National Wax Museum (Ireland)
| An Músaem Céarach Náisiúnta Plus | |
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| Established | June 1996 |
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| Location | 4 Foster Place, Temple Bar Dublin, Ireland |
| Coordinates | 53°20′43″N 6°15′40″W / 53.345150°N 6.261216°WCoordinates: 53°20′43″N 6°15′40″W / 53.345150°N 6.261216°W |
| Type | wax museum |
| Owner | Patrick Dunning |
| Public transit access | Stephen's Green Luas stop (Green Line) College Green bus stops |
| Nearest parking | Park Rite Fleet Street Car Park |
| Website | waxmuseumplus |
The National Wax Museum Plus is a privately owned waxworks museum in Dublin, Ireland. On 4 December, 2016, the museum officially closed its doors at The Armoury, Foster Place, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The museum will reopen in a new city centre location in early 2017.
Formerly, the museum was situated on Granby Row, but this building demolished to make way for a hotel. In the past, it was a former site to prayer rooms converted into a cinema and then into a waxworks (now being a hotel after its closure).
The museum was previously owned by Donie Cassidy, a Senator and former TD. It is now owned by Music Recording entrepreneur, Patrick Dunning, owner of Grouse Lodge Studios.
In the previous Wax Museum building, there was a mixture of wax figures and various other figures that were not modelled in wax (mainly because the wax materials were not suited to such. For example: the Lord of the Rings character, Gollum is made from fibre glass rather than wax). This can be to do with problems relating to the figure's weight and skin tones (wax is a heavy material and also useful for a basis of realistic human skin tones) or simply on the artist's style of work.
The front of the building bore a striking mythical Irish giant. At the entrance were some figures including an impressive Gollum figure. The path through the museum brings visitors to a scene with figures such as Crocodile Dundee, E.T., and Irish Sporting and entertainment stars. It went upstairs through a winding staircase, surrounding a jack in the beanstalk scene, complete with giant. From there, visitors entered the Children's World (with the head of the outside Giant peaking in), and witness various story book characters, and children's television show characters. Main attractions here were tunnels in which children could crawl through, the Flintstones, the Power Rangers, and Bob the Builder.
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