Wax museum

A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum displaying a collection of wax representations of famous people
  • Also known as: “wax museum” and “waxworks”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Biblioteca Nacional de España and Colon square.

Library
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The is the national library of Spain. It is the largest public library in the country, and one of the largest in the world. is situated 170 metres southeast of Wax museum.

Square
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Plaza de Colón is located in the encounter of , Centro and Salamanca districts of , . This plaza and its fountain commemorate the explorer Christopher Columbus, whose name in Spanish was Cristóbal Colón, whose voyages to the Americas would lead to the creation of the Spanish Empire.

Museum
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The National Museum of Archaeology is a archaeology museum in , Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the . is situated 260 metres southeast of Wax museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Recoletos and Justicia.

Quarter
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is one of the six wards of in , .

Quarter
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is a ward of belonging to the district of . It contains the neighborhoods of and Salesas.

Neighborhood
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is an area of central Madrid, named after its main square, Plaza de . It is known as Madrid's gay neighbourhood. Plaza de was named after Spanish composer and author Federico .

Wax museum

Latitude
40.42493° or 40° 25′ 30″ north
Longitude
-3.69122° or 3° 41′ 28″ west
Elevation
678 metres (2,224 feet)
Open location code
8CGRC8F5+XG
Geo­Names ID
6947439
Wiki­data ID
Q667018
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Wax museum” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Muze dylli”
  • Arabic: “متحف الشمع”
  • Arabic: “متحف شمع”
  • Armenian: “Մոմե արձանների թանգարան”
  • Catalan: “museu de cera”
  • Chinese: “蜡像博物馆”
  • Chinese: “蠟像博物館”
  • Chinese: “蠟像館”
  • Czech: “muzeum voskových figurín”
  • Danish: “voksmuseum”
  • Dutch: “panopticum”
  • Dutch: “Panopticum”
  • Dutch: “wassenbeeldenmuseum”
  • Esperanto: “muzeo de vaksoskulptaĵoj”
  • Esperanto: “Vaksfigura muzeo”
  • Finnish: “vahakabinetti”
  • French: “musée de cire”
  • French: “Musée de cire”
  • German: “Wachsfigurenkabinett”
  • German: “Wachsmuseum”
  • Greek: “μουσείο κέρινων ομοιωμάτων”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון שעווה”
  • Hungarian: “panoptikum”
  • Hungarian: “Panoptikum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum lilin”
  • Italian: “museo delle cere”
  • Italian: “Museo delle cere”
  • Japanese: “蝋人形館”
  • Korean: “밀랍인형 박물관”
  • Lithuanian: “Vaško figūrų muziejus”
  • Malay: “Muzium lilin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “vokskabinett”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “vokskabinett”
  • Norwegian: “Vokskabinett”
  • Polish: “gabinet figur woskowych”
  • Polish: “Gabinet figur woskowych”
  • Polish: “muzeum figur woskowych”
  • Portuguese: “museu de cera”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de cera”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Cera”
  • Romanian: “Muzeu de ceară”
  • Russian: “музей восковых фигур”
  • Russian: “Музей восковых фигур”
  • Serbian: “muzej voštanih figura”
  • Serbian: “музеј воштаних фигура”
  • Slovenian: “muzej voščenih lutk”
  • Spanish: “museo de cera”
  • Spanish: “Museo de cera”
  • Swedish: “Vaxkabinett”
  • Swedish: “vaxmuseum”
  • Tamil: “மெழுகு அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Turkish: “balmumu müzesi”
  • Vietnamese: “bảo tàng sáp”
  • Vietnamese: “viện bảo tàng sáp”
  • Western Armenian: “Մոմէ արձաններու թանգարան”
  • Yue Chinese: “蠟像館”

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