The Eden Musee’ was founded in 1883 and was located on Twenty-third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Manhattan. A popular destination point for visitors to New York City for over thirty years it was America’s answer to Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork in London.

 

In December of 1915 the Manhattan site closed, a victim of changing times and urban development and an abridged version opened at Coney Island.  Sadly what remained of the original collection burned at Coney Island in February 1932.

 

Our Eden Musee’ Collection is an attempt to recapture and preserve the style and feeling of this once great American waxworks. We have made no attempts to restrict ourselves to exhibits described in the surviving guidebooks, but rather have created a series of effigies that would have been contemporary during its Manhattan heyday, making this series an homage to this mighty exhibition rather than a slavish, historical reproduction.