Mammoth Cave Wax Museum

Granted, not every museum can be as great as, say, the Louvre, where throngs of visitors from around the globe jostle into position to view the back of the heads of Japanese tourists looking at the Mona Lisa. But some museums seem….well, slightly less likely to appear on anyone’s “must visit before I die” list.

Such as the Mammoth Cave Wax museum in Cave City, Kentucky.
I can’t say that I’ve ever actually been inside the museum itself, but I do have a spiffy collection of the postcards they sell in the gift shop. Perhaps one day I will have to do the museum tour, because it seems to reference valuable information I don’t remember from history class.


I had never thought of Eleanor Roosevelt as a fashion trendsetter, but the wax museum fact-ologists set THAT record straight. Though the former First Lady died in 1962, here we see her in the colors would soon be all the rage in 1970s kitchen appliances…..Harvest Gold and Avocado green.


And who knew Ike favored Tangee orange lipstick. Mmm-mmm-mmm, don’t he look natural!

And how about this historic summit, where (l. to r.) Robert Kennedy, Pope Pius XII, Dr. Billy Graham, Marion Anderson, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Dr. Marie Curie (in the back of the bus), and Neil Armstrong came together to share their opinions.

About Eleanor’s wardrobe choices, no doubt.