MADAME TUSSAUD’S

MUSEUM
Marie Tussaud was a French
artist known for her wax
sculptures. She was born in
France in the 18th century. Her
Farther, a soldier, was killed in
the Seven Year’s War just two
months before Marie was born.
Her mother was a housekeeper
for Dr. Phillippe Curtius, who
was a physician skilled in wax
modelling.
MADAM MARIE TUSSAUD
Curtius taught Marie the art
of wax modelling. She started
to work for him and showed a
lot of talent. During the
French Revolution, Marie
made death masks of royalty
and decapitated
revolutionaries. When Curtius
died in 1794, he left his
collection of waxworks to
Marie.
 In 1802 Marie Tussaud
went to London together
with her husband. She
traveled with her collection
throughout GB and Ireland.
She established her first
permanent exhibition in
Baker Street in 1835.
Now Madame Tussaud’s
wax museum is one famous
tourist attractions in
London.
Here you can meet great
characters of history and art.
Actors, film stars, pop-
singers and sportsmen come
face to face with famous
politicians.
Let us just look.
Madame Tussaud’s is the most popular wax museum in
the world. There are wax models of the famous and
infamous, both living and dead, from every walk of life.
David Beckham, Madonna, Elvis Presley, the Beatles,
Charlie Chaplin … There is no other place where you can
see all the celebrities at once, even if they are only wax
figures.
THE MUSEUM HAS ITS
BRANCHES IN A
NUMBER OF MAJOR
CITIES IN THE
WORLD.
IN AMSTERDAM
IN BERLIN
IN NEW-YORK
 The wax figures are
standing and sitting, and
sometimes even moving
and talking. Computer-
controlled figures are
especially popular with the
visitors.
There are several halls at Madame Tussaud’s.
The Grand Hall, the Chamber of Horrors and
‘The Spirit of London’ exhibition.
 THE GRAND HALL
IN THE GRAND HALL YOU WILL FIND ALL KINDS OF CELEBRITIES,
FROM PRESIDENTS TO POP STARS.
There is a special place for the Royal Family here too.
The politicians A very strange company
stand in solemn indeed: Winston Churchill,
silence watching Adolph Hitler, Joseph
Stalin, Tony Blair, Vladimir
each other.
Putin…
New models are
being produced
all the time while
the old ones are
quietly removed
from display.
 Over the years hundreds of celebrities have made their way
to Madame Tussaud’s studio. Most people agree to be
portrayed but some refuse. Mother Teresa was one of the few
who refused saying her work was important, not her person.
 THE CHAMBER OF HORROR
THE CHAMBER OF HORRORS IS PROBABLY THE EERIEST PLACE IN THE
WHOLE MUSEUM. NO WONDER VISITORS ARE QUIETER THERE THAN
IN OTHER PLACES.
Dracula greets you at the entrance to the dark cellar
full of villains and their victims, as well as the
instrument of torture.

.
Here you can
also see Madame
Tussaud’s
original
exhibition of
relies from the
French
Revolution – the
death masks of
French nobility
and the
guillotine blade
that was used to
behead Marie
Antoinette…
 THE SPIRIT OF
LONDON:
‘The spirit of London’
exhibition covers a
period of more than
400 years and spans
London’s history from
Elizabethan times to
the present day.
Sights, sounds and
even smells of
combine to tell you
the colourful story of
Britain’s capital city.
Visitors climb into a
‘Time Taxi’ and
begin their historical
journey…

First you visit an

Elizabethan theatre, then
an old tavern where the
great Shakespeare is
working at Hamlet…
 You’ll go through the Plague and
the Great Fire, you’ll see St. Paul’s
Cathedral being built…
There are more than 70 figures in
‘The Spirit of London’ exhibition.
Many of them are animated: they
‘breathe’, talk and move.
 DID YOU KNOW?
• It costs about 40, 000 dollars to make a wax figure at Madame
Tussaud’s.
• Queen Elizabeth II has been modeled 17 times – more than anyone
else – each time with a new head.
 YOU CAN ALSO
SEE AT MADAME
TUSSAUD’S
MUSEUM…
DAVID
AND
VICTORIA
BECKHAM
Arnold Schwarzenegger
CHRISTINA
AGUILERA
 Angelina Jolie

Angelina
Jolie &
Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt
Sh
rek
Julia Roberts
TOM CRUISE
MADONNA
Hu
lk
Henry
VIII
ALBERT
EINSTEIN
SPIDERMAN
TONY
BLAIR
MICHAEL
JACKSON
Charli
e

Chaplin