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{{Infobox museum<br />
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| location = [[New Town, Kolkata|New Town]], [[Kolkata Metropolitan Area|Greater Kolkata]],<ref>{{cite news |title=North 24 Parganas district|url=https://www.wbtourismgov.in/destination/district/north_24_parganas#lb7}}</ref> West Bengal, [[India]]<br />
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'''Mother's Wax Museum''' is a wax museum located in Action Area - II of [[New Town, Kolkata]], [[India]] on the 5th and 6th floors of the [[West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation]] building.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://motherswaxmuseum.in/about-us/|accessdate =18 July 2019}}</ref> Established in November 2014, it contains wax statues of more than 50 personalities, including statues of Bollywood actors [[Amitabh Bachchan]], [[Shah Rukh Khan]] and [[Salman Khan]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Country's first wax museum opens up in Kolkata|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/440804/country039s-first-wax-museum-opens.html|accessdate=4 November 2015|date=14 November 2014}}</ref> The museum has been named after [[Mother Teresa]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan's wax statues at Kolkata's wax museum|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Amitabh-Bachchan-and-Shah-Rukh-Khans-wax-statues-at-Kolkatas-wax-museum/articleshow/45022680.cms|accessdate=4 November 2015|date=3 November 2014}}</ref><br />
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==Featured wax sculptures==<br />
===Sports===<br />
* [[Lionel Messi]]<br />
* [[Diego Maradona]]<br />
* [[Sourav Ganguly]]<br />
* [[Kapil Dev]]<br />
* [[Sachin Tendulkar]]<br />
* [[Virat Kohli]]<br />
===Political===<br />
* [[B. R. Ambedkar]]<br />
* [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]]<br />
* [[Pranab Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]]<br />
===Spirituality===<br />
* [[Ramakrishna]]<br />
* [[Sarada Devi]]<br />
* [[Swami Vivekananda]]<br />
* [[Sri Aurobindo]]<br />
===Social===<br />
* [[Raja Rammohan Roy]]<br />
* [[Sister Nivedita]]<br />
* [[Mother Teresa]]<br />
===Literature===<br />
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]<br />
* [[Sarat Chandra Chatterjee]]<br />
* [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]]<br />
===Science===<br />
* [[Jagadish Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[Satyendranath Bose]]<br />
* [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]]<br />
* [[Albert Einstein]]<br />
===Music===<br />
* [[Manna Dey]]<br />
* [[Pandit Ravi Shankar]]<br />
* [[Hemanta Mukherjee]]<br />
* [[Kishore Kumar]]<br />
* [[Lata Mangeshkar]]<br />
* [[Michael Jackson]]<br />
===Bollywood===<br />
* [[Amitabh Bachchan]]<br />
* [[Mithun Chakraborty]]<br />
* [[Shah Rukh Khan]]<br />
* [[Salman Khan]] (as [[Inspector Chulbul Pandey]])<br />
* [[Prabhas]] (as [[Amarendra Baahubali|Baahubali]])<br />
* [[Anushka Shetty]] (as [[Devasena]])<br />
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===Tollywood===<br />
* [[Uttam Kumar]]<br />
* [[Suchitra Sen]]<br />
* [[Satyajit Ray]]<br />
===Hollywood===<br />
* [[Tom Cruise]]<br />
* [[Brad Pitt]]<br />
* [[Angelina Jolie]]<br />
* [[Bruce Willis]]<br />
* [[Nicole Kidman]]<br />
* [[Daniel Craig]]<br />
* [[Julia Roberts]]<br />
* [[Bruce Lee]]<br />
* [[Audrey Hepburn]]<br />
* [[Johnny Depp]] (as [[Captain Jack Sparrow]])<br />
* [[Rowan Atkinson]] (as [[Mr. Bean]])<br />
* [[Daniel Radcliff]] (as [[Harry Potter]])<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{official|http://www.motherswaxmuseum.in/}}<br />
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{{coord missing|West Bengal}}<br />
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[[Category:Wax museums in India]]<br />
[[Category:Museums in Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Museums established in 2014]]<br />
[[Category:2014 establishments in West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:New Town, Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Tourist attractions in North 24 Parganas district]]</div>
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