Madame Tussauds Shanghai 上海杜莎夫人蜡像馆

Today we went to the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Shanghai at Nanking West Road 南京西路2-68号. It is at the 10th floor of the 新世界商厦 just directly in front of the People Square.

Simple map from brochures

More information pertaining to this wax museum can be found in this Chinese only website:
http://www.madame-tussauds.com.cn/

We paid RMB260 for family package of entrance ticket which included 2 adults and 1 child who is less than 1.2m tall. Seems that unlike other places, they actually charge kids below 1.2m for RMB80 per person. Normal 1 adult fare is RMB135, thus it is more worth it to buy the family package instead.

Family package entrance tickets

A crowded lift took us up to the 10th floor of the building where the wax museum is. Trust me it was really really crowded. The view was not bad though where we could see the People's Square just across the streets.

Front of building (left) View from the top (right)

Immediately after the entrance, the first hall displays all the famous actress, actors and people. You can have a drink and chat with Bill Gates and Lee Kar Seng.

This section is called 魅力（银幕下的魅力）:

Rosamund Kwan 关之琳

Rosamund Kwan (born September 24, 1962) is a Chinese actress born in Hong Kong. She is the daughter of Shaw Brothers star Kwan San and actress Cheung Bing Sai.

Bill Gates 比尔·盖茨

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest person (as of 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.

Li Ka Shing 李嘉诚

Sir Li Ka-shing, GBM, KBE born June 13, 1928, is a wealthy businessman from Hong Kong. He is the richest person of Chinese descent in the world, one of the richest and most influential investors in Asia, and the eleventh richest man in the world according to Forbes with an estimated wealth of $26.5 billion on February 11, 2008. Presently, he is the Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL) and Cheung Kong Holdings in Hong Kong.

Cecilia Cheung 張柏芝

Cecilia Cheung is a Eurasian actress and Cantopop singer based in Hong Kong. She is wife of Nicholas Tse.

Michelle Yeoh 杨紫琼

Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she is based in Hong Kong and was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997. She is best known for her roles in the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Award-winning Chinese action film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, for which she was nominated the BAFTA for "Best Actress".

Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV born July 3, 1962, more commonly known to the media as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards.

Pretty Woman...

Behind the scene section 在幕后：

Famous movie stars' hand prints

Marie Tussaud 玛丽·格劳舒兹

Marie Grosholtz was born (Marie Tussaud) 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modeled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.

The section on Famous People 名人（世界舞台）：

Astronaut Ai Yoong and Bernard

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) was the first person to set foot on the Moon.

Albert Einstein 爱因斯坦

Albert Einstein born in March 14, 1879 was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Chen-Ning Franklin Yang 杨振宁

Chen-Ning Yang is a Chinese-born American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. In 1957, at the age of 35, he and Tsung-Dao Lee received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory that weak force interactions between elementary particles did not have parity (mirror-reflection) symmetry.

Princess Diana

Diana, Princess of Wales born July 1, 1961 was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare born 26 April 1564 was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").

The Oscar winners this round are: Bernard, Ai Yoong and Ethan!! Congratulation...

President Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) served as the forty-second President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

Other celebrities on display...

The section on Music 音乐（后台）：

Teresa Teng 邓丽君

Teresa Teng recorded many notable songs, including "When Will You Return?" 何日君再来. In addition to her Mandarin repertoire, she also recorded songs in Taiwanese, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian, and English.

Elvis Presley 猫王 - King of Rock & Roll with Ethan

Elvis Aaron Presley born January 8, 1935 middle name sometimes written Aron,a was an American singer, musician and actor. He is considered a cultural icon, sometimes referred to as "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King".

Micheal Jackson 迈克尔·杰克逊

Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958) is an American musician and entertainer. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of eleven as a member of The Jackson 5. Jackson began a solo career in 1972; he became a pop icon and was named the "King of Pop" in subsequent years.

