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Madam Tussaud’s is the most amazing wax museums in the world that attracts more than 2.5 million people every year. This museum is located in London close to the Baker Street where the house of the well-known fiction dective, Sherlock Holmes, is situated.

Although the museum is one of the tourist attractions in London, Marie Tussaud, the founder of the museum, was French. Young Marie worked in Strasbourg for Dr. Philipp Curtis, a wax modeller. Firstly she helped him to organise an exhibition in Paris and then started doing models herself. She made her first wax model (Voltaire) being only 17 years old!

After the death of her teacher, Marie inherited the collection of models with which she moved to Great Britain. Her first exhibition took place on Baker Street and consisted of no more than 30 models. In 1884 the museum was transferred to a new place where it is still located.

There are several different halls in the unique museum: “The chamber of horrors”, “Grand Hall”, “The spirit of London”. The first one is the most thrilling place of the museum where the models of villains and their victims are presented. The second one exhibits diffirent historical, political, military figures. And the last one is dedicated to the history of London. There is also a separate hall for stars’ models.

That’s why every day hundreds of people stay in a long queue to enter Madam Tussaud’s and to see their favourite actors, singers, members of the Royal Family and many other characters and celebrities made of wax that amaze with their resemblance to reality. This museum gives an opportunity to see either great people of past decades or our contemporaries.

Перевод:

Мадам Тюссо – самый удивительный музей восковых фигур в мире, который ежегодно привлекает более 2.5 миллионов людей. Этот музей находится в Лондоне, неподалеку от Бейкер-Стрит, улицы, где располагается дом знаменитого детектива – Шерлока Холмса.

Хотя музей и является одной из достопримечательностей Лондона, его основательница, Мария Тюссо, была француженкой. Юная Мария работала в Страсбурге на доктора Филиппа Кёртиса, лепщика восковых фигур. Изначально она помогла ему организовать выставку в Париже, а затем и сама начала создавать фигуры. Она сделала свою первую восковую фигуру (Вольтера), когда ей было всего 17 лет!

После смерти своего учителя Мария унаследовала коллекцию его фигур, с которой она и переехала в Великобританию. Первая ее выставка состоялась на Бейкер-Стрит и состояла не более чем из 30 экспонатов. В 1884 году музей Тюссо был перемещен на новое место, где он находится и сегодня.

Этот уникальный музей состоит из нескольких залов: «Комната страха», «Главный зал», «Дух Лондона». Первый зал – наиболее захватывающее место в музее, где представлены фигуры злодеев и их жертв. В следующем находятся знаменитые исторические личности, политики и военные. А последний посвящен истории Лондона. Также в музее имеется отдельный зал для восковых фигур звезд.

Именно поэтому ежедневно сотни людей стоят в длинной очереди, чтобы войти в музей Мадам Тюссо и увидеть своих любимых актеров, певцов, членов королевской семьи и многих других персонажей и знаменитостей, сделанных из воска, которые поражают своей реалистичностью. Этот музей – уникальная возможность увидеть как великих людей прошлых веков, так и наших современников.

Полезные фразы:

