But not just for Horror.
You can fill the museum with all sorts of other interesting costumes, dolls, puppets, and creatures, but you'll get a real connection when you see perfect depictions of actors faces. For example: Ripley next to the Alien.
I found there was a lot more Wax Museums in the past. Today there is Madame Tussauds in Hollywood, and in Las Vegas. The others have closed down because people got bored after seeing it only once. But that was also a whole generation ago. There's an entire new Generation who might like to see it. Not just Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, and Elizabeth Taylor, but all new famous actors, and characters from today. Bradley Cooper, Nicole Kidman, Taylor Swift, even Ed Sheeran. Because they are all alive today you could ask them to be 3D scanned and to the models. This would be easier and more accurate, could just use photogrammetry.
Any character that has any makeup or mask on can just be modeled from a generic face. Examples Pennywise, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers. I think the main reason people do go to a wax museum is they want to see an exact likeness of somebody famous. It's the next best thing to actually meeting a celebrity face to face. They're large faces are printed on magazine covers, like US Or People, but it's not the same as up-close 3D.
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Print it in plastic.
Using photogrammetry you could grab every angle of an actor's face from an old movie. Wizard of Oz Judy Garland for example. No need to meticulously sculpt it out of wax, you could perfect her face in a 3D modeling program. Then 3D print it life-size, put it on a mannequin body, with real styled hair and accurate costume. My studio doing this would have artists who can paint their skin to look very real. In case it doesn't look real enough, the studio can make a face mold from the 3D printout, and then cast it skin texture silicone. Put in professionally made, glass eyes for realism.
When I first had this idea, I thought that to save time or money, you could approach an old failing wax museum, and 3D scan their wax faces of many celebrities. But when I see photos of the wax figures many of the celebrities are not done very well. In modern Madame Tussauds, I'd say about 50% have been done very well. The rest are kind of hard to recognize and they appear like celebrity look-alikes. Even with those scans into 3D models, you could tweak another 5% on the face until it looks exactly like that person.
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