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 Where
can you go to see movies and TV stars, pose with singers and sports
players? No not at a live concert or a celebrity's party, yet this place
is as star-studded as the red carpet for the Grammy Awards. Stop guessing
it is no other than Madame Tussauds Wax Museums on 42nd street in Manhattan
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Here the celebrities have to pose with you for your camera and you get
to spend as much time as you'd like with them (because they're wax),
that's probably why so many tourists flock to this museum. I've personally
gone to the museum 3 times and each time they've had different people
greeting you at the door such as Whoopi Goldberg and President Bush.
There's so much to see at this museum it's unbelievable. As you enter
the museum you walk up the steps you see wax people on the steps. You
proceed to an elevator, which takes you high above the city streets
to a dinning hall that's chock full of stars such as Bradd Pitt, Oprah
Winfrey, Christopher Reeves, and Governor Pataki. Next you exist to
the left, which leads you to a reenactment of the French Revolution
during the late 1700's. Here you see dead bodies flung on top of one
another, heads on sticks, and loud war sounds. Lights masterfully recreated
this period in history.
 When
you leave this room you enter a room that shows the process of making
a wax person. From the exact eye color to the clothes and position the
wax person is in, everything is done prolifically. The next room is
actually a big white hall filled with presidents, poets, and governmental
figures such as Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, The Kennedy's,
and Princess Diana.
As an added treat, visitors step into a movie theater, which bears striking
resemblance to a New York City hotel lobby. The movie takes place on
New Years Eve in New York. As you take a carriage to Times Square, your
taken back in time throughout New York's as by most memorable moment's.
It's no doubt delightful and an amusing movie.
However all that I have so far described didn't just appear out of nowhere
there's a rich history behind it. The First Wax Museum was founded by
Madame Tussaud's herself. She was born in France in the 1761. Her uncle
taught her the craft of waxing and she had natural talent. Later on
during the French Revolution she was called upon to go through piles
of dead, decapitated bodies and find heads to make masks. However she
later left France in order to establish a wax exhibition in England.
How did it get here? Well an American showman visited it and wanted
to buy it and move it to NY. Now 200 yrs. after her death it has come
to Manhattan giving us a chance to experience this unique craft.
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