Meet These Folks at the Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf

Get tickets to visit the Wax Museum at Fishermans Wharf.

Enjoy the amazing wax figures. As one of the world's largest wax museums, the fully restored San Francisco attraction continues to present all aspects of mankind's history.

See the ignoble Chamber of Horrors, the inspiring Hall of Religion, the historic Library of U.S. Presidents, the glamour of Hollywood, the splendor of King Tut's Tomb and the unique Palace of Living Art, where the world's most famous masters and their masterpieces come to life through the magic of wax artistry.

And now, on with the show! We invite you to mingle with the most fabulous, famous and infamous collection of personalities ever assembled under one roof in this Amazing World of Wax.

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Wax Figure Population
(subject to change)

TIME CHAMBER: 1 Cleopatra (Liz Taylor), 2 Mayor Willie Brown, 3 President George W. Bush, 4 Norman Rockwell

TITANIC: 5 Leonardo DiCaprio, 6 Kate Winslet

HUMANITARIANS: 7 Benjamin Franklin, 8 Nelson Mandela, 9 Martin Luther King, Jr., 10 Eleanor Roosevelt, 11 Mohandas Gandhi, 12 Albert Schweitzer

AXIS GANG: 13 Hideki Tojo, 14 Adolph Hitler, 15 Benito Mussoli

WWII GENERALS: 16 Sir Winston Churchill, 17 Charles DeGaull, 18 Douglas MacArthur, 19 Harry S. Truman, 20 Franklin Roosevelt

DICTATORS: 21 Fidel Castro, 22 Saddam Hussein, 23 Napoleon Bonaparte

ROYALTY: 24 Princess Grace, 25 Prince Rainier, 26 H.R.H. Prince Philip, 27 Queen Elizabeth II, 28 Emperor Hirohito, 29 H.R.H. Prince Charles

VIXENS: 30 Salome, 31 Marie Antointte, 32 Lucretia Borgia, 33 Jezebel, 34 Mata Hari

SCIENTISTS: 35 Bill Gates, 36 Sigmund Freud, 37 Charles Darwin, 38 Albert Einstein, 39 Galileo Galilei, 40 Sir Isaac Newton

ARTISTS: 41 (Artist's Model - Brigette Bardot), 42 (Artist's Model - La Source), 43 Enrico Caruso, 44 William Shakespeare, 45 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 46 Ernest Hemingway, 47 Mark Twain, 48 Ludwig Van Beethoven, 49 Henri DeToulouse-Lautrec, 50 Rembrandt Van Rijn, 51 Andy Warhol, 52 James McNeil Whistler, 53 Salvador Dali

WORLD LEADERS 54 Mao Tse-Tung 55 John Major 56 Mikhail Gorbachev 57 Nikita Khruschev

GREAT CONFLICT 58 Ulysses S. Grant 59 Abraham Lincoln 60 Robert E. Lee

PRESIDENTS 61 Theodore Roosevelt 62 Lyndon B. Johnson 63 Jacqueline Kennedy 64 John F. Kennedy 65 Thomas Jefferson 66 Richard M. Nixon 67 Ronald Reagan 68 William J. Clinton 69 George Bush 70 Gerald R. Ford 71 George Washington 72 James Earl Carter 73 Herbert Hoover 74 Andrew Jackson

POPES 75 Pope John Paul II 76 Pope Paul VI

HINDUISM 77 - 81 Bathers

JUDAISM 82 Moses

TAOISM 83 Lao Tze

BUDDHISM 84 Prince Siddhartha Gautma ? The Buddha

CONFUCIANISM 85 Confucius 86 -89 Students

SERMON ON THE MOUNT 90 Jesus 91 - 107 Followers

THE LAST SUPPER 108 Jesus 109 Bartholomew 110 James the Lesser 111 Andrew 112 Simon Peter 113 Judas 114 John 115 Thomas 116 James the Greater 117 Philip 118 Mathew 119 Thaddues 120 Simon

THE PALACE OF LIVING ART 121 Pinky 122 Blue Boy 123 Vincent Van Gogh 124 Portrait of the Artist?s Mother 125 Leonardo Da Vinci 126 Mona Lisa 127 Man in the Golden Helmet 128 Laughing Cavalier 129 American Gothic Woman 130 American Gothic Man 131 Grande Odalisque

KING TUT'S TOMB 132 Ankhesenamen 133 King Tutankhamen 134 High Priest 135 The Boy King 136 Howard Carter 137 Lord Carnarvon

CHAMBER OF HORRORS 138 Elvira 139 Electrocution Victim 140 Algerian Hook 141 Freddy Kruger 142 Leatherface 143 Man in the Iron Cage 144 Iron Maiden 145 - 146 Ghouls Feast Diners 147 Sawed in Half 148 The Crypt Keeper 149 Phantom of the Opera 150 Heritic's Fork 151 Impaled 152 Dracula 153 Dracula?s Victim 154 - 163 Tortured Heads 164 Frankenstein?s Monster 165 Boris Karloff 166 Mummyman 167 Werewolf 168 Judas Cradle 169 Anton S. Levey 170 Beetlejuice 171 Tree Torture 172 - 174 Grave Robbers & Corpse