Tourist attraction – достопримечательность

Wax model/figure – восковая фигура

To organise an exhibition – организовать выставку

To inherite – унаследовать, получить в наследство

To take place – состояться, проходить

To be dedicated to -быть посвященным чему-либо

To stay in a queue – стоять в очереди

Contemporary – современник

Resemblance to reality – сходство с действительностью

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Топик Музей «Мадам Тюссо» (или Музей восковых фигур мадам Тюссо) рассказывает о всемирно известном музее Лондона. В 1884 году музей обосновался в здании бывшего планетария, на улице Марлибон. На входе посетителей встречает сама мадам Тюссо, т.е. фигура-автопортрет, сделанная ею собственноручно ещё при жизни. Коллекция музея помещается в нескольких тематических залах. Самый большой из них называется «Мировая арена». Здесь расположены фигуры политических и культурных деятелей от Средневековья до наших дней. Часть этой экспозиции посвящена музыке. Второй зал музея «Ночь премьеры», в нём собраны фигуры звёзд Голливуда. Следующий зал — «Вечеринка списка А» вмещает в себя мировых селебрити. Самый известный зал музея — «Комната ужаса», а его экспонаты иллюстрируют самые мрачные и кровавые страницы истории. В Лондонском музее Тюссо можно проехаться в передвижном вагончике по экспозиции с видами Лондона от его истоков и до нынешнего времени. За два века своей истории музей значительно разросся – его филиалы открылись в 19 городах мира.

Every visitor to London knows who Madame Tussaud is — or was. And almost every visitor has seen her, an old lady of 81, standing at the entrance of her own exhibition. She is made of wax, like all the models of people in this museum. There are a lot of halls in the museum. The first room is the «Garden Party». Beneath a star-spangled sky, under an oak-tree, figures from the worlds of sports and the media enjoy a friendly drink and chat. There are statues of A. Schwarzenegger, E. Taylor and others there. «200 Years» room covers the history of Madame Tussaud’s over the last two centuries and shows the developing of new technology during that time. There are also other rooms such as «Legends and Superstars», rooms with popular music singers, the members of royal families and military leaders. There is the «Chamber of Horrors» which amuses visitors very much. «The Spirit of London» is a magnificent journey through London’s history. The cabs travel past the figure of W. Shakespeare, Sir Christopher Wren, who directs the building of St Paul’s Cathedral. It’s not easy to tell about all interesting things one can see in the museum. This is the place that is worth visiting.

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Madame Tussauds London

Introduction

Millions and millions of people have flocked through the doors of Madame Tussauds since they first opened over 200 years ago and it remains just as popular as it ever was. There are many reasons for this enduring success, but at the heart of it all is good, old-fashioned curiosity. Today’s visitors are sent on a unique, emotionally-charged journey through the realms of the powerful and famous. The museum-style ropes and poles have gone so guests can truly get up, close and personal with A-list celebrities, sporting legends, political heavyweights and historical icons, reliving the times, events and moments that made the world talk about them….

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and was formerly known as «Madame Tussaud’s», but the apostrophe is no longer used. Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers.

History

Marie Tussaud, was born Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761–1850) in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling.

Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs she claims that she would search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. Following the doctor’s death in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years travelling around Europe. Her marriage to Franзois Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the show: Madame Tussauds. In 1802, she went to London having accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She did not fare particularly well financially, with Philidor taking half of her profits. As a result of the Franco-British war, she was unable to return to France, so she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. From 1831 she took a series of short leases on the upper floor of «Baker Street Bazaar» (on the west side of Baker Street between Dorset Street and King Street), which later featured in the Druce-Portland case sequence of trials of 1898-1907. This became Tussauds first permanent home in 1836. By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum.

Madame Tussauds London is a major tourist attraction located in Central London, housed in the former London Planetarium. It is famous for recreating famous people, or celebrities, in wax. It is the original Madame Tussauds attraction, having been situated on Marylebone Road since 1884. It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It is operated by Merlin Entertainments.

One of the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors. This part of the exhibition included victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals. The name is often credited to a contributor to Punch in 1845, but Marie appears to have originated it herself, using it in advertising as early as 1843.

Other famous people were added to the exhibition, including Horatio Nelson, and Sir Walter Scott. Some of the sculptures done by Marie Tussaud herself still exist. The gallery originally contained some 400 different figures, but fire damage in 1925, coupled with German bombs in 1941, has rendered most of these older models defunct. The casts themselves have survived (allowing the historical waxworks to be remade), and these can be seen in the museum’s history exhibit. The oldest figure on display is that of Madame du Barry. Other faces from the time of Tussaud include Robespierre, George III and Benjamin Franklin. In 1842, she made a self portrait which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. She died in her sleep on 15 April 1850.

