Reviews of Salem Wax Museum (Museum)

Jacob H.

Really cool life-sized was figures! They were a little creepy, but they were depicting a very interesting part of history! 4/5 - Would go again!

Alex Flores

Not at all scary but the people are great

Mitanshi jain

Not worth the price of $10 per person for a tiny floor of wax figures.

Marc Orenberg

Very interesting, it features many of the people involved in the Salem witch trials, and tells their stories. The museum is a bit smaller than I expected it to be, though.

Richard Lawwill

Awesome place

Sunit Trehan

Good... Not great

Ivan Cruz

Of course don't compare to other wax museums but.....geeze a waste of time and $$

maryellen duren

Enjoyed our visit, very small yet informative! My children enjoyed and liked the coloring area in the gift shop. Price isn’t bad although it would be nice if the basement attraction was included in the fee due to the small size. Would recommend regardless

Brandy Anglin

Great place to visit

Ashley Honeycutt

Neat!

Scott Fabel

Fun night out in Salem

Aida Gomes

Small museum. Can be seen all in a matter of 15 mins. Was simple and easy to get in and out of.

Kimberly Fowler

Very interesting and learned alot about the Hysteria and the Salem witch trials.

Trevor 1776

I had a great time coming go once a year to Salem always end up coming again to this place .

Adri Cowan

Definitely a tourist trap! If you're going to hit up a museum while you're in Salem, go to the Salem Witch Museum and skip this one. It's literally just poorly-crafted wax figures of colonial people.

Kimberly Lanzillo

Complete waste of time and money. It is small, like ten minutes to read everything and look at all the "exhibits". The wax figures are extremely old, many are missing parts. Overall a complete disappointment. If I could rate zero I would, this attraction isn't even educational.

Female DallasTx

If you want a voodoo doll purchase one here. I'd visited most of the witch stores in Salem and none had a real voodoo doll except for this store. The staff of girls who work there are crazy. They talk out loud about their boyfriend problems and they talk badly about their coworkers. I've never seen so much envy between employees. It's a great little store except for the background noise of the employees bad mouthing each other. They need to play a bit of pagan/folk/witch music in the store. It will create the Salem black magic ambience most people expect in Salem. This store has so much potential because of its location to the cemetery out back. If you walk outside towards the back of the store you'll come upon the cemetery that dates back to the 1600s and there you'll find buried one of the original Mayflower passengers. Who is the owner? You might consider playing spooky background music in the store. It's what we tourists sort of expect in Salem. If you give the tourists what they want they are sure to buy more items from your store. You might also consider speaking to your employees about not gossiping when customers enter the store. The girls up front huddle at the register yapping about their personal business instead of welcoming the customers to the store.

Diane Derobbio

I loved it

jason fisher

Not worth $2 each let alone $10 each. Wax museum and haunted house are very small and not many props at all. Everything could fit in the area the size of half a regulation basketball court.

Sarah Garvey

The Salem Wax Museum, which looks like it has a lot of potential from the outside amongst many other exciting places along historic Derby Street in Downtown Salem, has definitely seen better days. This might be an okay place to take little kids where it might seem like a big exciting attraction to them but for anyone else it's really just a rundown, small, overpriced disappointment. Also it's honestly rather boring and there is absolutely no excitement or surprises during the entire mundane experience. As far as it being overpriced, you are better off to get the package deal where are you can see three attractions for a discounted total price. However, The Salem Wax Museum should honestly be your last priority on the list to see. The gift shop consists of mostly cheesy, overpriced, stereotypical, cheap looking things from the "Witch City". When you're done make sure to check out the old burial ground behind the museum and behind Beer Works. This is absolutely worth seeing and you can walk around for free! Also there is a memorial to many of the witches who were hung right next to the cemetery. This is an amazing place for beautiful photo opportunities. Honestly if you want to have a much more unique and worthwhile experience you should head down towards the pier / waterfront and go exploring amongst the multitude of unique shops where you can find things from handmade jewelry to all kinds of eclectic items that you'll never find anywhere else. It's in this area that you'll find the real souvenirs and gifts everyone will appreciate and which are not cheap mass-produced garbage. One of the most popular places in this area is Laurie Cabot's shop where you can get very unique items and even a reading from herself personally, for a look into your future...

