The waxwork founder Madame Tussaud was born in which city?

The woman known throughout Britain as Madame Tussaud was born Anna Marie Gresholtz on December 7, 1761, in Strasbourg, a city located in the Alsace region between Germany and France.

After Madame Tussaud moved to Bern, Switzerland, she learned the art of wax sculpting from Curtius, who had become quite skilled in the art of making anatomical models used in medical-school classes.

Many of the figures that Tussaud displayed were French luminaries who had died on the guillotine, and this was a subject of intense fascination for the English middle classes.

In 1835, Tussaud set up her first permanent exhibition space on Baker Street in London, between Dorset and King streets. The museum featured tableaux of famous historical events, such as coronations and peace treaties, and Tussaud staffed the cash table personally until her death.

Her museum became one of London's most visited tourist attractions, and remained so well into the twenty-first century. The exhibits at Madame Tussaud's, still located on Baker Street, are regularly updated to reflect current events and entertainers who have attained celebrity status, and members of England's royal family permit museum personnel to take photographs and measurements to update the likenesses that are on permanent display at Tussaud's in London.