy Terror and wonder why the hell you’re in South Dakota.
I need to stop the wax museum posts. But I feel it’s my responsibility to share the creepiness with you. Please don’t try this at home.
