Bilingual 'Wax Museum' Created At Forest Hills School: Report

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — It sounds like an oxymoron, but it's not: students at a Forest Hills school created a live, bilingual wax museum.

The exhibit, first reported by ABC7, was put on by Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Academy as part of Catholic School's Week, which took place during the last week of January.

Fourth graders posed in front of poster boards as influential members of the Hispanic community and then came to life when passersby pressed a red button.

Then, in both English and Spanish, the students gave a presentation on the person from history who they were representing — including Alex Rodriguez, Sonia Sotomayor, Pablo Picasso, and Zoe Saldana, the outlet reported.

The Forest Hills church made headlines a couple of months ago for a more sobering situation. In July, a person smashed a pair of decades-old religious statues outside of the church, and was ultimately hit with hate crime charges.

See the full ABC7 segment on the school's living wax museum here.