Wax Museum
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Overview
56 Ferny Avenue Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, Queensland 4217Largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere. The Gold Coast Wax Museum in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast.
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Description
The Wax Museum is the largest in the southern hemisphere.
At the Wax Museum you can meet famous people who made history- Movie Stars, Scientists, Explorers, Villains and World Leaders all presented with startling realism and dressed in authentically reproduced costumes of their times.
"The figures are so life-like the visitor could be excused for expecting them to walk and talk".
There are two sections to the Museum:
The WORLD IN WAX provides a series of snapshots of the people who have shaped and continue to shape our lives, It presents human beings in ll their variety. This exhibit included Dioramas of Australian History and Nersery Rymes, Replicas of the Crown Jewls and Fantasia Macabre, a unique and little seen collection of mythical characters from fiction features such macabre identities as Count Dracula, Frankenstein Monster, The Thing, The Zombie, The Werewolf & many other creatures from Legend, folklore & literature.
The Chamber of Horrors is a grim, staggering record of Human Cruelty throughout the ages... More spine chilling than fiction, is the only display of its kind in the world.
Thank you for your interest in The Wax Museum in Surfers Paradise.
The Gold Coast Wax Museum is Australia's largest museum of its kind, featuring more than 110 life-size wax effigies, copies of the British Crown Jewels and dioramas of Australian history. The Wax Museum is visited by many thousands of people each year who marvel at the amazing realism of the life-size figures in authentic costumes.
This is your invitation to meet many important people on the Queensland Gold Coast. Come face to face with former P.M. John Howard, Kylie Minogue, former P.M. Bob Hawke, President Barack Obama, PP John F. Kennedy, Adolph Hitler, members of the Royal Family, and many others whose lives have all left an indelible mark on our world. There's Michelangelo, Henry VIII, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Stalin, and dozens of others from the Arts, Politics, Entertainments, Science, Medicine, and the Military down through the ages.
The Gold Coast Wax Museum is listed as a Great Wax Museum of the World. The figures have been crafted by leading overseas sculptors to international standards, equal in quality to the world's best, as seen in Europe, the United Kingdom, and U.S.A.
The incredibly intricate detail includes hair applied one strand at a time, requiring many working hours for one head, and the eyes so anatomically real that they seem to follow the viewer around. This painstaking work takes two and half years, with each figure valued at $60,000.
In the Famous People World in Wax Section, wander through at your leisure and spend as long as you like viewing the people who have been authentically reproduced. Information cards are located alongside each figure.
The Chamber of Horrors (set in its own medieval dungeon) is a guided tour of 30 minute duration covering this grim, staggering record of Human Cruelty throughout the ages…More spine chilling than fiction, the only display of its kind in the world. Authentic records of man's inhumanity to man, from medieval devices to that most infamous of all…Hitler's gas chambers and death camps. You'll see blood curdling tableaux of lifelike torturers including The Rack, The Iron Cage, The Strangling Post, The Rat Torture, The Disemboweler, a real Shrunken Head and many others.
The Wax Museum: Admission Charge:
Adults $29.00 Children $22.00 (Child 3 years to 13 years)
A Special Family ticket (2 Adults & 2 Children) $88.00 or (2 Adults & 3 Children) $110.00
Group Tickets of 5 (comprising Adults and Children) is $22.00 per person. (One person is to pay for the group rate on entry).
We are open 7 Days from 10 am to 10 pm with the exceptions of Anzac Day (25 April), our hours 2 pm to 10 pm and we are closed on Christmas Day.
Note all information herein is subject to change without notice
We thank you for your enquiry and we look forward to your visit to The Wax Museum.
www.waxmuseum.com.au
Opening Hours
Open 7 Days from 10AM to 10PM with exceptions of Anzac Day the 25th of April, our hours 2PM to 10PM and we are closed on Christmas Day.
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Reviews
Don't go there.... waste of money
Unhappy customer from vic - 11/07/2011 17:28:05
Wax Museum's House of Horrors is not suitable for young children. We weren't warned. Front of Desk chap was very rude - just grabbed our money, never bothered to explain that it might not be suitable for young children. He also constantly nagged us to keep an eye on our children - "don't let them get out of control". Our kids were far to frightened to be running around the exhibit. He needs a lesson in customer service.
All the exhibits are either behind bars or glass making it near impossible to photograph! And there are no public toilets!!! Hard to believe that such a business passed council building permits without incorporating public toilets!!
Madame Tussuad's in London and Los Angeles is way better - don't waste your money