Hollywood Wax Museum

Hollywood Wax Museum

Infobox Museum
name = Hollywood Wax Museum


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established = 1965
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location = 6767 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, California
type = Wax museum
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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,cite news | title=Spoony Singh, 83, Dies; Created Hollywood Wax Museum | author = Douglas Martin | publisher = New York Times | page=A17 | date=October 25, 2006] and claims in promotional literature to be the only wax museum dedicated solely to celebrities. The lobby and most of the inside was renovated in 2006, and a new neon sign containing 1,532 incandescent lightbulbs and 1,189 feet of neon was erected in honor of the Museum's 40th anniversary. The displays house some 180 wax figures of movie stars, television personalities and characters such as Nintendo's Mario and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There is also a Chamber of Horrors, featuring classic movie monsters and scenes of torture.

Some of the sets include:

Hollywood Icons (classic buildings of Hollywood with celebrities on the red carpet)
*Halle Berry
*Ben Affleck
*Angelina Jolie
*Matthew McConaughey
*Jude Law
*Hugh Jackman
*Samuel L. Jackson
*Gwenyth Paltrow

Classic Stars
*Marilyn Monroe
*Charlie Chaplin
*John Wayne
*Judy Garland in *Wizard of Oz

Top 100 Movies of All Time:
*King Kong with *Jack Black and *Naomi Watts
*Mission Impossible II with *Tom Cruise
*Titanic with *Leonardo DiCaprio
*Men in Black with *Will Smith and *Tommy Lee Jones
* with *Arnold Schwarzenegger
*Spider-Man with *Tobey Maguire and *Kirsten Dunst
*Forrest Gump with *Tom Hanks

After Singh's retirement, his sons and grandson created *Kuvera Partners and continue to own, operate and further the Hollywood Wax Museum's legacy. The group built a Hollywood Wax Museum in Branson, Missouri in 1985, which is currently undergoing a renovation scheduled for completion in the Spring of 2009. The newest Hollywood Wax Museum was opened in Gatlinburg, Tennessee in 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.hollywoodwax.com/ Hollywood Wax Museum] - official site


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