Philadelphia Wax Museum doesn’t physically exist but has 65K+ Facebook fans

From the Philadelphia Wax Museum’s Facebook page.

The Philadelphia Wax Museum doesn’t exist in physical form (yet, at least), but it does exist in another way: on Facebook with its more than 65,000 fans. (That’s more than the wildly popular Old Images of Philadelphia Facebook group, which is now up to more than 58,000 fans)

See the Facebook page here.

The Philadelphia Wax Museum has been a dream of Robert Avery‘s since 1997 but it hasn’t materialized yet, as the Daily News first reported. He’s used social networks to drum up excitement for the museum, though the Daily News reported that some of the hype may be misplaced.

From the Daily News:

But Avery’s LinkedIn page includes recommendations from fake people, which also appear on the museum’s website.

For instance, a man who gives Avery high marks is described as David Kathman, a “Programmer at Pink Mobiliti.” But an image search shows that the photo is actually that of Drew Westen, a psychology professor at Emory University. “Never heard anything about it,” Westen said, when asked about the museum.

Read the whole story here.