Amanda Purdy

Realist, clean, friendly staff

Anna Rathbun

A lot of fun and very nicely done.

jess paiva

Cute little town. Fun day trip around halloween

Rodney Motta - REALTOR

Great walk through the history of Salem.

Kayla Rodriguez

History was good, but figures are clearly super old and so is the building. It just all seemed a bit boring. Needs to be livened up.

Chris Fonseca

Nothing scary, no witches. Just stupid history. Thought it was not a good value. I'd spend my money elsewhere.

J. Fitz

This was a disappointment it is over priced for what you get to do. The museum is very small we literally finished it in maybe 20 mins only because we read each sign it would have been less if we didn’t. Basically it’s one room one small room we were shocked that it was done. Now it was very informative we did learn some history but for the money it wasn’t worth it

Jsin Jsin

An attraction to check out while visiting the town of Salem.

Kristina Love

Very interesting. Definitely need to go during the off season. The figures could do with some updating but the staff is extremely friendly and knowledgeable.

Rachel S.

It is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Good historical information if you read the plaques. Small gift shop at the end.

Bobby Sierra

Still nice to see but not a must see. Woman working the registar was rude and impatient although there was no line and store was dead

Emily Morgan

Small exhibit. Wasn't awful, but would go back anytime soon. On the cheaper side so not a huge disappointment.

jessenia Dechert

I always love coming here. Best experience ever, great vibes, food, shops, and history.

Stephanie Fahey

It was very interesting small museum but loved it all the same

Mary T

Suggested as the top scary place to visit, we checked it out, but for $12, it was super weak and disappointing. It wasn't scary, funny or worthwhile. The haunted house lasted for about 10 minutes max. RIP

Moriah Gould

Worst haunted house I’ve ever been too. Not even scary there were hardly any staff inside only saw and heard two people inside dressed up. We walked very slowly through it and it took 1 or 2 mins to get out very quick and lousy. Waste of $18.

Sheila B

Not really impressed it was a waste of money I think

Barbara McCarthy

I'm not a fan of wax museums, but today my kids and I made our annual trip to Frankenstein's Castle, the haunted house that they operate during the Halloween season. I highly recommend it - it scared the pants off of me! Literally. My pants fell down about 3/4 of the way through, and I think I may have scarred an evil clown for life. We had a wicked good time!

James Minor

Reasonable value for your money if you like reading about history. The wax figures are all 'uncanny valley' spooky.

Kimberly Wilcox

It was short. But some of the displays are a good read if you have the patience.

Jackie Osornio

It was okay. Props were cool a little cheesey, and small, but good info. I wouldn't go again or recommend.

Jennifer Lattimer

Very informative while showing some of the darker side of our history, but something we all should learn from.

Christopher Casano

It was pretty cool. I thought that some of the figures looked more like dressed up mannequins than wax figures but that's just my opinion not an accusation. The final display will really pull at your heart and make you realize the horrible frenzy and hypocrisy that was the Salem witch trials. I enjoyed the historical lessons that was listed on the signs and they have a pretty good gift shop. It's $10 (per person) to walk through or $15 with a guide. They let you take as many pics as you want. Definitely worth taking a gander if you're in the area.

charles pilon

To much expansive ....8$ per person for five minutes and the quality of sculptures realy poor. The hand of a person was on the wrong side

Ashley Beecher

Small but fun! Worth the price

Blaine Shart

The salem witches turned all these people into wax.

Monique Miranda

Was museum was good i thought there would be more to see

Ed Hattaway

Excellent history lesson.

David Press

Good depiction of the era, but I did not see anything great.

Lupe Woody

Fun little tour and discount on a second tour history of witches!

