Address:
Marylebone Road
Phone:
(020) 7935 6861
Hours:
M –F: 10am-5:30pm
Sat: 9:30am-5:30pm
Sun 9:30am-5:30pm
Cost:
Adult: £13.95
Child: £9.50
Senior: £10.80
Official Site
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Overview
 One of London’s top attractions, Madame Tussaud’s is a museum that lets visitors mingle with their favorite movie stars, be counted amongst world leaders, or get a picture with sporting heroes. Actually, all of this is true, only the celebrities are made of wax. These wax figures are incredibly lifelike and, if you get caught in the museum when it is crowded, you may not be able to tell who is real and who is wax, at least for
an eerie moment.
Over two million visitors a year come to see famous and infamous pop stars & and Royalty depicted here in lifelike wax models. The wax figures are placed in new themed areas, including "The Garden Party", "Two Hundred Years of Madame
Tussaud's", "Hollywood Legends" and "The Spirit of London". Stroll through the glittery music room, where Jimi Hendrix and Elton John are right around the corner from Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson. The Royalty room features life-like figures of Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth, to name a few. Get a picture taken with Pope John Paul, the Dalai Lama or even Bill Clinton! Getting close to the stars has never been easier or more fun at Madame
Tussaud's. There's no telling who you will meet.
Marie Grosholtz, who later became Madame Tussaud, founded Madame Tussaud’s in 1835. She learned her skills from her mother"s employer Philippe Curtius, doctor with a talent for wax modeling. Curtius became her mentor and guardian and also introduced Marie to some of the leading luminaries of the time. Today, the wax figures are still painstakingly created, as each model takes up to three months to prepare. And, in the case of creating models of living subjects, the figures must be indistinguishable from the actual person before being approved for display.
 The LONDON PLANETARIUM is an excellent addition to the wax museum and is suitable for all ages. First visitors will check in to the Planet Zone and the Space Zone for an incredible intergalactic journey. Then move on to the Planetary Quest, where the Digistar II and the quest to find a new planet for human habitation await.
Tube: Baker Street Station (Metropolitan, Circle, Jubilee,
Bakerloo and Hammersmith & City Lines)
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