Madame Tussauds Wax Museum

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Recently, while on a trip in Las Vegas, I visited a museum known as Madame Tussauds. It's a really awesome place to visit because there are several locations scattered around the world. It's also pretty neat how the figurines look so alike to the celebrities and entrepreneurs they are sculpted after.
 Some of the great things about these museums are the sculptures. In Vegas, they have several famous figurines like Britney Spears, Marilyn Monroe, and several other singers, athletes, actors, and so on. The figurines themselves aren't the fantastic thing about the museum, but the details the artists put into these sculptures are amazing. They even put replica clothes that the person actually wore in real life, so they look so realistic.

 It's also a nice place to visit because there are different themes to each room in the museum. When I visited, they had this disco room, a classical/ timeless room, a past president's room. They even had a room modeled after the Oval Office in the White House where you could take pictures with the waxed Barack Obama. It was pretty amazing.

The bad things about this museum, on the other hand, include waiting in line. Since this place is a tourist attraction, you usually have to wait in a long line- in the hot Vegas sun. Another thing is all the kids that come into this museum. One kid, on seeing a Lion King broadway figure, jumped with joy and was very loud and clear that he wanted his mother to take a picture of him with it. They also like to touch the sculptures and I swear one little girl almost knocked Lady Gaga to the ground. Also, it gets crowded. It is an easy place to get to if you're vacationing in Vegas so a lot of people are there. Another thing is, the Hugh Hefner figure freaks me out a bit. I have also seen House of Wax and that place reminds me terribly of that movie.


Other than the obvious surface flaws of huge crowds, it's an awesome place to visit. I think they could probably expand the location, thus having a more open place to fit more people and to give others breathing room. About the sculptures, they are doing a wonderful job with their abilities to make them so life like. Madame Tussauds Wax Museums is definitely a place I would have the honor of visiting again. If you yourself are interested in going to this museum, or you just want to see the pictures of all the sculptures from  each of the locations around the world, you can visit MadameTussauds.com.