Hollywood Wax Museum

Love this place and they were kind enough to donate tickets for our teacher’s appreciation event.
Thanks again
Nick Patterson

The Wax Museum is good old school fun. And a little bit creepy, which makes it even more fun! Be sure to take your out of town relatives. They love this stuff!

Went to this museum for the first time. And I wasn’t as disappointed, but only with a few of the wax statues. I feel like some of the wax statues weren’t put enough effort. Like Denzel Washington, he didn’t look like him at all or Justin Bieber, like I thought it was some other dude. But overall it is very enjoyable. The ticket was $ 20 but for another $ 10 you can go to the other 2 museums that are located across the street. But to be honest, the other 2 don’t come close as to the wax museum and it’s quality.

Just wanted to give a shout-​out to the Hollywood Wax Museum! We’ve been asking around town for donations for our nonprofit fundraiser and everyone we’ve encountered here has been extremely professional, friendly and generous. Thank you!

I’ve never been to a wax museum. Since we were visiting from out of state it was a must for us. I’m glad we did. We had a lot of fun taking pictures with the props and the stars. They could use an update with the backgrounds. Other than that it’s a fun place to pass time. We were laughing from beginning to end.

In all honesty there isn’t much left to love about Hollywood Blvd. I’m not into celebrities at all, however the wax museum was interesting. Some didn’t look like who they claim to be but many were eerily realistic. The friendliness of the staff is the main reason I gave 4 stars.

I have wanted to check this museum out for years… and just never made the drive to Hollywood to do so. A friend and I purchased tickets for three museums at once, for a discounted rate. I dont think I would have been happy at any of the three if I paid full price.
There is no parking specifically for this museum, and it is on Hollywood Blvd so if you are not familiar with this area, it can be challenging. I was able to find a parking lot diagonally across from this location, actually on Highland — that was $ 15 for all day. I did that, as I planned to be in the area a lot longer than I was. I stayed under 2 hours so it really wasnt worth it, but oh well. There are meters directly across the street, I believe a few of them, however I didnt see them and I still dont fully understand exactly how they worked. You are better off if you take public transportation here, I think — or if you are visiting and staying local somewhere and can walk. I am not used to driving in a city, so maybe thats my issue, but I found it to be a serious cluster and very unenjoyable, lol
This museum was really cool, and it was not busy when we went, so no one was around us, or rushing us to take our pictures and move on, so that was nice.
My biggest complaint here was a lot of the statues dont look like the star. Maybe they are really old, Im not sure. One that comes to mind for sure was Pink. I was very disappointed in that one.
Also, it seems their eyes are looking elsewhere, so when you take pictures, they are not looking at the camera, which is a little awkward. Maybe you really have to spend the time to see where they are looking and position yourself, but that seems like a lot of work.
They do have prop stations, and a few of the statues have props, like Taylor Swift and Hugh Hefner.
All in all, I had a great time, but its definitely something I can cross off my list as being done, and not needing to do again.
The two employees working at the front desk Monday morning were helpful and nice.

This place other than the horror sections almost 95% of the wax figures don’t look like the person they’re suppose to be. There was even some wax figures I couldn’t recognize. The wax figures should’ve been placed in settings of movies they were famous in, since some of the backdrops were random. I wouldn’t waste my money going here again.

I hate their new aggressive gorilla marketing!!! As soon as I get to the cashier she tells me it’s $ 30 for all three museums… when I kept asking how much just for the Wax Museum… she kept going back to the $ 30 for all three speech… dude I just want to go here… no time to see the rest… so I don’t care.
I am happy Michael Jackson is still here… he is the only reason I came.

Went here in combo with the Guinness World Record museum across the street. We won tickets at a silent auction, but otherwise might not have paid to visit. Thankfully we went to the wax museum after Guinness so our expectations were set VERY low.
We spent about 15 minutes wandering through looking at the wax figures. Some are quite impressive while others are a bit funky looking. I’d probably go here again if I had a friend who was interested. At least we were entertained walking through! And we had the place to ourselves which was fun.

So much fun! Most of the stars looked very much like the real person, some not so much! Love that you can get up close and personal and take photos! My favorite would have to be Taylor swift it honestly looked exactly like her! Total time it took us was about 40 minutes, we also did the package deal where for $ 30 you got the wax museum, ripleys believe it or not and Guinness world records. I really enjoy this the wax museum but for the others I could have passed on. Lots of interesting things but just wasn’t what I wasn’t into.

It was a last minute little looksie an hour before closing and I had to leave back out the next morning. The wax museum has improved since I was a youngster back in the day, but some of their wax figures looked nothing like the actual artist. Nonetheless, I really had a fun time with the props and being able to take pics with the figures. It’ll be much cheaper to get the 3 museums for 29.99 than to get one for the 17.99 (wax museum price) but unfortunately we didn’t have the time to attend all 3.

