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 2010.
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. Early exhibits included Burke and Hare. The chamber closed on 11 April 2016 and was replaced by the Sherlock Holmes Experience.
Entrance sign in London
Wax museum
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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.
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 Life of Christ Museum is located in Fatima, Portugal