Madame Tussaud’s grandson, Joseph Randall, opened the Madame Tussauds waxwork exhibition on London’s Marylebone Road on July 14th 1884. Madame Tussaud died in 1850, but her name is unlikely to be forgotten.
The waxwork exhibition in London became one of the oddest tourist attractions in the city. Some 500 million people have visited the museum ever since then.
Visitors, now and then, file past replicas of the famous and the pleasure is in getting close and seeing just how tall they are, before having a photograph taken cuddling up to Amy Winehouse of Barack Obama. Judging bny the length of the queues outside the attraction, knowing what the famous look like, and seeing their likenesses online and in print every day, has not diminished the USP of this place.
Now, Madame Tussaud’s waxworks are a global phenomenon. There are nine other Madame Tussauds around the wold, including branches in Shanghai and Las Vegas.