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Panoptikum is the oldest and largest wax museum in Germany, a family-run institution on the Spielbudenplatz in Hamburg's St Pauli district, a short step from the bright lights of the Reeperbahn. It was founded in 1879 by Friedrich Hermann Faerber, at a time when wax figures gave the public a chance to see what famous people looked like before photography was widespread, mixing kings and criminals, public figures and curiosities in a display that was part spectacle and part visual newspaper. Rema...