Madame Tussauds
Wax Museum i London

Do you want to meet celebrities, sports stars, political leaders, royals, movie actors and artists in one place. Yes, but do not live but in wax. Make a visit to the wax museum in London. There are over 400 figures depicted at Madame Tussauds. All of human size. For those who like horror also visit The Chamber of Horrors.

History
Marie Tussaud (born: Marie Grosholtz) made her first was figure 1777-1778. An image of Francois Voltaire. Marie learned the technique of a doctor named Philippe Curtius who used wax figures to illustrate anatomy. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for him. Philippe ended as a doctor and opened a wax museum in Paris.

Marie worked as an arts administrators to Louis XVI's sister Madame Elisabeth. During this time, she lived
nine years on the magnificent castle in Versailles.

1789 during the French Revolution, she went back to Philippe Curtius in Paris. Philippe was involved in the storming of the Bastille, and this made even Marie Tussaud was accused of treason. It was near that she herself was guillotined, instead she was spared and had to make images of the dead faces.

Philippe died in 1794 and gave all the wax figures to Marie. 1802 Marie moved to London with her one son. The following 33 years, Marie traveled around with his wax dolls, and they exhibited in different places. In the end, she decided to get a room near where today's Wax Museum is located, Baker Street. At this place the waxmuseum opened 1835.

Her last work was an image of himself. That she made six years before her death in 1850, 89 year old. She left her wax dolls inherited by his
two children. Today Madame Tussauds is run by "The Merlin Entertainments Group" and not the Tussauds family.