Wax Museum
Renaissance cellar filled with wax figures of monarchs, alchemists, and Bohemian folk legends.
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This guide to the Wax Museum in Cesky Krumlov opens with an emperor's decades-long obsession: Rudolf II ruled the Habsburg lands from 1576 to 1612 chasing the Philosopher's Stone, a substance said to turn lead into gold, building laboratories in his own palace and once singeing his beard in the attempt. It follows two hired Englishmen, John Dee and Edward Kelly, brought in to deliver what he wanted.
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