Robert Glenn

Very short walk thru, but well done and educational; a grim presentation of a shameful past in American history portrayed in wax statues. We enjoyed it quite a bit. Be sure to pay attention for the official decree at the end of the display. Look left at the bottom of the stairs.

Curt Shilling

Very interesting tourist spot nice employees

Francene Breton

Story telling 15 mins long

Silvester Humaj

Tourist trap, not super exciting but a quick, fun attraction.

Rob Caufield

I'm not a fan of wax museums. I suppose the craftsmanship on the figures was quite detailed. Felt like a tourist trap.

Brandhi Rivera

Super cool!

Ivy

So realistic

Dee Bouchard

We toured just the wax museum. Very disappointing. Figures were poorly done, only placards for information and overpriced. Not sure I would even give a 1.

Bookies

If you like to read history instead of listening to it. Decent museum took us about 10 minutes to get through it. The wax figures are kind of outdated but the info is there on the plaques. Got to do some carcoal rubbings at the end which was cool but not worth a $9 admission....maybe a $5.

Tiffany lynn

I expected it to be more than two rooms worth but it was a very factual. Unfortunately the wax figures have broken fingers and things to that extent.

Mark Ferracane

Great, lots of horror stuff!

Amanda Johnson

Do NOT waste your money on this place. So not worth it. Did not enjoy at all.

Howard Parham

Love going here every few years

Todd Dickinson

Pretty informative. Make sure you get the combo tickets for the attractions. That would make the place more worth your money.

ls92101

Quaint {aka as tiny) museum that if you rush through will take you only a few minutes. Still a cool little place though. Save your ticket because you can also use it next door at the...{forgot the name) and they have a guided tour which is also short but when used will justify the price of the ticket overall.

Gabriel Rumbaut

This was an okay exhibit. I did learn a bit about the trials, but it was poorly laid out.

Amy O'Leary

HORRIBLE Experience!!! TOTAL Tourist TRAP!!!!!!!! What a waste of money. My living room would be able to hold a bigger display than this place did. Everything had to be read, where other wax museums I attended had audio. $18.00 for my daughter and I to go through, I felt robbed!!!

Jennifer Gothard

Good historical facts but only sketchy wax figures and mannequins. Wasnt worth the money.

Jennifer Bijou

Great experience, learned a lot about the witch trials

Tabitha Godsey

Fun stone rubbing at the end! Great wax figures depicting the history of Salem

Debbie O'Toole

History behind myths and trials. Little short, wish all tourist spots would coordinate stories about historic events

Jackie Flynn

Please do not bother going to the haunted house. Money scam. Ten dollars for the people to not realize we were walking through. Only TWO people jumped out at us and they were absolutely expected from the black curtains next to the cheap black plywood. We complained to the ticket office and they said we could go back through AGAIN if we wanted LOL. Such a cheap haunted house and cheap management.

Mike Bailey

The depictions of the Salem Witch Trials and Piracy tales was fascinating. The tour we took through the sister gift shop was also fascinating. The stories were more believable than those given at the Salem Witch Museum mostly because the tour guides didn't have much conference in the way they told their depiction of how witches are seen today.

yelson perez

beautiful experience to meet celebrities, there are many statues but there are more presidents some athletes and artists, a nice experience to take pictures with celebrities, the museum is small but it is good to visit, I was happy taking photos,,,, if you are thinking of visiting it visit it as soon as possible

Mary Kennedy

Pictures and video allowed. Site of the witch trial memorial statue. Would have loved the bundle ticket, but was in town just over 48 hours. Two penny presses on site if you're a collector like me, and the staff will happily give you change

Margaret LeMontagne

I'd say one would only enjoy themselves if they already have a fondness for wax figures. I was thoroughly impressed and pleased. I thought it was worth the small fee.

Mary Gomez

Very little to see waisted my mont

KATRINA COLLINS

Not much in there,but great customer service.

Koe Joe

Never been

jessica schmidt

We enjoyed learning about the history of Salem. Pretty decent setup. Nothing spectacular, but it is well put together. Get the package deal where you can do 3 attractions for $20.

