From 1831, she took a series of short leases on the upper floor of "Baker Street Bazaar" (on the west side of Baker Street, Dorset Street, and King Street in London). She was unable to return to France because of the Napoleonic Wars, so she traveled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection. She did not fare particularly well financially, with Philidor taking half of her profits. In 1802, she accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
She renamed her show as Madame Tussaud's. She married Francois Tussaud in 1795 and took his surname. For the next 33 years she travelled around Europe with a touring show from the collection. Grosholtz inherited Curtius's vast collection of wax models following his death in 1794. During the Revolution, she made models of many prominent victims. During the French Revolution, she was imprisoned for three months and awaiting execution, but was released after the intervention of an influential friend. At the age of 17, she became the art tutor to Madame Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI of France, at the Palace of Versailles. Grosholtz created her first wax sculpture in 1777 of Voltaire. He moved to Paris and took his young apprentice, then only 6 years old, with him.
Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling beginning when she was a child. Her mother worked for Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modeling. Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Waxwork of Marie Tussaud (sculpting a waxwork) and her memorial plaque at the wax museum she founded in London
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