Wax or not, these characters are probably the most famous people in...

I met the other day with a friend from high school (now it's a serious long-time acquaintance), who lives and works in the Czech Republic. He moved there 15 years ago and since then we rarely see each other, but every time he comes to Serbia.
In addition to reminiscing about our previous years together, we also talk about some trips, interesting things we saw, about music, film, politics...
The glasses of beer we empty, everyone was heard 🙂

And so, we mentioned the movie Top Gun, and Tom Cruise. that he would mention how Tom looks, the same as 30 years ago.
Like a doll that never ages, like a wax figure.

He tells me, he was in Prague and saw the display of the Madame Tussauds museum, where Tom's replica was placed in the film section.

I smiled and remembered my visit to that same museum 7 years ago.

I looked at a few pictures in his phone and tried to remember them, to compare with the pictures from my archive.
I couldn't recognize the stage set and the costumes of some of the figures (they are probably from the new movies), but they are almost all the figures I have seen too.

And so, our conversation about the film, led me to remember the trip to Prague (this Thursday #tbt tag goes for the sake of memory), the location of Madame Tussauds Museum (which I will post with #worldmappin), and because of the setting I will show you, I am placing the post in the #museum community.

Madame Tussauds Museum is located in the center of the city, very close to the central city square and the Museum of Torture, which I have already presented.
It is located in a building which, in addition to the ground floor, has three more floors and each floor has its own "setting".

We started in order, from the Medieval period of Prague, where the figures of various members of the royal family, an old court jester, famous scientists of the time, some figures from Czech mythology, various craftsmen...

As well as the figure of the most famous craftsman of Prague in the 15th century, Mister Hanuš, the Prague watchmaker and astrologer who made the famous Astromon Prague clock, are shown.

Legend has it that this famous watchmaker was blinded by the city authorities so that he would not make a similar watch for someone else.
And how can you talk about the Middle Ages and not mention the alchemist, Edward Kelley.

I didn't take any pictures of the nameplates, so now it's hard for me to remember which figure belongs to whom, next time I'll be smarter, at least for characters like this from the past 🙂

We continued on and reached the culture section.

Composers, writers, painters, scientists, on all sides figures of very famous characters from the past that I can now imagine in all the works I have heard about: Antonín Dvorzak, W.A. Mozart

or read their clasics: Franz Kafka and Karel Capek

and there is perhaps the greatest scientist of the 20th century, whose theories of relativity gave us a lot of headaches in schools: Albert Einstein

as well as two figures of spiritual people, one from Buddhism - Dalai Lama and the other from Christianity - Mother Teresa.

There is also a figure of a gentleman, an artist with a strangely shaped mustache - Salvador Dalí, whose museum we visited in Figueres last year.

After the old century and figures of people from culture and religion, we came across some world leaders who marked the 20th century, chancellors, prime ministers, military leaders, communists, Bolsheviks, but also some who will be remembered in history as the worst evil that happened to humanity.