Madame Tussaud

Wax Museum
Information
• Marie Tussaud was born 1
December 1761 in 
Strasbourg,
• She is from France

Madame Tussaud’s Panopticon is a wax

museum in London and several major
cities. It was founded by wax sculptor
Marie Tussaud .
Tussaud's first wax figure was Voltaire in 1777.
Other people who were also modeled at this famous time were the figures of Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.He made figures of
many famous victims during the French Revolution. In his memoirs, he claims to have sought
the heads of the beheaded
citizens, from whom he made death masks. After the death of Dr. Curtius in 1794, Tussaud
inherited the doctor’s vast collection of
wax models, then traveled throughout Europe for the next 33 years. Francois Tussaud's
marriage in 1795 gave the exhibition its name
- Madame Tussauds. In 1802 she went to London.
 Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum has grown into one of
the most significant tourist attractions
in London today in the west wing of the London
Planetarium. The number of museums has expanded
and will continue to expand in Amsterdam, Bangkok,
Berlin, Dubai, Hamburg, Hollywood, Hong Kong,
Las Vegas, Moscow, New York, Shanghai, Vienna and
Washington. Today’s wax figures in the
panopticon are also historical and royal figures, movie
stars, athletes and famous killers.