By 1883 the restricted space and rising cost of the Baker Street site prompted her grandson (Joseph Randall) to commission the building at its current location on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were opened on 14 July 1884 and were a great success. However, the building costs, falling so soon after buying out his cousin Louisa’s half share in the business in 1881, meant the business was under-funded. A limited company was formed in 1888 to attract fresh capital but had to be dissolved after disagreements between the family shareholders, and in February 1889 Tussauds was sold to a group of businessmen led by Edwin Josiah Poyser. Edward White, an artist dismissed by the new owners to save money, allegedly sent a parcel bomb to John Theodore Tussaud in June 1889 in revenge.

Zones within the attraction

A-List Party

Formally Blush, this is the first room on the tour. Included in this room is the Big Brother experience, plus figures such as Robert Pattinson, Morgan Freeman, Leo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Miley Cyrus, Keira Knightley, Angelina Jolie and Tara Palmer-Tompkinson. It is designed to make the visitor feel as if they have stepped into a celebrity party, with wax figures dispersed throughout the room.

Warhol’s Women

The Warhol’s Women zone contains the figure of Andy Warhol and of the female celebrities he famously portrayed, including Liza Minnelli and Jerry Hall.

Premiere Night (Movie Room)

This zone houses celebrities from Hollywood, including Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Jim Carrey, Audrey Hepburn, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Whoopi Goldberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Marilyn Monroe in the classic pose where her skirt is blown upward. It also houses six Bollywood figures namely Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Madhuri Dixit and several fictional characters, including Shrek and the smallest wax figure ever made, Tinker Bell.

Sports Zone

The Sports Zone has several interactive elements. Visitors can step up to the crease with batsman Sachin Tendulkar, putt a golf ball with Tiger Woods, stand on boxing scales next to Mohammed Ali and see what ‘weight’ they would qualify for in boxing, take a penalty on a virtual reality screen, and test their driving skills alongside Lewis Hamilton.

A Royal Appointment

In the Royals there is an opportunity to stand next to Diana, Princess of Wales, Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh, Charles and Camilla, The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

Culture

A mixture of cultural icons fills this area, including William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Pablo Picasso and Charles Darwin.

Music Megastars

A mixture of music stars from across the decades appears in an area with a music stage complete with glitter balls. Music icons include Michael Jackson, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Gary Barlow, Tom Jones, Bob Marley, Cheryl Cole, Robbie Williams, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Freddie Mercury and Justin Bieber. The Beatles in this area are posed as they appear on the album cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

World Leaders

The World Leaders area of the attraction contains political and spiritual leaders of the world, past and present. The new figure of Barack Obama dominates this area; he is standing in a mock-up of the Oval Office which has a replica of the Resolute desk. Other leaders in this area include Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Martin Luther King, Eleftherios Venizelos, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Mohandas Gandhi.

The World Leaders area is also noted for its inclusion of controversial figures, including Adolf Hitler, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe. Mother Teresa is one of the very few icons to ask not to be made, saying «her work was more important, not the person». Visitors also get the chance to stand next to the present Prime Minister David Cameron in front of a facade of No.10 Downing Street. At the time of his duties as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown was a notable omission as he had proved to be unpopular, however it is now David Cameron in this room.

Chamber of Horrors and Scream

The Chamber of Horrors showcases serial killers and murders. Included in this area are Guy Fawkes and Dennis Nilsen. This area also exhibits the original guillotine blade that killed Marie Antoinette.

The Scream experience (formally Chamber Live) is a live-action, actor-led scare maze. It is based on the premise that several serial killers have been let loose in the chamber. This attraction — on account of its thrill factor which does not appeal to all visitors — can be avoided by an exit that leads visitors to the next area.

Behind the Scenes and History of Madame Tussauds

This area shows the history of Marie Tussaud, and how she started creating wax figures. It also has an area on how the sculptors make the figures, using Beyoncй as an example.

