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An Apollonaut travel guide
The place behind the detail.
A wax modeller from Strasbourg, a London museum and a Venetian setting on the Strip offer several ways into the story of Madame Tussauds Las Vegas.
On this page
The name above the door
Marie Tussaud, born in Strasbourg in 1761, made her first wax figure in 1777. Her exhibition settled in London by 1835, and the museum moved to Marylebone Road in 1884.
Madame Tussauds opened its first American museum in Las Vegas in 1999.
A Venetian setting
The museum is in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, which opened in May 1999 on the site of the Sands. Outside, copies of the Campanile, the Rialto Bridge and the Doge’s Palace line an outdoor canal.
Inside, gondolas run along an indoor canal beneath a painted sky, past a copy of St Mark’s Square.
Figures for today
Today the museum has more than 70 wax figures in themed areas, from music and film to Las Vegas itself.
This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
