wax museum

English

Noun

wax museum (plural wax museums)

1. A museum featuring lifelike statues made of wax.
   • 2020, James McKay, Ray Milland: The Films, 1929–1984, McFarland, →ISBN, page 261:

     On the eve of selling his London wax museum to American Amos Burns, Claude Dupree is murdered by his Jack the Ripper figure, which apparently comes to life.

Related terms

• waxwork
• waxworks
• wax figure

Translations

museum featuring statues made of wax

• French: musée de cire (fr) m
• German: Wachsfigurenkabinett (de) n, Panoptikum (de) n
• Italian: museo delle cere m
• Portuguese: museu de cera m
• Spanish: museo de cera m