Pleasant Valley Elementary School held its Academic Fair on Tuesday, which featured its live wax museum. The “wax” figures are really second-grade students in dress up as their favorite historical person or celebrity.

Like in a wax museum lined with statues, the students line the hallways of their elementary school next to their poster about the person. Next to their poster is a click-on, battery-operated light for “museum” visitors to push and learn more about the person. Each student has a short speech ready full of facts.

This is the second year for the “wax museum,” said Joan Bumbulsky, a second-grade teacher at PVE.

“The kids loved it,” Bumbulsky said. “One boy said, ‘This is better that Halloween’.”

In all, 250 second graders came alive in the living wax museum dressed as people who changed the world, celebrities and athletes. Some of the people chosen were the late Neil Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth II, Albert Einstein, and Martin Luther King Jr., and those still alive such as Olympic equestrian Isabell Werth and education activist Malala Safzai.

“They learn so much from this activity,” Bumbulsky said.

The Academic Fair was held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. so families could come out and see some of what their children are doing in school.