Madam tussaud’s museum

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MADAM
TUSSAUD’S
MUSEUM
Sharova Ann,
Form 5.5, Lyceum №36,
Saratov

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Madam Tussaud’s
Exhibition was opened
on its present site in
Marylebone Road in
1884.
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Marie Tussaud spent her
early life in France where she
learned the art of wax modelling
from her uncle.
She went to England in 1802,
taking some of her best figures.
She exhibited them in London and
provinces. Her best work was a
self-portrait. It reveals her as a
small and unsmiling old woman.
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Many of the original
models made by Marie
Tussaud are still
preserved.
Voltaire
Benjamin
Franklin
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The exhibition consists of a series of halls. In the first
hall is the famous “Sleeping Beauty” with a mechanism that
simulates breathing.
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The second hall
is known as the
Conservatory.
Visitors can view lifesize wax models of sport,
film and TV personalities.
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Next to the Conservatory is the Grand Hall. You can see
historical, political, military and royal figures here.
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The next hall is the
most famous of the wax
rooms: the Chamber of
Horrors. The visitors are
quieter there than in other
places. Its models are
illustrating methods of
executions. Prisoners are
in cells. Maybe because
of that hall many find the
museum gruesome and
frightening.
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Despite the criticism, Madam Tussaud’s is
one of the London’s top tourist attraction. Millions
of tourists visit the unusual waxwork exhibition.
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attention!