Laura Maclutsky

Waste of money. Wax figures of poor quality with hand and heads thrown unto mannequin bodies. Don’t waste your time.

Andrew Fleischer

Small, overpriced, interesting bits of historical info, but probably not what you want to see in a wax museum.

Mel Black

I found this place terrible, disappointing, and a rip off. I let my kids choose an activity to help them get more involved in the trip. On the way out I heard, “Sorry Dad, that was terrible. Should have checked the ratings online.” My kids thought it was cheesy, poorly done, and in great need of maintenance and upkeep.

Denise Lanza

Great fun..great place to visit.

Tracy putnam

Closes at 5

Thomas Gibbs

Awful. Complete waste of time. They should be ashamed that they charge to get in.

Val S

We just got back from visiting 3 haunted houses in Salem... Frankensteins Castle, the Haunted witch village, and Chambers of Terror (on the Warf). Frankensteins castle Castle was awful. Not even dark, and a couple of people doing "jump scares". It was really short, and the actors we're rude. Same accross the road at haunted witch village. The lines were ling, and because of the location they suck in all the gullable tourists. We walked further down to the Warf to Chambers of Terror, and THAT was a great haunted house. Don't waste your money at Frankensteins Castle or haunted witch village.

C Berg

Went on Halloween 2016 and this is where they had the "Haunted Houses". DO NOT DO THEM!!! Trust me. They were horrible. We went to 2 of them and they let us in right after the first group before us and the "actors" weren't ready for us. Was not scary and it was over in 2 minutes. Please! Listen to me. I wanted my money back. You 'd think Salem would have done a better job. Pure laziness and unprofessional. The tickets were over priced. I've been to school funded haunted houses that did a better job.

Jill D

Kinda cool but not worth $10 per ticket. Look around for bundle tickets for some of the museums.

Yas 11

A huge waste of money. We were very excited to go there. We each payed 10$ which is not that big of a deal but it's definitely not worth 10$. It shouldn't even be called a museum as it's one room. We went through it in 10 mins, with us reading everything. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone as you can read all of it online and use your 10$ for something worth it.

Pam Ricci

It was cool, but not really worth the money.

Delvis Fernandez

Very small, not too much to see. Good to see it ones

David Jackson

A collection of generic Salem information stuck on plaques under what appear to be amateur quality "wax" creations poorly depicting a scene from each plaque. Incredibly short and weak... wouldn't have been worth it even if it were free.

Paul McArtor

Quick and inexpensive

Rob Laukaitis

Very informative of the history and fun to go to during the October time. Had a great time here. Keep in mind you will be buying tickets for a show later about a hr ahead of time due to how busy they are

karate mom

We weren't impressed with this place. We saw some wax figures, read plaques and that was it. Don't waste your money.

Sweetie Pie

The history behind Salem and why it became such an historical town was Amazing. To learn how thing happened was truly inspiring. Can't wait until Halloween 2017.

Shawn Bellaire

Wax statues are very lifelike. Only a handful of statues to view. Not overwhelmingly exciting in any way. 9 bucks to get in. Killed a few minutes but I def would not recommend.

Stephanie Sledge

Great place to visit

Kesha Germain

The wax museum was great. Among the same"neighborhood" is a series of attractions run together. The information was great and well spoken while keeping engagement. Great experience!

Gonzolean

it was a good experience and I would recommend it to learn about the history of Salem and the witch trials, their is a rich history in the town to be learned

Samantha Cole

Very interesting facts. Loved it.

Ray Smith

Learn new facts on history

Warren Bethea

Love it! Had a great time

Runar Pettersen

It was fun to see the history of the witch trials in wax figures. Had a great time visiting the museum. It is not very big so don't expect a huge museum. It is a fun stop while visiting all the other stuff Salem has to offer. You don't want to use to much time on one stop anyway.

