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 1836.
By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum.
By 1883 the restricted space and rising cost of the Baker Street site prompted her grandson (Joseph Randall) to commission the building at its current location on Marylebone Road. The new exhibition galleries were opened on 14 July 1884 and were a great success. A limited company was formed in 1888 to attract fresh capital but had to be dissolved after disagreements between the family shareholders, and in February 1889 Tussaud's was sold to a group of businessmen led by Edwin Josiah Poyser.
Thus over two centuries the attraction took vast changes in forms, art, location and ownerships.
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Madame Tussauds
Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LR
www.madametussauds.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 871 894 3000*
