
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London Tour 8 August. A brief footage of one of the several videos shot at Madame Tussauds , Wax museum London. Lack of light and flash disrupted white balance. ( sorry about that). Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars, musicians, Fashion celebrities, Politicians and famous people. Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud (Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761--1850) French). Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. Following the doctor's death in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years travelling around Europe. Her marriage to François Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the show: Madame Tussaud's. In 1802, she went to London having accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. As a result of the Franco-British war, she was unable to return to France, so she travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. From 1831 she took a series of short leases on the upper floor of "Baker Street Bazaar" (on the west side of Baker Street between Dorset Street and King Street). This became Tussaud's first permanent home in <b>...</b>
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