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Salem Wax Museum
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5 reviews for Salem Wax Museum
If you are not from the surrounding area or have any knowledge of the witch trials Salem is a great place to spend the day. However, it is a tourist trap where people flock by the hundreds in the autumn season. Most of the highlights in the city focus on the same witch trial and try to retell it in several different ways. But when you know the basic story it get to be repetitive very quickly.
The Salem Wax Museum isn't an actual museum but just a large room with 10-12 displays. If you have already visited any of the other museums in town you"ll get the feeling you have seen all this before.
If you take your time, carefully study each exhibit at the end you would have spent a total of 15 minutes here! Then to get to your exit you must, of course, pass through the gift shop which is bigger than the museum. Don't worry if there is something you forgot to buy here one of Salem's other store will have it.
My opinion take a pass on the SWM. Not worth your time or money. FAIL.
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My family and I have a ritual. We visit the cool, old cemetery outside and then, hyperactively bring our cameras into the wax museum.
The wax statues definitely have a creepy quality about them. Their faces look bulbous and overly dramatic. In short, it's a great place to snap photos of yourself while contorting your own face into the most horrific of expressions.. wax statues in the background of said photos, naturally.
The museum is a one-room attraction. If you're looking to kill time, stop in. Once you leave the room filled with wax people, you descend down a flight of stairs to an activity area.
The activity area is good for kids. They supply black newsprint-quality paper and black crayons. Kids can do a rubbing of old tombstones to bring home--a neat (free) little souvenir. There's a generic build-a-bear station in the far corner, a wooden pirate cutout that's great for photos, and a rendering of an old wooden jail cell. My niece and I climbed in there and shut the door. There are no lights in there--it's creepy as hell!
There's also a gift shop just beyond the activity area with the predictable Salem t-shirts and assorted souvenirs.
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Do not expect much when you visit this place. The displays had misspellings and some of the wax statues were fairly amusing.
If you are pressed for time, skip this.
Ohhhh it's bad, real bad. If you want the "experience" of wasting your money in a one-room wax museum with awful, awful wax people, then go for it, but there are better ways to spend your money is Salem.
so this is how salem makes money: charge $12 a pop for a room full of wax statues and put a gift shop downstairs. the entire tour must have taken at least 3 minutes. if you've never been to this place, i'd say pass on the opportunity and go walk around in the old cemetary up a block for free.
