“Madame Tussauds Museum” in New York City. It is one of fourteen branches of this museum located around the world. And it all started when Dr. Phillip Curtis, a specialist in making copies of people from wax who lived in Paris, taught his art to Marie Tussauds, who in time surpassed her teacher and in 1794, after his death, inherited his wax collection. The first wax museum opened in 1835 in London. And only in 2000, he appeared in the United States, in the city of Las Vegas, where the museum was waiting for a huge success. That is why a similar exhibition soon opened in New York, housed in a nine-story building in Manhattan. Seven and a half thousand square meters of exhibition space. There are more than four hundred amazing wax replicas of the world’s most famous personalities.
This museum is a colorful show, which involves not only the wax exhibits, but the audience. So that you are not frightened, it is worth saying that here often tease the visitors, putting among the exhibits live actors, celebrities, who are just waiting for visitors to stand next to them to be photographed. Not for nothing, horror movies are often made about wax museums, and guidebooks warn you to be careful not to become one of their exhibits, dying of fright when a seemingly wax figure speaks to you or moves. In the museum you will see wax replicas of real villains, copies of the most famous Hollywood stars, figures of sports, music, politics and characters from famous movies. With any figure you can take a picture, well, except Adolf Hitler, because it was covered with a glass cover to protect it from damage by vandals. The fact is that when in 2008 his copy was exposed in Berlin, a few minutes later Hitler’s head was torn off. And wax replicas are not cheap, as you can see in the laboratory, located on the basement. The museum has an interesting attraction – a 4D movie, which tells about the technique of getting a perfect resemblance of a copy and its prototype.