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Title
Louis Tussaud's Wax Museum, Denmark
Description
carries an international tradition one step further. The art of wax portraiture goes back to ancient Egypt. It was also known in early Greece and Rome. The first wax museum as we know them was Madame Tussauds in London, established in the middle of last century.
Garden opened the first Danish Wax Museum with the grandiose name "Scandinavian Panoptikon". It became an immidiate hit with most of the capitals 235.000 inhabitants and remained so for more than twenty years. In 1906 it closed its doors as other attractions claimed the interest of the public. Today, almost one hundered years later, the interest in wax museums all over the world is keener than ever.
Louis Tussaud's opened in Copenhagen in 1974 in the impressive building originally built as an arts and crafts museum and within short time it became one of the most popular attractions for tourists and Copenhageners alike.
