Salem Wax: A Halloween Experience & The Haunted Neighborhood — Attraction in Salem

The Salem Wax Museum, which looks like it has a lot of potential from the outside amongst many other exciting places along historic Derby Street in Downtown Salem, has definitely seen better days. This might be an okay place to take little kids where it might seem like a big exciting attraction to them but for anyone else it's really just a rundown, small, overpriced disappointment. Also it's honestly rather boring and there is absolutely no excitement or surprises during the entire mundane experience. As far as it being overpriced, you are better off to get the package deal where are you can see three attractions for a discounted total price. However, The Salem Wax Museum should honestly be your last priority on the list to see. The gift shop consists of mostly cheesy, overpriced, stereotypical, cheap looking things from the "Witch City". When you're done make sure to check out the old burial ground behind the museum and behind Beer Works. This is absolutely worth seeing and you can walk around for free! Also there is a memorial to many of the witches who were hung right next to the cemetery. This is an amazing place for beautiful photo opportunities. Honestly if you want to have a much more unique and worthwhile experience you should head down towards the pier / waterfront and go exploring amongst the multitude of unique shops where you can find things from handmade jewelry to all kinds of eclectic items that you'll never find anywhere else. It's in this area that you'll find the real souvenirs and gifts everyone will appreciate and which are not cheap mass-produced garbage. One of the most popular places in this area is Laurie Cabot's shop where you can get very unique items and even a reading from herself personally, for a look into...

If you want a voodoo doll purchase one here. I'd visited most of the witch stores in Salem and none had a real voodoo doll except for this store.

The staff of girls who work there are crazy. They talk out loud about their boyfriend problems and they talk badly about their coworkers. I've never seen so much envy between employees.

It's a great little store except for the background noise of the employees bad mouthing each other.

They need to play a bit of pagan/folk/witch music in the store. It will create the Salem black magic ambience most people expect in Salem. This store has so much potential because of its location to the cemetery out back. If you walk outside towards the back of the store you'll come upon the cemetery that dates back to the 1600s and there you'll find buried one of the original Mayflower passengers.

Who is the owner? You might consider playing spooky background music in the store. It's what we tourists sort of expect in Salem. If you give the tourists what they want they are sure to buy more items from your store. You might also consider speaking to your employees about not gossiping when customers enter the store. The girls up front huddle at the register yapping about their personal business instead of welcoming the customers...

I purchased tickets online then we got the admission tickets. We got the wicked special the Salem wax museum, Haunted witch village and Frankenstein's Castle all for $26 each person. The wax museum was cool we learned alot about Salem's history through wax statues and informative signs at each exhibit. It was cool! Frankenstein's castle was fun but not that scary...the Haunted witch village was awesome and they got a few screams out of me! LOL Money well spent! We went on a Sunday in mid October which I read October was very busy and we waited 10 minutes or less to get into each attraction even though it looked like long lines. Salem was packed too unless you get to Salem very early in the morning you may need to drive to one of the nearby train stations and take a train into Salem like we did. We went to the Beverly station. Usually there parking garages are full in downtown Salem by 11am. We read about other options too a ferry from Boston to Salem they have satellite parking lots them you take the shuttle into Salem If you aren't from Massachusetts get the Salem app they give you a lot of info about where to park how to get there, the train stations and parking lots. We didn't know anything about the trains until I read it in...