Royal London Wax Museum |
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visit to the Royal London Wax Museum is a journey into the pages of time. The
museum documents a myriad of events through some three hundred historical
personages from early to contemporary times. Through its objects, artifacts,
likenesses of pivotal personages, scenarios and multi-media exhibitions, all
visitorswill have a meaningful opportunity to see history come alive. This
museum is an important educational resource.Royal London Wax Museum originally opened 1961 in a street level location of the Crystal Garden at the corner of Belleville and Douglas. It was at a time when the Crystal Garden housed Canada's largest salt water swimming pool. With floor space of about six thousand square feet and initially displaying some fifty wax figures, this attraction established North America's first exhibition of Tussaud wax figures from England. North America's first Josephine Tussaud wax museum remains the "flagship" establishment on this continent, and is a major contributor to the City of Victoria's image and reputation as "A Little Bit of Olde England." In 1969 the Museum principals secured a lease for the current site: the former terminal building for CP Steamships that with advent of B.C. Ferries had been unused for several years. By Christmas of 1970 the expanded world of wax had opened without fanfare, with much fine-tuning left to be done. In April of 1971 with “all proper and correct” Canada's 13th Prime Minister, the Right Honourable John George Diefenbaker, officiated at the Museum's grand re-opening. 470 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia 1 (250) 388 - 4461 website: http://www.waxmuseum.bc.ca |