Twins - Ah Sa & Ah Gil

Twins is a Hong Kong-based female Cantopop duo created in the summer of 2001 by Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG). Twins is made up of two girls, Charlene Choi Cheuk-Yin 蔡卓妍 and Gillian Chung Yan-Tung 钟欣桐.

Anita Mui 梅艳芳

Anita Mui Yim-fong was a popular Hong Kong cantopop singer and actress.

Coco Lee 李玟

Ferren Lee-Kelly (born January 17, 1976), popularly known as Coco Lee, is a world renowned Chinese singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She is the first and only Asian artist to have multiple top-three singles in the MTV Asia Hitlist. "Do You Want My Love" also entered the music charts in America and the entire album, "Just No Other Way" gave Coco a break in the English market.

The section on Chinese Movie 电影（中国的电影）：

Bruce Lee 李小龙

Bruce Lee born in November 27, 1940 was an American-born martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form.

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger born July 30, 1947 is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, Golden Globe-winning actor, businessman and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California.

James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in 12 novels and two short story collections.

Kelly Chen 陈慧琳

Kelly Chen is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress.

Charlie Chaplin 查理·卓别林

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin born in 16 April 1889, better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an Academy Award-winning English comedic actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable director, composer and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered one of the finest mimes and clowns ever captured on film.

Leslie Cheung 张国荣

Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing born September 12, 1956, nicknamed elder brother (哥哥), was an actor and musician from Hong Kong. Cheung was considered as "One of the founding fathers of Cantopop," and "combining a hugely successful film and music career".

Audrey Hepburn 奥黛丽·赫本

Audrey Hepburn born May 4, 1929 was an English Academy Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning film and stage actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian.

Marilyn Monroe 玛丽莲·梦露

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; baptised Norma Jeane Baker June 1, 1926 ), was an American actress, singer and film producer.

张艺谋 (导演) and 冯小刚 (电影编导、导演)

The section on Speed 速度（方程式赛车）：

Aryton Senna 埃尔顿·赛纳

Ayrton Senna da Silva was a Brazilian racing driver and triple Formula One world champion (1988, 1990, 1991).

Comes to the section for Sports Athletes of excellence 运动（冠军级人物）:

Guo Jingjing 郭晶晶

She is a female diver from the People's Republic of China. Guo represented China at the 2004 Summer Olympics, earning a gold medal in the 3 metre women's synchronized springboard along with Wu Minxia before finally winning her first individual Olympic gold in the 3 metre women's springboard.

Liu Xiang 刘翔

Liu's 2004 Olympic gold medal was China's first in a men's track and field event. Furthermore he is the first Chinese athlete to achieve the "triple crown" of athletics (World Record Holder, World Champion and Olympic Champion) concurrently.

Li Xiaoshuang 李小双

Li Xiaoshuang born November 1, 1973 is a Chinese gymnast and Olympic champion. When he arrived at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was a talented, but relatively unknown 18-year-old. He ended up leaving the Olympics with three medals. His most notable achievement was the gold medal he won on floor exercise due in large part to the rare triple-back somersault he executed in his first pass.

Seems that Louis Koo Tin Lok and Jolin Tsai's new wax statues has been available for public viewing at Shanghai's Madam Tussaud's since February 2008. We reached this section of the museum which displayed various artist and ads of Pepsi.

Jolin Tsai 蔡依林

Jolin Tsai is a Golden Melody Award winning Taiwanese Mandopop singer.

Louis Koo 古天乐

Louis Koo Tin-Lok, born January 21, 1970 in Hong Kong is a Chinese actor. He was once a notable local TV drama series actor, winning TVB's Best Actor award in 1999 for Detective Investigation Files IV.

The above are some other attraction at the Pepsi display section.

Finally the end of the tour and near the exit.

2 shot with Andy Lau 刘德华

Before we left the final exit, we managed to take a memorable shot with Andy Lau. After which it was going back down the crowded lift once again and bade Sayonara.