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Leggi e ascolta. Madame Tussaud and her wax museum Wax model of Robert Pattinson Wax model of Rihanna Wax model of Harry Styles High Five Level 2 . Unit 2, Culture club p. 29 © Oxford University Press PHOTOCOPIABLE Where can you kiss your hero, dance with a pop star or meet a famous person from the past? At Madame Tussauds, of course! Madame Tussauds is a very popular museum in London. In the museum there are hundreds of wax models of famous people. The models are very realistic. Their hair and eye colour and physical features are identical to the real people. The museum is one of London’s top tourist attractions with over 2.5 million visitors a year. Who was Madame Tussaud? Marie Tussaud was born in 1761 in France. Her mother was a servant in a doctor’s house. The doctor had a lot of wax models of the human body. Marie learnt to make wax models and she was soon popular for her models of famous people. For some years Marie’s life was good and she had a lot of important friends. But, during the French Revolution, Marie was unpopular and she was in prison for a little while because she worked for the King. In 1802, there was an important exhibition of Marie’s work in London. For the next 33 years, she had exhibitions in towns and cities in Britain and Ireland. In 1835, there was a permanent Madame Tussauds museum in London. Today there are Madame Tussauds museums all over the world! You can visit them in Hollywood, New York, Las Vegas, Berlin, Bangkok, Shanghai and other major cities! High Five Level 2 . Unit 2, Culture club p. 29 © Oxford University Press PHOTOCOPIABLE.

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