A Most Morbid Mansion
A Tour Through the Beautiful and Bizarre of Victorian Life
Advance Ticketing
Space is limited. Please reserve your tickets in advance.
living wax figures
Guided experience through eerie vignettes based on real Victorian hazards
content advisory
Recommended Ages 16+ due to mature themes.
Step beyond the velvet ropes and into a world where elegance met peril.
In this immersive, wax museum–style tour of the Conrad-Caldwell House, guests will be guided room by room through a series of hauntingly beautiful tableaux that reveal the dark side of Victorian domestic life.
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As the gaslights flicker, a costumed guide leads small groups through the mansion, where silent figures appear frozen in moments of both refinement and ruin; a corset drawn too tight, a fashionable gown laced with arsenic green, a parlor where mourning and medicine blur. Each vignette draws from authentic 19th-century accounts, including sensational stories once reported in the Louisville Courier-Journal, exposing the hidden hazards and peculiar practices that lurked beneath the Gilded Age’s polished surface.
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This is not a haunted house, but a living exhibition — part history, part theatre, and entirely macabre. Visitors will leave with a new appreciation for the beauty, risk, and ritual of Victorian life…and death.
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**Tickets are required in advance and spots are limited**
