Edinburgh Wax Museum

Edinburgh Wax Museum was a short-lived but important tourist attraction on the Royal Mile in the late 20th century.

It had been built in 1813 as the Commercial Bank, designed by James Gillespie Graham,[1] replacing the New Assembly Rooms of 1766.

[4] (taken from contemporary guide books)[5] William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, James VI, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips, Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Henry Raeburn, Adam Smith, Robert Adam, Lord Byron, Lord Cockburn, John Loudon McAdam, David Hume, James Watt, Thomas Telford, John Buchan, J. M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, St. Margaret of Scotland, John Knox, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, Sir Alexander Fleming, James Young Simpson, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Alec Douglas-Home, John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronnie Corbett, Billy Connolly, Lulu, Moira Anderson, Sean Connery, Andrew Cruickshank, Harry Lauder, William McGonagall, Peter Manuel, Madeleine Smith, Deacon Brodie, Sawney Bean, Major Weir, Fredric March (playing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), Lon Chaney Jr. as the Werewolf.

The Massacre of Glencoe, Kate Barlass, the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Battle of Culloden, the Murder of Lord Darnley, the Murder of David Riccio, Bonnie Prince Charlie escaping dressed as Flora Macdonald's maid, Samuel Johnson with James Boswell, David Livingstone meeting H. M. Stanley, Queen Victoria with John Brown, The Witch Pricker.

Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Toad of Toad Hall, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, Macbeth, Alice In Wonderland with the Duchess and Cheshire Cat, Long John Silver with Jim Hawkins, Ben Gunn and Captain Smollet, Peter Pan and Captain Hook, Peter Rabbit E.T., Mr. Spock, Prince Charles and Lady Diana