Mother's Wax Museum
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| Location | New Town, Greater Kolkata,[1] West Bengal, India |
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| Website | www |
Mother's Wax Museum is a wax museum located in Action Area – II of New Town, Kolkata, India on the 5th and 6th floors of the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation building.[2] Established in November 2014, it contains wax statues of more than 50 personalities, including statues of Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan.[3] The museum has been named after Mother Teresa.[4]
Featured wax sculptures
[edit]Sports
[edit]Political
[edit]- B. R. Ambedkar
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Spirituality
[edit]Social
[edit]- Raja Rammohan Roy
- Sister Nivedita (presently removed)
- Mother Teresa
Literature
[edit]Science
[edit]Music
[edit]- Manna Dey
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Kishore Kumar
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Michael Jackson
- Elvis Presley
- Justin Timberlake
- Ariana Grande
Bollywood
[edit]- Amitabh Bachchan
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Shah Rukh Khan
- Salman Khan (as Inspector Chulbul Pandey)
- Priyanka Chopra
- Varun Dhawan
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Ranveer Singh
Tollywood
[edit]- Uttam Kumar (presently removed)
- Suchitra Sen (presently removed)
- Prabhas (as Baahubali) (presently removed)
- Anushka Shetty (as Devasena) (presently removed)
- Satyajit Ray
Hollywood
[edit]- Tom Cruise
- Brad Pitt
- Angelina Jolie
- Bruce Willis
- Nicole Kidman
- Daniel Craig
- Julia Roberts
- Zac Efron
- Marilyn Monroe
- Bruce Lee
- Audrey Hepburn
- Heath Ledger (presently removed)
- Johnny Depp (as Captain Jack Sparrow)
- Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones)
- Rowan Atkinson (as Mr. Bean)
- Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter)
Fictional Characters
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "North 24 Parganas district".
- ^ "About Us". Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ "Country's first wax museum opens up in Kolkata". 14 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ "Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan's wax statues at Kolkata's wax museum". 3 November 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
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