subject: Madame Tussauds Wax Museum: Creativity Never Ends [print this page] If you want to see your favorite stars may be they belong to Hollywood or bollywood or from anywhere else, then Madame Tussauds Wax Museum is the best place for it. This is a wax museum that is located in London and offers plenty of attractions inside. So take a long break from your daily schedule, and head to explore this magnificent attraction of London, Europe that not only lets you to meet your favorite stars, but also offers you other options to see and experience.
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum today has achieved immense popularity throughout the world and is growing rapidly with its different branches in different major cities. Marie Tussaud, the wax sculptor, set up this museum. She was the woman who worked hard right from her childhood to see her dreams come true. Luckily or say due to her potential and hard work has resulted into a major wax museum in the world that with a powerful identity. In the year 1835, Marie was settled in Baker Street, which is in London and then she opened a museum. Before this, she used to exhibit her work at various events in the world and Europe.
While exploring the museum, you are bound to explore and experience among the major attractions of the museum that is the Chamber of Horrors. This will truly give you a thrilling experience for the lifetime. This part of the exhibition actually comprises of the French Revolution and also the recently created figures of the murderers as well as the other criminals. Some of the other well-known people were included to the exhibition like Horatio Nelson, and also Sir Walter Scott.
You will feel lucky to see the sculptures that are kept in the display even today and were made by Marie Tussaud herself. The gallery of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum originally includes 400 various kinds of figures. However, due to the major fire broke out in the year 1925 has damaged most of them. Also, the German bombs in the year 1941 is another reason of damage. Still after this, the museum has survived well and is flourishing its beauty to every people who come to explore it. The figures that were defunct due to the damage were kept in the historical waxworks to be remade in the casts. So enjoy seeing the casts in the history exhibit of the museum.
The oldest figure that you can see on the display is of Madame du Barry. Besides this, the other ancient faces that you can explore here are of Robespierre, Benjamin Franklin, and George III. In the year 1842, marie Tussaud has made a self portrait that could be found now on display and is placed at the entrance of the museum. Even though, Marie Tussaud has died in her sleep (15 April 1850), but still you can feel her existence at every corner of the museum.
The figures look so real that you cannot even distinguish the original person with their wax made figure. So enjoy taking as much pictures of yours with your favorite stars as you can. Well, you cannot escape out of saying that the creativity never ends.
