The show tries to shake off the morbid feeling of a traditional wax figure cabinet, using multimedia and animatronics. During your visit, you will slowly walk down, ending for the last two floors on a small, grey staircase.
While the Madame Tussauds cashiers are located on the street level, two big elevators bring visitors to upper floors of the building. An enormous roof has been added on the top of the building, to accommodate Claas Janszoon - the world’s largest animatronics’ wax figure, 5 meters (18 feet) tall, greeting you at the very beginning of your visit. Peek & Clopenburg building which houses Tussauds, corresponds in its architecture with the nearby Royal Palace. Visiting with a group? You can arrange your visit with the service organizing Be clever and enjoy Madame Tussaud's buying your tickets online. Madame Tussauds ticketsĮspecially in high season the waiting line can go up to 1,5 hours. Madame Tussauds exhibits exist in several major world cities. Seriously damaged by fires of 19, during the Blitz – WWII German bombings of London, when many valuable figures at the Tussauds just melted, the collection has been rebuilt and today is owned by British amusement parks operator Merlin Entertainment. It included the “Chamber of Horrors” showing figures of victims of the French Revolution and famous criminals, already caught and hanged. The first Tussaud’s cabinet of wax figures opened in London at Baker Street in 1835. Tussaud lived later in London and when she died, her collection counted 400 figures. The story goes, that she made hundreds of death masks and head sculptures of executed aristocrats, often pulling more interesting head from the pile of hundreds decapitated bodies. Taught by her master and skilled herself in waxworks, young woman moved to Paris, married François Tussaud and witnessed the violence of the French Revolution of years 1789 - 1799. Making a wax mask of dead person or casting a model of celebrity’s hand was at the time one of the few ways of preserving the person’s image for future generations and it has been a physician’s job. Born in Strasbourg, France, she moved to Switzerland, where she served as a housekeeper to a physician in Bern. Madame Tussaud was a real person, Anna Maria Grosholtz (1761–1850).
More an attractive ride in an indoor amusement park, than an old fashioned wax figures cabinet, Madam Tussauds in Amsterdam has been modernized, equipped with multimedia effects, set to employ actors and extras and like any amusement park it addresses itself mainly to children and teenage visitors. This statue is the famous Madame Tussauds, the founder of one of the main attractions of England.Īfter visiting the Madame Tussauds Museum and getting acquainted with her painstaking art, you can also visit the British Museum.A popular tourist attraction, Madame Tussauds is located at the Dam square, above Peek & Clopenburg department store. It is a little sharp-nosed old woman, dressed in a black robe. You may find a small inconspicuous figure among all the other famous personalities in the Museum, the geniuses of the past and present years. Sculptors keep their eyes on the ball, so the figures of a new President or a Hollywood star immediately appears in the Museum. Here you can see famous actors, politicians, musicians, scientists, etc. The number of statues in the Museum counts thousands. You may also visit the famous Chamber of Horrors. People from all over the world come here to appreciate the sculptures, which are the unique attractions of the UK. But the head office with the largest collection remains in London. Branches of the Museum are already opened in Amsterdam, New York, Shanghai, and many other cities.
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