After four decades memorializing Silver Screen celebrities, the Hollywood Wax Museum has become the most visited tourist destination on the city's famed Hollywood Boulevard. Founded in 1965 by entrepreneur Spoony Singh, the destination boasts of being the only wax museum fully devoted to celebrities alone. To this day it remains a fixture of that little town in California known across the world.



As tourists enter the museum, they see not only intricately designed wax sculptures of the celebrities themselves; but each sculpture is found amidst a lifelike re-creation of the most important and cherished moment of each celebrity's career. Many of the sets are fully animated, so viewers have the ability almost to ?interact? with the sculpture of, say, John Wayne in a dust-ridden Western, or Charlie Chaplin goofing in a mass-production factory.

In all, the museum features over 180 sculptures of famed Hollywood figures. Classic movie stars, current Hollywood ?icons,? and reproductions of the main celebrities and sets from the Top 100 Movies of all time. Included in the latter are King Kong with Jack Black and Naomi Watts, Titanic with Leo DiCaprio, Forrest Gump with Tom Hanks, Mission Impossible II with Tom Cruise, Terminator 2 with Gov. Schwarzenegger, Spiderman with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. The museum also includes reproductions of television personalities like the Ninja Turtles and Mario.

The famed lobby of the Hollywood Wax Museum was renovated in 2006, as was many of the interior settings. In honor of the museum's 40th anniversary, its well-known neon sign was renovated to include over 1,500 incandescent light bulbs and almost a quarter mile of neon.

The Kuvera Partners, which today owns and operates the museum, have built sister museums in Branson, Missouri (1985) and in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (2007).