SPORTS 175 Pat Summeral 176 John Madden 177 Joe Montana 178 Steve Young 179 Tiger Woods 180 Joe DiMaggio 181 Willie Mays 182 Max Baer 183 Joe Lewis 184 Michael Jordan 185 Mohammad Ali

SCIENCE FICTION 186 The Alien 187 Christopher Reeve

AVIATORS 188 Neil Armstrong 189 Amelia Earhart 190 Charles Lindbergh

GLAMOUR GIRLS 191 Marilyn Monroe 192 Mae West 193 Marlene Dietrich 194 Sharon Stone 195 Barbra Streisand 196 Jodie Foster 197 Bette Davis 198 Lucile Ball

BACKSTAGE 199 Sammy Davis, Jr. 200 Lawrence Welk 201 Bing Crosby 202 Frank Sinatra

THE OSMONDS 203 Marie Osmond 204 Donny Osmond

HOW WAX IS MADE 205 George Burns (clay) 206 Nicky Hilton (half Painted) 207 Ronald Reagan

HOLLYWOOD HUNKS 208 Al Pacino 209 Marlon Brando 210 Clint Eastwood 211 Robert DeNiro 212 Humphrey Bogart 213 Steve McQueen 214 Mel Gibson 215 Burt Reynolds 216 Eddie Murphy

RAMBO 217 Sylvester Stallone

ENTERTAINERS 218 John Lennon 219 Elvis Presley 220 Shirley Temple 221 Will Smith 222 Michael Jackson 223 Liza Minnelli

GONE WITH THE WIND 224 Vivien Leigh 225 Clark Gable

WESTERN 226 Gary Cooper 227 Chuck Norris 228 John Wayne 229 Paul Newman 230 Robert Redford

COMEDY 231 Mike Meyers 232 Phyllis Diller 233 George Burns 234 Bob Hope 235 Charlie Chaplin 236 Woody Allen 237 W.C. Fields 238 Stan Laurel 239 Oliver Hardy

THE WIZARD OF OZ 240 Toto 241 Judy Garland 242 Ray Bolger 243 Jack Haley 244 Bert Lahr

How Wax Figures are Made

Creating a display in the Wax Museum requires a team of artisans, working in concert. The "star" of the team is the Sculptor, who must posses an artist's critical eye and steady hand, an inventor's imagination and patience, plus a variety of handyman skills.

The Sculptor begins this painstaking project armed with photographs and actual measurements of the subject and a common lump of clay. Employing his unique talent for capturing the look and feel of life, a perfectly proportioned likeness begins to emerge.

The finished clay head is used to form a plaster mold. A molten mixture of natural and petroleum-based waxes is carefully poured and swirled inside the plaster mold, layer upon layer, until it is evenly coated with a two inch thickness of wax.

While the Sculptor anxiously waits for this mixture to thoroughly harden, he sets about creating the accompanying body parts necessary for the completed work....hands, arms and sometimes entire torsos, such as the distinctive muscular body of Sylvester Stallone's "Rambo" character. With the same eye to detail and precise proportion, each part must be a mirror-image of the subject, right down to the fingernails.

When the plaster mold encasing the head is carefully opened, a rough waxen image is revealed. Now the Sculptor sets to work on the intricate refinements and enhancements that give the work its uncanny life-like quality.

A special needle is used for the tedious, time consuming job of inserting the human hair---one strand at a time., including eye brows, lashes and any facial hair that is required.

Next, medical glass eyes are secured in place and porcelain teeth are positioned one by one in an attempt to duplicate the subject's actual dental characteristics.

Finally, thin layers of translucent paint are applied, creating skin tone while allowing the wax material to radiate through giving the image the look of life. The finished head is placed onto a life-size body, which has been constructed with precise measurements and any accompanying body parts are finished and attached.

At this point in the project, the cost of producing this single wax figure is estimated between $10,000 to $25,000, depending on the complexity, characteristics and research material available on the subject.

While the sculpting process was underway, other team members have been busily preparing their part of the show. Normally, a talented seamstress would be hard at work creating a custom-made costume to exact specifications. In some instances, however, contemporary celebrities may donate their own clothing for their wax likeness to wear, such as Joe Montana's '49er uniform.

Meanwhile, Craftsmen have been busy designing and building just the right setting to enhance the pose, position and character of the wax figure. Appropriate props and furnishings are added to provide realism and interest to the scene. Great attention is given to placement, color and intensity of the lights in order to show the work to its best advantage.

The figure is assembled, dressed and final adjustments are made to bring out the subtle life-like qualities. The finished work is placed in the scene and posed precisely. One final adjustment to the lighting to enhance the overall effect and the display is ready to be unveiled.

The Wax Museum endeavors to portray a wide variety of world-renown personalities, immortalized at that time in their lives when their impact was the greatest. As you enjoy our Four Floors of unique exhibits, keep in mind that wax figures do not age as their human counterparts may have done. You are seeing them today, frozen in time, just as they looked at the peak of their notoriety.

Tour does not provide hotel pick-up. Please reserve online, or call us toll-free at 800-410-8233.