Wax Museums
A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection of wax figures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses. Wax museums often have a special section dubbed the "chamber of horrors" in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed.
- Madame Tussauds
- Madame Tussauds London
- Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
- Madame Tussauds Amsterdam
- Hollywood Wax Museum
- Musée Grévin
- National Wax Museum (Ireland)
- Waxworks museum of the Castle of Diósgyőr
- Panoptikum Hamburg
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