Madame Tussaud's

Marie Tussaud (1761-1850), née Marie Grosholtz (sometimes spelled Grossholtz or Grossholz), learned her trade from Philippe Curtius who was running his own wax museum in Palais Royal[?], Paris. He and Marie Tussaud created wax heads out of heads of the victims of guillotine during the French Revolution. Curtius died 1794.

In 1802 Marie Tussaud moved to London with her 4-year-old son and established her first permanent exhibition in Baker Street[?] in 1835. It moved to its current location on the Marylebone Road in 1884.

Wax figures of the Tussaud's includes historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and famous murderers.