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Royal London Wax Museum

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Address

http://www.waxmuseum.bc.ca
470 Belleville St.
Victoria , BC V8V 1W9
(250) 388-4461

Review

The Royal London Wax Museum is located in the original Canadian Pacific Steamship ticket office, where ocean liners once arrived from destinations around the world. Its noteworthy architecture is the work of Francis Rattenbury, who also designed the Empress Hotel and BC Legislature buildings. The historical past is fitting, since the museum now displays more than 300 fascinating and accurate wax reproductions of history’s most famous (and infamous) individuals.

Hundreds of years ago it became customary to preserve the faces of prominent people with a "death mask." These masks are essentially molds of the face, and allow us to see precisely what the person looked like. The wax sculptors have used these masks, portraits and, where possible, photographs to create astonishingly realistic figures. Education is a role that the museum takes seriously, and they strive to ensure the clothing and settings are also as accurate as possible.

In the British Royalty Through the Ages exhibit, meet everyone from Queen Victoria to Princess Diana. The Garden of Literature is home to Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. The Knoll of Knowledge hosts inventors and scientists such as Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.

Frozen in Time brings to life the tragic Franklin Expedition, whose daunting assignment from Queen Victoria was to find the fabled Northwest Passage through Canada’s Arctic. Pathfinder Park chronicles some of the early explorers such as Jacques Cartier, who claimed the New World for France, and Captain James Cook. And of course, the museum offers a contemporary gallery with more recently famous folk such as Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, and Clint Eastwood. Fans of the macabre will also revel in the Chamber of Horrors (warning: not for the squeamish).

The Royal London Wax Museum is an entertaining way to learn history as you stroll through the pages of time.
Written By: Richard Brunt
On: 6/16/2001

Directions

On the Inner Harbour, in downtown Victoria.

Features

Kid Friendly

Map

User Reviews

myra
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1/22/2008
hi we went there when my neice was 10 yrs old now she 28 we realy like the musuem it was cool we hope to go back sometimes again thay look so real :)
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myra
myra 
20rating
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11/4/2007
we went to the wax museum it is very nice like to go back agen nice place to vist to lots to dooooooooo
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shianne
20rating
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3/8/2006
First To Review
i think the wax musuem is the best place evar!!!!!
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Anonymous
10rating
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11/7/2006
hollllla, wax museum is TIIIIIGHT
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