Musee Conti - Wax Museum 2

by Kathleen K Parker

Title

Musee Conti - Wax Museum 2

Artist

Kathleen K Parker

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

From the website - www.neworleanswaxmuseum.com- comes
the following description of the museum and its figures: "Representing more than three yeas of careful research and painstaking craftsmanship, Musee Conti depicts the exciting history of New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory. There are 154 life-size figures sculpted in wax, and displayed in historically accurate settings. In addition to our historical exhibit, we also have a Haunted Dungeon.

These details may be of interest:

Ordinary beeswax is mixed with a secret chemical compound that hardens the material and increases its resistance to extremes of temperature. Wax, like human skin, is slightly translucent; the coloring is infused beneath the final layer, thus accounting for the uncanny similarity to human flesh.

Each strand of human hair - imported from Italy - is inserted separately with a special needle. This laborious process achieves the realism we seek. All male figures are given complete beards; if you look carefully at the clean-shaven figures you will see a faint stubble remaining on their chins.

Medical glass eyes are obtained from Germany, a country long famous for supremacy in optical glass.

The artistry of the sculptured heads creates as close a resemblance to the actual persons depicted as history has recorded, and as human skill can reproduce. It has been our policy to show these famous people as they appeared at the time of their greatest impact on the world, a point that should be remembered with living people portrayed in the Museum - they will age but the wax figures will not. Similarly, the size of the figures has been thoroughly researched, and is fully accurate. Sometimes people are astonished at the apparent smallness of some of the wax figurines. Apart from the fact that their immobility tends to suggest this illusion, it should be remembered that the human race has been steadily gaining in average stature throughout history, with the greatest gains recorded in the last hundred years.

For may centuries mankind has marveled at the eerie magic of the Wax Museum. In olden Babylon wax figures were known; Alexander the Great retained his own wax sculptor one hundred years before Christ, and the Romans commonly practiced the art. No fair in the medieval Europe was complete without its collection of figures. We believe that the Musee Conti Wax Museum is a worthy successor to this long and firmly rooted tradition."

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