The Washington Post reports that famed London wax
museum Madame Tussauds is opening a seventh location, in the former Woodward
& Lothrop department store on 10th and F streets NW in October. We talked
to Stacy Shubert, Madame Tussauds’s New York-based director of marketing, who
said that the museum will occupy 14,000 square feet of the 27,000-square-foot
space upon opening, allowing for room for expansion in the future. The space
will be available for events for as many as 250, and rental rates are currently
being established. Construction on the $16 million project began
in April. Wax figurines currently on tap include Beyoncé, Bill and Hillary
Clinton, and Abe Lincoln, in addition to a life-size replica of the Oval
Office.