Centuries have passed and the legacy of Madame Tussauds simply waxed and never waned. Under its roof are the famous life-size wax figures of world personalities, politicians, fictional characters and even decapitated corpses and other gruesome relics of the French Revolution. Play with the child Mozart, rub elbows with the British Royal Family, board the Black Pearl with Captain Jack Sparrow or cheer for David Beckham. Possibilities are endless. Real fun begins when the elevator door opens and ushers you inside the many undiscovered worlds.
Madame Tussauds was French-born Marie Grosholz from Strasbourg. She was born in 1761. Marie’s mother was employed by Dr. Philippe Curtius, a wax sculptor who exhibited his wax works in 1770 at the Palais Royale in Paris. The young girl Marie learned the art from him.
Madame Tussauds remains as one of the finest attractions in Central London. This multi-story wax gallery is located beside the London Planetarium. Now under Merlin Entertainment, Madame Tussauds opened other branches in New York City, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Amsterdam. We paid a discounted rate of around 20GBP each for a pass since I had with me a 5GBP discount coupon from Chessington World of Adventure.
Outside the museum were a number of souvenir stores where I bought a calendar and keychains and a burger stand where a male crew called out to us, “Kamusta po kayo?” Funny how Filipinos could smell each other even from a distance.
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