Madame Tussauds

Madame Tussauds is a world famed wax museum displaying true-to-life models of important people past and present, from political and cultural leaders to movie and music stars and major athletes.  Its founder and namesake, Madame Marie Tussaud, was a French wax artist in the late-18th and early-19th centuries who modeled the death masks of aristocrats killed in the French Revolution, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.  Madame Tussaud moved to Britain in the early 1800s and started her original museum in London, showing models of leading statesmen and opening the popular “Chamber of Horrors,” displaying fearsome criminals and the victims of the Revolution.  Today Madame Tussauds has branches around the world, opening its New York City museum in 2000 in the heart of Times Square.

• Take a picture with President Obama, Reagan and others
• Measure up to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and more world leaders
• Strike a pose with Madonna
• Face off with Muhammad Ali
• See if you can handle Simon Cowell’s stare
• Stand face-to-face with Benjamin Franklin, modeled with the help of Madame Tussaud’s original, 200-year old molds