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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- 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.
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Library
The Biblioteca Nacional de España is the national library of Spain. It is the largest public library in the country, and one of the largest in the world. Biblioteca Nacional de España is situated 170 metres southeast of Wax museum.
Colon square
Square
Plaza de Colón is located in the encounter of Chamberí, Centro and Salamanca districts of Madrid, Spain. 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.
National Archaeological Museum
Museum
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The National Archaeological Museum is a archaeology museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Calle de Serrano beside the Plaza de Colón, sharing its building with the National Library of Spain. National Archaeological Museum is situated 260 metres southeast of Wax museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recoletos and Justicia.
Recoletos
Quarter
Photo: Rubén Vique, CC BY 2.0.
Recoletos is one of the six wards of Salamanca in Madrid, Spain.
Justicia
Quarter
Justicia is a ward of Madrid belonging to the district of Centro. It contains the neighborhoods of Chueca and Salesas.
Chueca
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chueca is an area of central Madrid, named after its main square, Plaza de Chueca. It is known as Madrid's gay neighbourhood. Plaza de Chueca was named after Spanish composer and author Federico Chueca.
Wax museum
- Categories: type of museum, art museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Centro, Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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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: “Vokskabinett”
- 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”
- 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”
- Western Armenian: “Մոմէ արձաններու թանգարան”
- Yue Chinese: “蠟像館”
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