Madame Tussauds Old Posters
by Miroslava Jurcik
Title
Madame Tussauds Old Posters
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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In 1801 Marie has sitting with Napoleon to make his wax figure.
By 1835, Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London and opened a museum where Chamber of horrors becomes one of her main attractions. She died in 1850.
However most of her old figures were damage by fire in 1925 and later by German bombs in 1941, but luckily most casts survived. The family business was sold in 1889.
In July 2008, Madame Tussauds' Berlin branch became embroiled in controversy when a 41-year-old German man brushed past two guards and decapitated a wax figure depicting Adolf Hitler to win a bet. The figure was fixed and put back on display. In January 2016, the statue of Adolf Hitler was removed from the London museum in response to an open letter sent by a staff writer of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, followed by significant support for its removal from social media.
I FIND IT APPALLING THAT WE CANNOT VIEW HITLER BECAUSE OF POLITICAL CORRESTNESS !!! Our history is full of mass murderers, slavery, wars, unspeakable crimes. We supposed to learn from it, not hide it. Its like destroying statues, because of our history, its like ISIS destroying ancient buildings, its like burning books in middle ages and hanging people for saying the earth is around.
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April 3rd, 2018
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