Hollywood Wax Museum

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Hollywood Wax Museum
Established 1965
Location 6767 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California
Type Wax museum
Website http://www.hollywoodwax.com/

The Hollywood Wax Museum is located in the heart of the tourist district of Hollywood, California, USA.

The museum, the brainchild of entrepreneur Spoony Singh, was opened in 1965,[1] and claims in promotional literature to be the only wax museum dedicated solely to celebrities. Behind the small storefront, the displays house some 180 wax figures[1] of media stars, fictional characters, and famous politicians, and a traditional Chamber of Horrors, featuring movie monsters and scenes of torture.

Some of the wax figures include:

Outside are footprints in concrete of some of the movie stars sculpted in wax inside, in the Grauman's Chinese Theater tradition.

The museum has something of a cult following, centering on its singularly poor wax likenesses, and diorama settings with incongruous groupings of celebrities and props. Nicolas Cage, for example, sits on a motorcycle next to Nintendo's Mario character. The museum also features a diorama of The Last Supper, alongside the wax T-800 with its face blown off.

Other branches of the museum are located in Branson, Missouri and Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Douglas Martin. "Spoony Singh, 83, Dies; Created Hollywood Wax Museum", New York Times, October 25, 2006, p. A17.