Spirit of London ride

The Spirit of London is a sit-down ride in which visitors sit in London taxis and are taken on a journey through the history of London. The ride starts in Tudor times and ends in the 1980s, passing through the times of Shakespeare, the Great Fire of London, the Industrial Revolution and the Swinging Sixties. The ride has commentary in a few languages and a photo is taken near the end of the ride which can be purchased when disembarked.

Marvel Super Heroes 4D

Marvel Super Heroes 4D starts off in the Command Centre, where you will see the likes of Wolverine (portrayed by Hugh Jackman), The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Spiderman, who is on «the roof» of an upside-down room.

Madame Tussauds (, )^{[1][N. 1]} is a wax museum founded in 1835 (188 years ago) by French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in London, spawning similar museums in major cities around the world. While it used to be spelled as «Madame Tussaud’s»; the apostrophe is no longer used.^[2][3] Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in many cities, displaying the waxworks of famous and historical figures, as well as popular film and television characters.

History[edit]

Background[edit]

Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked for Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modeling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling beginning when she was a child. He moved to Paris and took his young apprentice, then only 6 years old, with him.^[4]

Grosholtz created her first wax sculpture in 1777 of Voltaire.^[5] At the age of 17, she became the art tutor to Madame Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI of France, at the Palace of Versailles. During the French Revolution, she was imprisoned for three months and awaiting execution, but was released after the intervention of an influential friend.^[4] During the Revolution, she made models of many prominent victims.^[6]

Grosholtz inherited Curtius’s vast collection of wax models following his death in 1794. For the next 33 years, she travelled around Europe with a touring show from the collection. She married Francois Tussaud in 1795 and took his surname. She renamed her show as Madame Tussaud’s. In 1802, she accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She did not fare particularly well financially, with Philidor taking half of her profits.

She was unable to return to France because of the Napoleonic Wars, so she traveled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. From 1831, she took a series of short leases on the upper floor of «Baker Street Bazaar» (on the west side of Baker Street, Dorset Street, and King Street in London).^[7] This site was later featured in the Druce-Portland case sequence of trials of 1898–1907. This became Tussaud’s first permanent home in 1836.^[8]

Origins[edit]

By 1835, Marie Tussaud had settled down in Baker Street, London and opened a museum.^[9] One of the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors. The name is often credited to a contributor to Punch in 1845, but Tussaud appears to have originated it herself, using it in advertising as early as 1843.^[10]

This part of the exhibition included victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals. Other famous people were added, including Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria.^[11]

Some sculptures still exist that were made by Marie Tussaud herself. The gallery originally contained some 400 different figures, but fire damage in 1925, coupled with German bombs in 1941, severely damaged most of such older models. The casts themselves have survived, allowing the historical waxworks to be remade, and these can be seen in the museum’s history exhibit. The oldest figure on display is that of Madame du Barry, the work of Curtius from 1765 and part of the waxworks left to Grosholtz at his death. Other faces from the time of Tussaud include Robespierre and George III. In 1842, she made a self-portrait, which is now on display at the entrance of her museum. She died in her sleep in London on 16 April 1850.^[12]

By 1883, the restricted space and rising cost of the Baker Street site prompted her grandson Joseph Randall to commission construction of a building at the museum’s current location on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were opened on 14 July 1884 and were a great success.^[13] But Randall had bought out his cousin Louisa’s half share in the business in 1881, and that plus the building costs resulted in his having too little capital. He formed a limited company in 1888 to attract fresh capital but it had to be dissolved after disagreements between the family shareholders. In February 1889 Tussaud’s was sold to a group of businessmen, led by Edwin Josiah Poyser.^[14] The first wax sculpture of a young Winston Churchill was made in 1908; a total of ten have been made since.^[15] The first overseas branch of Madame Tussauds was opened in Amsterdam in 1970.^[16]

Ownership changes[edit]