Anthony Micucci

cool

Ross Antisdel

Frankensteins castle very cheesy. And short. Couple of ok jumps

Philippe Laurin

Beautiful museum where wax statues representing important characters of the trials of 1692 are shown, as of different historical situations regarding the witches.

JOSE EFFIO

Nice

Alvaro Zendejas

You can walk at your own pace, very creepy in a good way.

Tommy Worthington

Pretty cool little wax museum. A bit smaller than I expected, but it was fairly priced and entertaining, and the quality of the figures was pretty good.

Derek Dambrosio

If you're going to do a tour of Salem you should definitely try to make time to stop in to the wax museum

September Búho

Short time but Great Learning and Experience!! If you go to Salem you have to go!

Eric The Funfetti

I felt as though I was transported back in time. Convinced me to quit my job and spend my days in this splended museum.

Crystalyn Richards

Good way to get a little overall history at your own pace

Jessica Roberts

Lots of fun!

shana sipe

learned a lot, but it’s very small. the staff was so nice but said there was an interactive part of the museum.. guess i just expected it to be a little more interactive than just a jail cell to sit in.

Ira Melanox

Worth $3 maybe. Dusty and small.

Jenn Schulz

Very educational. I enjoyed, but my 13 & 14 yr. Old kids were bored & not interested in learning anything.

dmorey32

Don't wasteof your time

Judie Lemus

Nice place but too small

Noel Cutler

Great place, great prices and super friendly knowledgeable staff!

Casey Avellino

Kinda lame. Go to Count Orlocks horror museum instead, it's waaaaaayyyyy better

Mary Glendening

Don't waste your money.

kire erik

Scariest place I have seen so far.

Ian Broome

Pretty cool place not very big but nice.

Jayne Phillabaum

Very enjoyable with some knowledge that isn't necessarily known outside of MA.

Phillip Pirrup

Rather boring but the animatronic were quite good and what is making me give this place a 2 star.

Shelley Hutchins

Proces are fair, staff knows their history also knows exactly what they have to offer.

Raul Tendilla

Very good

Matt Sambito

Great Staff and a pleasure to work with Matt From Net Atlantic

Carlo Castronovo

Fun place to visit for Halloween

Stephanie Sigot

The woman working the counter was sweet, but it was a huge rip off! $8 to see something that takes five minutes to see all of. The wax figures themselves and the exhibits were very boring. Save your money for another museum.

Sharon Serebro

great candles

Katie Hack

Not much to see, not great quality. Not worth the money, in my opinion. Lots of better ways to spend your money in Salem

Granger Marsden

Cool wax sculptures, interesting historical details. Quick and fun to browse.

Scott Schwartzberg

Not up to the standards of Mme. Tussaud's, but some interesting exhibits.

Maryann Regimbal

Was fun!!!!

Kristi Blackmer

I don't think I would spend the money to go here again. It was pretty informative but very, very small and awfully short. I had hoped for something a little more interesting. Only took us 8-10 minutes to get through the whole thing. The haunted house and gift shop downstairs were pretty nice, though.

Richard Suarez

This Place Is Amazing. I enjoyed every display, every plaque, every single step in that building, and the gift shop had a lot of stuff that I wanted to buy.

Lady D and her RV

Hey, why not go. I lived in Salem for many years and would pass this place, never went until I started filming and acquired passes for most of the locations. This place didn't allow me to film, so I just walked around and listened and read and listened and it wasn't that bad. I even got Tarot cards at the gift shop. Not a bad way to send an hour or so. My daughter liked it so, no complaints.

Beth Blank

I don’t recommend going to the Salem wax museum.. not worth the $20 better off reading about it online

tovey ader-olson

Quick museum. Not a lot to see.

John Grindle

Was good

Marc Smith

This isn't a bad place, it's just bland. The wax figures leave a bit to be desired. They look a bit silly. However, this place does help paint a picture of life during witch hysteria.

Abishek Varadarajan

Good history wax museum. But the wax models were Dusty and old.

reva rutherford

we had some much fun and the kids learned a lot