Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: wax museum in London
- Address: Marylebone Road, London
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Royal Academy of Music and Sherlock Holmes Museum.
Royal Academy of Music
University
Photo: Philafrenzy, CC BY 2.0.
The Royal Academy of Music in Westminster, London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. Royal Academy of Music is situated 720 feet east of Madame Tussauds.
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Museum
Photo: Jordan 1972, Public domain.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a privately run museum in London, England, dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It is the world's first museum dedicated to the literary character Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated 880 feet west of Madame Tussauds.
Baker Street tube station
Metro station
Photo: TheFrog001, CC0.
Baker Street is a London Underground station, located at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863. Baker Street tube station is situated 440 feet west of Madame Tussauds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marylebone and Lisson Grove.
Marylebone
Suburb
Photo: Mike Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marylebone is an area in London, England, and is located in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary.
Lisson Grove
Neighborhood
Photo: Phillip Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lisson Grove is a street and district in the City of Westminster in London, England. The neighbourhood contains a few important cultural landmarks, including Lisson Gallery, Alfies Antique Market, Red Bus Recording Studios, the former Christ Church, now the Greenhouse Centre, Stringers of London and the Seashell of Lisson Grove.
Fitzrovia
Suburb
Photo: Thegiantrodent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fitzrovia is a district of central London, England, near the West End. Its eastern part is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster.
Madame Tussauds
- Categories: wax museum, building, tourism, and commercial building
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5229° or 51° 31′ 22″ northLongitude
-0.15487° or 0° 9′ 18″ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Levels
1Open location code
9C3XGRFW+53OpenStreetMap ID
way 684695074OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Madame Tussauds” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Madame Tussauds”
- Arabic: “تحف مدام توسو”
- Arabic: “متحف الشمع”
- Arabic: “متحف مدام توساد”
- Arabic: “متحف مدام توسو”
- Arabic: “متحف مدام توسود”
- Arabic: “متحف مدام تيسو”
- Arabic: “متحف مدام تيسود”
- Arabic: “مدام توسو”
- Armenian: “Մադամ Տյուսոյի թանգարան”
- Azerbaijani: “Madam Tüsso muzeyi”
- Azerbaijani: “Madam Tüsso”
- Basque: “Madame Tussauds”
- Bengali: “মাদাম তুসো জাদুঘর”
- Bosnian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Bulgarian: “Мадам Тюсо”
- Catalan: “Madame Tussauds”
- Catalan: “Museu de Madame Tussaud”
- Central Bikol: “Madame Tussauds”
- Central Kurdish: “مەدام توسو”
- Chinese: “杜沙夫人蠟像館”
- Chinese: “杜莎夫人蜡像馆”
- Chinese: “杜莎夫人蠟像館”
- Czech: “Muzeum voskových figurín Madame Tussaud”
- Danish: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- Danish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Dutch: “Madam Tussaud”
- Dutch: “Madame Tussaud”
- Dutch: “Madame Tussauds”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف مدام تيسو”
- Esperanto: “Muzeo Madame Tussauds”
- Finnish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Finnish: “Madame Tussaudsin vahakabinetti”
- French: “Madame Tussaud”
- French: “Madame Tussauds”
- French: “Musée de Madame Tussauds”
- French: “Musée Madame Tussauds”
- Galician: “Madame Tussauds”
- Georgian: “მადამ ტიუსოს მუზეუმი”
- German: “Grosholtz”
- German: “Madame Tussaud’s Wachsfigurenkabinett”
- German: “Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum”
- German: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- German: “Madame Tussaud”
- German: “Madame Tussauds Wachsfigurenkabinett”
- German: “Madame Tussauds”
- German: “Philippe Curtius”
- German: “Tussaud”
- German: “Wachsfiguren-Kabinett”
- German: “Wachsfigurenausstellung der Madame Tussand,”
- Greek: “madame tussads”
- Gujarati: “મેડમ તુસાદ સંગ્રહાલય”
- Hausa: “Madame Tussauds”
- Hebrew: “מאדאם טוסו”
- Hebrew: “מדאם טוסו”
- Hebrew: “מוזיאון מאדאם טוסו”
- Hindi: “मैडम तुसाद संग्रहालय”
- Hungarian: “Madame Tussaud panoptikuma”
- Indonesian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Irish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Italian: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- Italian: “Madame Tussaud”
- Italian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Japanese: “マダム・タッソー”
- Japanese: “マダム・タッソー蝋人形館”
- Japanese: “マダム・タッソー館”
- Japanese: “マダムタッソー”
- Javanese: “Madame Tussauds”
- Korean: “마담 투소”
- Latvian: “Tiso kundzes Vaska figūru muzejs”
- Lithuanian: “Madam Tiuso muziejus”
- Malay: “Madame Tussauds”
- Malayalam: “Madame Tussauds”
- Malayalam: “മാഡം ട്യുസോ വാക്സ് മ്യൂസിയം”
- Malayalam: “മാഡം ട്യൂസോ വാക്സ് മ്യൂസിയം”
- Marathi: “मादाम तुसो संग्रहालय”
- Marathi: “मॅदाम तुस्सॉ संग्रहालय”
- Mongolian: “Мадам Тюссо музей”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madam Tussaud”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madame Tussaud”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Madame Tussauds”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Madame Tussauds”
- Norwegian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Panjabi: “ਮੈਡਮ ਤੁਸਾਦ ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ”
- Persian: “مادام توسو”
- Persian: “موزه مادام توسو”
- Persian: “موزهٔ مادام توسو”
- Polish: “Madame Tussaud’s”
- Polish: “Muzeum Figur Woskowych Madame Tussaud w Londynie”
- Polish: “Muzeum Figur Woskowych Madame Tussaud”
- Portuguese: “Madame Tussaud”
- Portuguese: “Madame Tussauds”
- Portuguese: “Museu Madame Tussauds”
- Romanian: “Madame tussaud’s”
- Romanian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Russian: “Мадам Тюссо”
- Russian: “Музей восковых фигур мадам Тюссо”
- Russian: “Музей мадам Тюссо”
- Russian: “Музей тюссо”
- Scots: “Madame Tussauds”
- Serbian: “Madam Tiso”
- Serbian: “Мадам Тисо”
- Serbian: “Музеј воштаних фигура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Sicilian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Sinhala: “මැඩම් ටුසූ”
- Slovak: “Múzeum voskových figurín Madame Tussaudovej”
- Slovenian: “Madame Tussauds”
- Spanish: “Madame Tussaud’s Las Vegas”
- Spanish: “Madame Tussauds Las Vegas”
- Spanish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Spanish: “Museo Madame Tussaud”
- Spanish: “Museo Madame Tussauds”
- Swedish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Swedish: “Marie Tussaud”
- Swedish: “Tussaud, Anne Marie”
- Tamil: “மேடம் துசாட்ஸ்”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์มาดามทุสโซ”
- Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์หุ่นขี้ผึ้งมาดามทุสโซ”
- Thai: “มาดามทุสโซ”
- Turkish: “Madame Tussaud”
- Turkish: “Madame Tussauds”
- Turkish: “Madamme Tussauds”
- Turkish: “Tussaud Müzesi”
- Ukrainian: “Музей мадам Тюссо”
- Urdu: “مادام تساؤ”
- Vietnamese: “Madame Tussauds London”
- Western Armenian: “Մատամ Թիւսo (թանգարան)”
- Western Armenian: “Մատամ Թիւսo”
- Western Panjabi: “مادام تساؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “杜莎夫人蜡像馆”
- Yiddish: “מאדאם טוסא”
- Yue Chinese: “杜莎夫人蠟像館”
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