Meeting a star … an unattainable dream? No longer, thanks to the world-famous Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.
A bit of history
The history of the Madame Tussauds wax museum is more than 200 years old. It all started in Paris in 1770, where the founder of the museum, Marie Grosholtz – Tussauds, learned the intricacies of creating wax figures from her mentor, Dr. Philip Curtis, who was fond of wax figures. The first figures she created were Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
In 1835 Madame Tussauds settled on Baker Street in London and opened her own wax museum. By the way, some of the figures created by her have survived to this day. Initially, the museum exhibited about 400 different figures. However, as a result of a fire in 1925 and bombing in 1941, most of the figures were destroyed. The oldest figure on display at Madame Tussauds in London is the figure of Marie Dubarry, the favorite of the French king Louis XVI.
Interestingly, in 1842 Madame Tussauds made her own figure, which is located to this day at the entrance to the museum in London.
Museum branches
Today there are 20 branches of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum around the world. Among the exhibited figures you can find athletes, show business stars, politicians, members of royal families from different times and eras, and even famous killers, who are allocated a separate room of fear in a museum in London.
The locals who lived “Madame Tussauds” in San Francisco differ from the London version of the museum in their Americanism. If in London a museum is a tribute to officialdom, deliberate glamor, and social brilliance in the person of kings, prime ministers and presidents, then in the States Madame Tussauds is more earthy, but no less interesting.
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in San Francisco has unveiled a wax replica of the internet’s famous Grumpy Cat – which is actually not a cat, but a cat. As noted, the Angry Cat is the first of the feline family to be immortalized in Madame Tussaud’s. The work took the specialists four months, and the cat was made of fiberglass and silicon.
The cat, known on the Internet as Grumpy Cat, is famous for its unusual appearance – it always has a disgruntled expression on its face. The owners attribute this to her congenital dwarfism and malocclusion. The animal’s real name is Tardar Sauce; it was given because of the similarity in color to the tartar sauce, but it was recorded with an error.
Fame came to Tardar in the fall of 2012 after the owner’s brother posted a photo on Reddit with the caption “Meet the angry cat.” The image quickly spread across the web, and Tardar became the Internet meme “Grumpy Cat”. She was six months old at the time.
The popularity of the Angry Cat was so great that both the owner and her brother had to leave their previous jobs. Now they support the cat’s official website and social media pages, as well as attend various events. They were recently invited to Madame Tussauds to take measurements of the famous animal.
Interestingly, the wax figure will be able to perform multiple movements, as well as tour other Madame Tussaud’s galleries in the United States. The cat’s doll will move according to a predetermined program.
Note that “Angry Cat” named Tardar Sos is incredibly popular on the Internet: several hundred thousand subscribers follow the fate of the animal on social networks.
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