Madame Tussauds has opened many smaller size wax museums in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New-York, Nashville, Orlando, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, and Washington DC. Madame Tussaud's wax museum has now become a major tourist attraction in London. Madame Tussauds died in London in 1850 at the age of 88. During the French Revolution she was imprisoned for three months awaiting execution, but was released after the intervention of an influential friend.Īfter many adventures, in 1835, Marie Tussaud settled down in Baker Street, London and opened a museum.
At the age of 17 she became the art tutor to King Louis XVI of France’s sister, Madame Elizabeth, at the Palace of Versailles. Tussaud created her first wax sculpture in 1777 of Voltaire. He moved to Paris and took his young apprentice, 6 years old, with him. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modeling. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Marie Tussaud was born in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Children will like the museum and be excited by its deforming mirrors. The Grévin Wax Museum also features a mirage room and a magic trick theater. You will specially admire the realistic scenes from the dramatic 1789 French revolution. Located on the animated Paris right bank boulevards, the Grévin Museum also features spectacular wax scenes from French history. Many other well known people from the past and today will welcome you as if they were real, sometimes even confusing you. Meet in Grévin actors as Marylin Monroe and Charlie Chaplin, musicians as Louis Amstrong, Edith Piaf and the Rolling Stones. In Grévin Museum, you find political leaders such as Charles de Gaulle and Emmanuel Macron from France, Barak Obama and Donald Trump from the USA, Angela Merkel from Germany and Vladimir Putin from Russia.
The museum brings back in front of you great people and events of history in realistic wax copies. Grévin Wax Museum was founded in 1882 on the model of Madame Tussauds.
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