Wax
Czech Museum of Music.
Today would have been George Harrison’s 70th birthday if he was still with us. So what better way to honour it than with this random photo from the Czech Museum of Music. A few years ago the museum had a special exhibit full of Beatles memorabilia, including wax models of...
Music Valley Wax Museum of the Stars in Nashville, Tennessee
Nothing is scarier than seeing Charley Pride (I mean Garry Shandling) at the Music Valley Wax Museum of the Stars in Nashville, Tennessee. Actually I take that back. I’ll stare at a million Charley wax figures any day over listening to his music.
Movieland Wax Museum, Florida
In 1959 Movieland Wax Museum opened just a few miles away from Disneyland. But this is America and one is just never enough. I mean, come on, how dare we go some place and not be reminded of some other place? So in 1975 the Movieland Wax Museum cloned itself...
Benjamin Franklin
The only way to recognize Presidents Day is with a bad wax museum picture. And yes, I know…Benjamin Franklin was never President. But some people think he was. So whatever.
Westminster Abbey Museum, England
This life-sized wax effigy of King Charles II was made soon after his death in February 1685. It stood over the king’s grave in Westminster Abbey for 150 years before being moved to the Jesus Chapel/Islip’s Chantry, where it was photographed by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1896. Now on...
France’s largest Anatomy Museum, Musée Orfila
One of the many reasons why I’ll never have a baby… Seen at France’s largest Anatomy Museum, Musée Orfila at the Université Paris Descartes. Besides the Opération de la Cesarienne (wax model of Caesarean section), you’ll find thousands of other wax anatomical models, both human and animal. Um, aren’t humans...
American roadside wax museum
Thanks to the American roadside wax museum, even this daffy site can commemorate such a somber event. ,Verso:,“JOHN BROWN,Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and 21 others captured the United States arsenal and rifle works at Harper’s Ferry, Va., now W. Va., with the intention of setting up a mountain refuge...
Lebanese Hall of Fame
In the two and half years of its existence, this blog has never paid a visit to the country of Lebanon. My sincerest apologies to the Lebanese people because it sounds you guys have one of my favourite kind of museums. Yes, I have a love/hate relationship with really bad...
Louis Tussaud’s Palace of Wax in Grand Prairie, Texas
There are so many Michael Jackson wax statues in North America, it was hard to choose just one. From Toronto and New York to St. Louis and Las Vegas, it’s like a traveling tour of melting Jacksons. But I finally settled on a young Michael statue (because I have a...
