Cabinet wax figures

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The most famous wax museum - Madame Tussaud Museum in London

Cabinet wax figures (or Panopticum a. Panopticum) - a museum where you can see wax figures representing famous people.

The plastic properties of wax allow for the formation of accurate facial features that reflect the details of the presented characters. Wax figures usually represent the natural size of a person:

In Poland, the wax exhibits are among others. in Łódź, Międzyzdroje, Poznan and Zakopane. Bibliography

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