Mother's Wax Museum
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]
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Location | New Town, Greater Kolkata[1], West Bengal, India |
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Website | www |
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Mother's Wax Museum
Featured wax sculptures
Political
- B. R. Ambedkar
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Pranab Mukherjee
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Spirituality
Social
- Raja Rammohan Roy
- Sister Nivedita
- Mother Teresa
Literature
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Sarat Chandra Chatterjee
- Kazi Nazrul Islam
Science
- Jagadish Chandra Bose
- Satyendranath Bose
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Albert Einstein
Music
- Manna Dey
- Pandit Ravi Shankar
- Hemanta Mukherjee
- Kishore Kumar
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Michael Jackson
Bollywood
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Mithun Chakraborty
- Shah Rukh Khan
- Salman Khan (as Inspector Chulbul Pandey)
- Prabhas (as Baahubali)
- Anushka Shetty (as Devasena)
Tollywood
Hollywood
- Tom Cruise
- Brad Pitt
- Angelina Jolie
- Bruce Willis
- Nicole Kidman
- Daniel Craig
- Julia Roberts
- Bruce Lee
- Audrey Hepburn
- Johnny Depp (as Captain Jack Sparrow)
- Rowan Atkinson (as Mr. Bean)
- Daniel Radcliff (as Harry Potter)
gollark: It's a bit repetitive.
gollark: We need some sort of list of good spirit quotes.
gollark: It might be more efficient (for me (if I could actually be bothered)) to just use patreon for support, except I think they *do* take a significant cut of things and are bad for small-amount-per-month donations.
gollark: If I had money, and some need for T-shirts, and could buy them in the UK, I... might buy those (not sure where I was going with this).
gollark: "ah yes, you can draw this squiggly line, you are CLEARLY the right person"
References
- "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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