I’ve lived in LA my entire life. This past summer I was looking for something fun to do. I realized I had never been the the Wax Museum and Ripley’s Believe it or Not.
I ended up getting the VIP Combo pack which admits you to the Wax Museum, Ripley’s and Guinness World Records Museum all in 1 day. If you think it’s a lot for 1 day, it definitely is not. I finished all three in under 3 hours.
The Wax Museum felt very out dated, much like the other 2 places I visited that day. They didn’t have any recent movie scenes or newer stars. The whole museum focused on older celebrities and scenes from the early 90s.
One thing I did like was that there are opportunities to take the perfect picture with a wax figure. The wax figure is set up so that the entire background looks like a scene from the movie so if you stand it the correct spot and angle your camera just right, you can make it look like the the real thing.
I probably won’t go back unless they do some updates on their wax figures. I’m glad I didn’t buy a ticket for just this place, I finished the entire museum in about 30 minutes.

I’ve never been to a wax museum but this place was very neat! The admission wasnt too bad compared to other wax museums on the strip. The wax figures themselves looked life like but a handful looked nothing like who they were claiming to be. There is a section dedicated to horror movie which is like going into a haunted house. It gave my sister and I a good fright when we walked through.
Some wax figures come with props that you can wear too and be apart of their little scene. Overall, the wax museum was a lot of fun and there are lots of chances for photo ops so don’t forget to bring your camera!

I don’t have any other wax museum experiences to contrast my review but this was not what I expected to see. It was an experience and now I can say that I’ve been there and done that. Pro-​Tip: Purchase the 3 attraction pass and you’ll get entry into the Hollywood Wax Museum, the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum and the Guinness Book of World Records Museum and have 3 days to use your passes. The standard price for one person to visit one attraction is $ 16 and the 3 attraction pass costs $ 32 so it’s basically buy 2 get 1 free.
I unfortunately didn’t have the time to visit all three attractions so we chose the one we were standing in front of which was the Hollywood wax museum. The first thing that I noticed was that the celebrities did look like themselves but then again they didn’t. It’s like they put detail in them but just enough. I really think that they could step it up a bit and really make the figures look more like the people. Some of the figures were just standing around and other figures were the celebs dressed in some of their memorable acting roles. I would much rather have just seen the celebs in their natural looking form. They have a horror movie exhibit and it is pretty cool and the new zombie feature is awesome even though it has nothing to do with wax whatsoever. The space could be used better throughout the museum as well. Some figures have an entire room to themselves while other figures are stacked on top of each other. They have a TV that was showing how the figures are made but it was very hard to hear due to the other noise that is present in the museum so we didn’t really take in the show. I don’t know if it reveals whether or not they figures match the height and body type of the actual humans but some of the figures seemed really off. Vin Diesel was too skinny and so was Ben Affleck. Jennifer Aniston barely looked like Jennifer Aniston and there were two figures that I couldn’t even recognize. Eminem should have been easy to recognize but my daughter had to tell me who he was. They have a figure of Dictator Obama posed so that you can snap a photo of you shaking hands with him but I hate that they even have him there at all. Call it personal preference but I can’t stand to see that guy’s face anywhere. Overall, the figures could be better detailed. I’d like to see them as they are not how they looked in some movie and a better thought out layout would be nice too.
Oh well, at least I’ve had the experience and I’ll have to do it at least once more when I take my wife and other children to Hollywood next June.
If you haven’t been, I would suggest going just so you can say you’ve been. I will definitely check out the competition next year too.
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To begin, the service here is amazing, that made the experience the best. We were visiting and Jesse was so helpful. He is patient, attentive, and very humorous. Thank you for making our experience so much more fun, we’ll definitely come back again!

Very short tour, and the figures don’t resemble the characters very well. A lot of people (including us) were asking who some of them were.
Definitely not worth the time and money for us. Very disappointing.

It was my first visit to the Wax Museum along with my boyfriend and I very much enjoyed all the Wax pieces (thank you Tonia!!!). It’s probably the closest I’ll ever get to any of those celebrities so it was a little magical haha. I enjoyed reading the little commentaries along the way.
The location was very neat and bathrooms seemed well kept.

I just visited today with my boyfriend and we had so much fun! All of the celebrities look freakishly real! My favorites were Hugh Hefner (who I just so happened to hop into bed with). George Clooney, Forrest Gump and Lucille Ball !
All in all it was a really fun time and I would recommend it to anyone, and would love to go back and take a second trip !

Oh, it was such a fun Valentine’s Day doing old-​timey Old Hollywood things like throw back a couple o’ old fashioneds at Musso and Frank down the street and then run slightly inebriated into the Hollywood Wax Museum. We giggled the whole time walking through the museum, which took fifteen minutes, and indulged in lots of photo ops (favorites: the regal Morgan Freeman and an especially dashing Obama).
The horror chamber’s entertaining enough, but the really scary moments came outside the horror chamber where contemporary movie stars like Brad Pitt and George Clooney stood around all casual and waxy, just making their tremendous presences known in what I’m calling the uncanny valley of the museum – they’re that creepy. Would we ever go back? What for? There are myriad other touristic activities to be had on an L.A. staycation. Once is enough to forever seal our V-​day trip in our hearts.