Louis Joseph Kenny Tussaud (1869–1938) was a great-grandson of

Marie Tussaud Anna Maria "Marie" Tussaud (; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850) was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London. Biography Marie Tussaud was born 1 December 1761 in St ...

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s. He worked at Madame Tussauds museum as a wax figure sculptor but left when his brother

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became chief artist and manager of the museum after a limited company was formed in 1888 and sold in 1889. The main shareholder was Edwin Josiah Poyser. Louis Tussaud created a waxwork museum in London, 207 Regent Street, which opened 24 December 1890. The Regent Street waxwork museum was destroyed in a fire on 20 June 1891. He moved to Blackpool in 1900. He first set up a waxworks in Blackpool in the basement of the Hippodrome Theatre, Church Street, opening it in July 1900. The following year, he moved the exhibition to the Brunswick Café, South Shore. In 1929 the Louis Tussaud's Waxworks opened on Central Promenade. It was closed in 2010 and re-opened as Madame Tussauds in 2011. Louis Tussaud wax museums were later established in

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from 1971 to 1983. Other Louis Tussaud's wax museums owned by

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Louis Tussaud's museums are not connected to his great-grandmother's

wax museum nor to the Josephine Tussaud's (1900–1985) wax museum in

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of St. Augustine and the wax museum of Niagara Falls have wax busts representing Louis Tussaud. The wax museum of Bangalore has a full-sized wax figure representing Louis Tussaud.

References

External links

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, San Antonio, Texas

Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, Grand Prairie, Texas

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, Niagara Falls, Canada

Louis Tussaud's Waxworks, Pattaya, Thailand

3 New Venues under Merlin Management
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