In the portraits of any catastrophe we can find stunning scenes of extreme hardness, desolation and even fear.It is the same as we see in these horrible photos taken after a fire that I destroy the famous Madame Tussauds museum in London in the distant 1925.Do you want to know what happened?
These horrible images were taken after a fire, but they are not what it seems
All museums have a mystery, perhaps the enigmatic objects that are exposed, each with a secret, with a story; They also tell us fantastic legends that dark events of a distant past .And, oddly enough, it is the latter that attracts the most, something that the sculptor Madame Tussauds, Marie Grosholtz, knew how to make a very good profit creating an entire empire through its museums that today we can visit in almost every major city in the world.
But the first of them, opened in London in 1835, lived a terrible fire , practically one hundred years later of its opening, which originated on the top floor of the building causing the collapse of almost the entire roof, with the exception of the large dome located in the westernmost part of the property, although it was very difficult to suffocate, because firefighters did not have nearby hydrants with which to do in front of the flames, which constantly fed on the pieces of the museum, in the end they managed to get hold of the situation and began rescue work inside that infernal furnace in which the museum had become.
The rescue of the museum left these horrible images on the sidewalks of Merylebone Road that, contrary to what it may seem, I do not regret any wounded.And it is that in the Madame Tussauds museum what was exhibited were wax sculptures of the most famous characters of all times, represented so naturally that they touched reality.A realism so surprising that it managed to remain even after it was savagely attacked by the flames.Diversifying the exhibition to a more sinister plane, the one that can be seen after a fire .As if a magical hand had managed to "restructure" the figures to show the horror and tragedy.
Something very striking is that the horror and tragedy are repeated paradoxically, the same feelings that threw fame to its creator, Madame Tussauds, who began her career performing the masks of death.the French Revolution Madame Tussauds and her mother went They were imprisoned and to demonstrate their loyalty to the Revolution they were forced to take molds of the guillotined heads of the nobles and even of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to create the macabre trophies of the Revolution.Trophies that almost miraculously they survived the flames.
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Images: Cezary p, Wassenbeelden Museum , Megan Schmidt-Frede
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