In 2005, Madame Tussauds was sold to a company in Dubai, Dubai International Capital, for £800m (US$1.5bn). In May 2007, The Blackstone Group purchased The Tussauds Group from then-owner Dubai International Capital for US$1.9 billion;^[17] the company was merged with Blackstone’s Merlin Entertainments and operation of Madame Tussauds was taken over by Merlin.^[17][18] After the Tussauds acquisition, Dubai International Capital gained 20% of Merlin Entertainment.^[19]

On 17 July 2007, as part of the financing for the Tussauds deal, Merlin sold the freehold of Madame Tussauds to private investor Nick Leslau and his investment firm Prestbury under a sale and leaseback agreement.^[20] Although the attraction sites are owned by Prestbury, they are operated by Merlin based on a renewable 35-year lease.^[18]

Recent status[edit]

Madame Tussaud’s wax museum became a major tourist attraction in London. Until 2010, it incorporated the London Planetarium in its west wing. A large animated dark ride, The Spirit of London, opened in 1993. Today’s wax figures at Tussauds include historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars, and famous murderers. It has been known since 2007 as «Madame Tussauds» museums (no apostrophe).^[21]

In July 2008, Madame Tussauds’ Berlin branch became embroiled in controversy when a 41-year-old German man brushed past two guards and decapitated a wax figure depicting Adolf Hitler. This was believed to be an act of protest against showing the ruthless dictator alongside sports heroes, movie stars, and other historical figures. The statue has since been repaired, and the perpetrator has admitted that he attacked the statue to win a bet.^[22] The original model of Hitler was unveiled in Madame Tussauds London in April 1933; it was frequently vandalised and a 1936 replacement had to be carefully guarded.^[23][24][25] In January 2016, the statue of Adolf Hitler was removed from the Chamber of Horrors section in the London museum in response to an open letter sent by a staff writer of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, followed by significant support for its removal from social media.^[26]

The first Madame Tussauds in India opened in New Delhi on 1 December 2017. Its operator, Merlin Entertainments, planned an investment of 50 million pounds over the next 10 years.^[27][28][29] It features over 50 wax models, including political and entertainment figures such as Ariana Grande, Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sachin Tendulkar, Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Asha Bhosle, Kapil Dev, and Mary Kom.^[30]

On 30 December 2020, the holding company of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Delhi, India confirmed a temporary shutdown of the Museum.^[31] It is scheduled to reopen in 2022.^[32]

Museum locations[edit]

Asia[edit]

Europe[edit]

North America[edit]

Oceania[edit]

• Sydney, Australia (2012)^[59]

In popular culture[edit]

Celebrity poses with their wax figures[edit]

Celebrities have often posed like their wax figures as pranks and publicity stunts:

• On 3 November 2009, the museum’s New York City branch was featured in a segment on NBC’s Today in which weatherman Al Roker posed in place of his lifelike wax figure for two hours and startled unsuspecting visitors, who were at first led to believe they were viewing Roker’s wax counterpart.^[60]
• In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne did similarly in New York to promote his album Scream (2010).^[61]
• NBA players Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin pranked fans during the unveiling of their statues at the New York and San Francisco museums, respectively.^[62][63]
• In 2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger posed as the Terminator statue in the Hollywood museum, to promote a charity event.^[64]
• Ant and Dec pranked Olly Murs by tricking him into using a machine that will «scan every part of Olly’s face and body to create the most accurate wax figure ever» as a part of their annual Undercover segment on their show, Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

Films[edit]

• Some sequences of the film Housefull 3 were shot in the Madame Tussauds, London.
• Parts of the film Fan (2016) were shot at Madame Tussauds, making it the first Indian film to be shot there.
• Madame Tussauds features in the film Shanghai Knights (2003).

Games[edit]

• Marie Tussaud is featured in an Assassin’s Creed Unity side mission, where the player is tasked with retrieving the severed heads of which Madame Tussaud was commissioned to make replicas.
• Madame Tussaud is referenced as «Madame Tusspell» in The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, where the player is tasked to investigate in the wax museum.

