I met the other day with a friend from high school (now it's a serious long-time acquaintance), who lives and works in the Czech Republic. He moved there 15 years ago and since then we rarely see each other, but every time he comes to Serbia.
In addition to reminiscing about our previous years together, we also talk about some trips, interesting things we saw, about music, film, politics...
The glasses of beer we empty, everyone was heard 🙂
And so, we mentioned the movie Top Gun, and Tom Cruise. that he would mention how Tom looks, the same as 30 years ago.
Like a doll that never ages, like a wax figure.
He tells me, he was in Prague and saw the display of the Madame Tussauds museum, where Tom's replica was placed in the film section.
I smiled and remembered my visit to that same museum 7 years ago.
I looked at a few pictures in his phone and tried to remember them, to compare with the pictures from my archive.
I couldn't recognize the stage set and the costumes of some of the figures (they are probably from the new movies), but they are almost all the figures I have seen too.
And so, our conversation about the film, led me to remember the trip to Prague (this Thursday #tbt tag goes for the sake of memory), the location of Madame Tussauds Museum (which I will post with #worldmappin), and because of the setting I will show you, I am placing the post in the #museum community.
Madame Tussauds Museum is located in the center of the city, very close to the central city square and the Museum of Torture, which I have already presented.
It is located in a building which, in addition to the ground floor, has three more floors and each floor has its own "setting".
We started in order, from the Medieval period of Prague, where the figures of various members of the royal family, an old court jester, famous scientists of the time, some figures from Czech mythology, various craftsmen...
As well as the figure of the most famous craftsman of Prague in the 15th century, Mister Hanuš, the Prague watchmaker and astrologer who made the famous Astromon Prague clock, are shown.
Legend has it that this famous watchmaker was blinded by the city authorities so that he would not make a similar watch for someone else.
And how can you talk about the Middle Ages and not mention the alchemist, Edward Kelley.
I didn't take any pictures of the nameplates, so now it's hard for me to remember which figure belongs to whom, next time I'll be smarter, at least for characters like this from the past 🙂
We continued on and reached the culture section.
Composers, writers, painters, scientists, on all sides figures of very famous characters from the past that I can now imagine in all the works I have heard about: Antonín Dvorzak, W.A. Mozart
or read their clasics: Franz Kafka and Karel Capek
and there is perhaps the greatest scientist of the 20th century, whose theories of relativity gave us a lot of headaches in schools: Albert Einstein
as well as two figures of spiritual people, one from Buddhism - Dalai Lama and the other from Christianity - Mother Teresa.
There is also a figure of a gentleman, an artist with a strangely shaped mustache - Salvador Dalí, whose museum we visited in Figueres last year.
After the old century and figures of people from culture and religion, we came across some world leaders who marked the 20th century, chancellors, prime ministers, military leaders, communists, Bolsheviks, but also some who will be remembered in history as the worst evil that happened to humanity.
In the room with them is a nice policeman with a closed eye. I'm the one without the uniform 😀
On the way to the rooms where there are figures of famous people from the world of music and film, we came across some statesmen.
Princess Diana, Barack Obama. George Bush, Bill Clinton.
Apart from the princess, these politicians are not my favorite.
Snd I don't even remember whose figures these are. Ivana Trump maybe? The one with the glasses looks like Woody Allen to me...
And after them, we come across music stars!
Along with their figures, I'll post some of the tracks that are my favorites, maybe not their best.
Elvis Presley
Suspicious Minds
Tina Turner
The best
Freddie Mercury
Show must go on
there are still many famous performers: Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Mick Jaeger, Lady Gaga, Bono...
I think the lady in Sinatra's company is a Czech singer, but I don't know her name.
And as a grand finale, we come across a room with actors...
They should not be excessively and specially presented.
Jack Nicholson, Taylor Lautner, Tom Cruise, Jean Paul Belmondo, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Daniel Radcliffe...
We had fun with their figures using some film props and full of impressions, satisfied, finished the tour of this interesting museum of wax figures.
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I've been to a couple of wax museums. They are a lot of fun and it's amazing how realistic some look. One could probably fool someone with a picture next to one, haha. Thanks for sharing 😎
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This is the only one I've been in ( that I could be this close to the figures). Literally, you have to touch some part of their body to make sure it's not real skin 😁
That's cool the ones I have visited you can get close to them but no touching.
I have no idea why, but I never had a wish to visit any Wax museum... Saw a lot of posts and photos, and it looks kind of creepy... 😂 Except the guy with the policeman... 🤣 That guy looks so real! 😂
It was creepy in a museum a few hundred meters away, the same wax figures, but a museum of torture.
Yeah, you mean this fat guy next to the policeman. that one is the right one 😀
I have lived in Prague all my life, but I have never visited this museum. Some of the mannequins look very realistic, others look more like caricatures.
Most of the people depicted had something to do with Prague. But a few not at all.
!HUG
I think this is more of an "international" setting, especially for characters from the second half of the 20th century.
It is not surprising that you did not visit this museum even though you lived in Prague. and I haven't visited all the museums in the city where I live 🫣
Sending you an Ecency curation vote!
Thanks 🙂
It's my pleasure!
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