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An Apollonaut travel guide
A museum on International Drive.
An introduction to International Drive, where Madame Tussauds Orlando stands at ICON Park beside a 400-foot observation wheel.
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Read the street
Madame Tussauds Orlando is at 8387 International Drive, in the ICON Park complex. The Orange County Convention Center is 1.3 miles away, and many of the hotels along International Drive are within walking distance.
A city guide can give context without turning a neighbourhood into a backdrop. Notice how hotels, restaurants and attractions line the street, and how the wheel above ICON Park helps people find their way.
Wax, hair and paint
A wax figure is a work of many hands: sculpting, casting, colouring and setting hair, then dressing and posing the figure in a scene.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made. A photograph alone cannot tell you who modelled a face or set each hair, or how long the work took.
A museum chapter
Madame Tussauds Orlando shows one side of modern Orlando: a complex of attractions built along International Drive from 2015.
Look at the meeting of the two: a craft that began in eighteenth-century Paris, and a busy entertainment street in Central Florida.
Make room for context
Pair this city reading with the museum’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
