Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds began with Marie Tussaud, a French wax sculptor who founded the museum in London in 1835, and her name still carries the whole place. Her figures were built to feel uncannily lifelike, which is why this museum became such a London draw in the Victorian era. One of its earliest headline attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, first appearing in advertising in 1843, when the museum was already leaning into the thrill of celebrity and spectacle. Space on the original Baker Street site ran tight, so in 1883 Joseph Randall, Tussaud’s grandson, commissioned the building here on Marylebone Road. The new galleries opened on 14 July 1884 and proved a success. By 1889, Madame Tussaud & Sons had been incorporated as a private limited company, and the institution kept growing far beyond London. …
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