| Who do you want to meet up with? Angelina Jolie, | | | | original models endured and as a result they can be |
| Madonna, Tiger Woods, Ronald Reagan or even | | | | seen even today in the history exhibit of the museum. |
| Abraham Lincoln? Then meet them all in one place | | | | The oldest wax figure at Madam Tussaud's Waxwork |
| and under one roof; and that’s at Madam | | | | Museum is of Madame du Barry. Also among the very |
| Tussaud's Waxwork Museum. | | | | early sculptures are George III and Benjamin Franklin. |
| Initiated by the famous and enormously skilled wax | | | | The great wax sculptor, Madam Tussaud made a self |
| sculptor Marie Tussaud, the Madam Tussaud's | | | | portrait in 1842 which can be viewed at the entrance |
| Waxwork Museum is situated in London with several | | | | of the Museum. |
| branches located in renowned cities such as Las | | | | Currently Madam Tussaud's Waxwork Museum is |
| Vegas, New York, Berlin, Hong Kong and even | | | | creating a lot of excitement and enthusiasm among |
| Shanghai. | | | | the younger generation since it is now moving towards |
| It was in 1777 that Madam Tussaud fashioned out her | | | | crafting out wax figures of some up and coming |
| initial wax figure that was the sculpture of Voltaire. | | | | younger stars such as Lewis Hamilton. |
| Making it through some challenging times, Tussaud | | | | However the most recent addition that took the world |
| opened her permanent museum in Baker Street, | | | | by storm is the wax figure of the newly appointed |
| London in the year of 1835. The gallery that is open at | | | | president of the United States, Barack Obama. |
| present for public viewing was opened in 1884, thirty | | | | Immense effort goes in to the careful crafting of each |
| years following her demise. However, the gallery that | | | | priceless piece of art which costs over £30,000. It |
| we see today once had 400 original figures which | | | | also takes as long as six months of hard work to |
| were damaged as a result of a fire in 1925 and | | | | complete each model. |
| German bombings in 1941. Luckily, the casts of those | | | | |