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Friday, May 28, 2010

MADAME TUSSAUD*_* her wax sculptures

From: "TUNA" (tuna.34@gmail.com)
To: Date : May 27, 2010

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It was formerly spelled "Madame Tussaud's", but the apostrophe is no longer used.

Marie Tussaud, born Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761–1850) was born in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was aphysician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling. In 1765, Tussaud made a waxwork of Marie-Jeanne du Barry, Louis XV's mistress. A cast of that mould is the oldest work currently on display. The first exhibition of Tussaud's waxworks was shown in 1770, and attracted a large audience. The exhibition moved to the Palais Royal in Paris in 1776. She opened a second location on Boulevard du Temple in 1782, the "Caverne des Grands Voleurs", a precursor to the later Chamber of Horrors.

Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. In her memoirs she claims that she would search through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. 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 Tussauds. In 1802, she went to 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. For a time, it was displayed at the Lyceum Theatre. From 1831 she took a series of short leases on the "Baker Street Bazaar" (on the west side of Baker Street between Dorset Street and King Street) - which featured in the Druce Portland Case sequence of trials of 1898-1907. This became Tussaud's first permanent home in 1836.

By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum.


Click here to visit Maddame Tussaud Official Website


Here are some of her hand job...


Madame Tussaud herself (This is also a sculpture of her moulding a death mask of Queen Marie)

Lady Diana

Karl Marx (Economist)

Johnny Depp


John Ford Kennedy

Jennifer Lopez

Gorbachov

Late Saddam Hussien

George Clooney


Charlie Chaplin



Bon Jovi


Bob Marley



The Beatles

Ataturk

Late Yasser Arafat

Albert Einstein

Admiral Nelson

12 comments:

  1. i went to the one in London before.. great experience and was fun.. feel free to check out my Madame Tussauds blog post.. =)

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  2. You know what? I feel very jealous of you. Because I can only see them through the internet

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  3. been to MADAM TUSSARD in London! :-)

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  4. Look really like real human. Haha. Omg...Scary when see it during midnight. Haha

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  5. I wish I could be there >.<

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  6. salam,

    teringin nak sampai london
    pernah sampai german je 2007
    hope could b there next...

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  7. hey ain,
    nice pictures
    nanged u too^^

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