Wax museum Mysore in October 2010. A wax museum opened at Jaipur, Rajasthan in 18 December 2016. Madame Tussauds opened its first museum in India at New Delhi in 2017. Wax museum A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes. Some wax museums have a special section dubbed the "Chamber of Horrors", in which the more grisly exhibits are displayed. Some collections are more specialized, as, for example, collections of wax medical models once used for training medical professionals. Many museums or
The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers by John Dickson Carr is a Sherlock Holmes story. The story was published in the 1954 collection, "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes", a joint enterprise of Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. While waiting up late one night, Holmes and Watson are visited by the night watchman of a famous waxworks and his grand–daughter. The watchman has noticed that the playing cards in the hand of a wax figure in a Chamber of Horrors exhibit have changed. Holmes becomes immediately interested in this mystery and sends Watson