Museo de Cera, Mexico City

The Wax museum of Mexico City lies in the Calle Londres and features a collection of life size wax figures of famous Mexicans and a horror show. The Wax museum is next to the Ripley’s believe it or not Museum. It contains over 160 wax works and is considered to be one of the best wax museums in the world.

The Mexico City Wax Museum is a franchisee of the Wax Museum in London. It opened to the public in 1979, housed in the building designed by the well known Mexican architect Antonio Rivas Mercado between 1900 and 1904. The concrete structure has an art nouveau style with vitreous ceramic tiles decorating the façade.

The wax museum has separate rooms for different personalities. The displayed figures include royalty, historic individuals, Mexican movie stars, local millionaires, religious personalities like Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa, sports persons, literary figures such as Miguel de Cervantes and literary characters from Don Quixote. There is a small theater with an animated singing figure of Placido Domingo. The basement has a horror show with real life moving figures of cannibals. Visitors can see animated tortures inflicted on heathens during the Spanish Inquisition.