Literature[edit]

• In Thomas Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native (published 1878) the Christmas congregation at a country church is likened to «a Tussaud collection of [local] celebrities».
• There is a brief reference to Madame Tussaud’s work in the Sherlock Holmes story «The Mazarin Stone».
• In Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, his author says that the only thing the wax figures sculpted by Madame Tussaud lack is speech.
• In Elizabeth Bowen’s novel The Death of the Heart (1938), Portia and Eddie have tea at Madame Tussaud’s and Portia is disappointed that the waitresses are real and not made of wax.
• In the novel Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster (2016) by Karen Lee Street, Madame Tussaud meets twice with Edgar Allan Poe and C. Auguste Dupin at her exhibition halls.

Music[edit]

• In Gilbert and Sullivan’s song «My Object All Sublime», from The Mikado (1885), the title character sings of punishments fitting the crime, including:

The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies
All desire to shirk,
Shall, during off-hours
Exhibit his powers
To Madame Tussaud’s waxwork.

• Madame Tussauds is the focus of Steve Taylor’s song «Meltdown (at Madame Tussauds)», which describes someone turning up the thermostat and causing the wax figures to melt.^[65] Taylor wrote the song as «a new metaphor to ask [the] same question» as Jesus, «What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?»^[66]
• The Beatles had their wax figures featured along with cardboard cutouts of various famous people in the cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).^[67]
• Several sculptures from the London branch (including George Bush and Tony Blair) appear in the music video «Pop!ular» by singer-songwriter Darren Hayes.
• Madame Tussauds sculptures are used on the cover of Rick Wakeman’s album The Six Wives of Henry VIII. A waxwork of Richard Nixon also appears in the background.

Stage productions[edit]

• Marie Tussaud is mentioned in The Scarlet Pimpernel (first run on stage in 1903, first publication 1905).

List of notable wax figures[edit]

London[edit]

Hollywood[edit]

New York City[edit]

Nashville[edit]

Beijing[edit]

Washington, D.C.[edit]

Bangkok[edit]

Blackpool[edit]

Las Vegas[edit]

Orlando[edit]

San Francisco[edit]

Shanghai[edit]

Hong Kong[edit]

Amsterdam[edit]

Vienna[edit]

Sydney[edit]

Istanbul[edit]

Gallery[edit]

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See also[edit]

• Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussauds), London
• Marie Tussaud
• Madame Tussauds Amsterdam
• Madame Tussauds Beijing
• Madame Tussauds Blackpool
• Madame Tussauds Delhi
• Madame Tussauds Hollywood
• Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
• Madame Tussauds Las Vegas
• Madame Tussauds New York
• Madame Tussauds Rock Circus (1989–2001, London)
• Madame Tussauds San Francisco
• Madame Tussauds Shanghai
• Madame Tussauds Singapore
• Madame Tussauds Sydney
• Madame Tussauds Vienna
• Madame Tussauds Washington D.C.
• Merlin Entertainments

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Berridge, Kate (2006). Madame Tussaud: A life in wax. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-052847-8.
• Chapman, Pauline (1984). Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors: Two Hundred Years of Crime. London: Constable. ISBN 0-09-465620-7.
• Deakin, Johnston and Markesinis (2008). Markesinis & Deakin’s Tort Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928246-3.
• Hervé, Francis, ed. (1838). Madame Tussaud’s Memoirs and Reminiscences of France, forming an abridged history of the French Revolution. London: Saunders & Otley.
• McCallam, David (2002). «Waxing Revolutionary: Reflections on a Raid on a Waxworks at the Outbreak of the French Revolution». French History. 16 (2): 153–173. doi:10.1093/fh/16.2.153..
• Moran, Michelle (2011). Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution. Crown. ISBN 978-0-307-58865-4.
• Pilbeam, Pamela (2006). Madame Tussaud: And the History of Waxworks. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 100–104. ISBN 1-85285-511-8.

External links[edit]

• Official website

Coordinates: 51°31′22″N 0°09′19″W / 51.52278°N 0.15528°W