Madame Tussauds
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Madame Tussauds is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.
Madame Tussauds has included the former London Planetarium (large dome to the left) since 2006.
Poster for the Tussaud wax figures exhibition, Baker Street, London, 1835
Advertising man pasting a bill for Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, London, 1877
Entrance sign in London
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A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.
Madame Tussauds
…Madame Tussauds (UK: too-SAWDZ, US: too-SOHZ) is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in…
A modern wax sculpture of Cecilia Cheung at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong.
Satyajit Ray at Mother's Wax Museum, Kolkata.
Wax museum in 1792 with the three fathers of the French Revolution, Franklin, Voltaire and Rousseau, installed at Elysium. (musée de la Révolution française)
The Madame Tussauds Museum location in London, England