At 新世界商城, New World Building (mall), 10F. 99RMB for adults (but someone distributes coupons for 20RMB off at the ticketing booth!? So it becomes 79RMB), and 75RMB for students.
Actually, Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, unlike other museums, does not teach you much. The museum does not teach you how to create the wax figurines, nor does it give you information about the figurines displayed. If anything, the museum shows you who the most renowned people in the world are. So the challenge is, out of perhaps 50 or so figurines, how many can you identify?
It’s cool that they have a zero distance policy, so we can go ahead and hug the figurines all we want. As I appreciatively did.
There were a few simulus machines where you could play virtual reality games such as table-tennis, and the above — something akin to street fighter.
“Wa-tah…!!”
Squareface: In sooth, Wiliam, thy pen can write with speed twice thou feather.
Shakespeare: Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Squareface: So Einstein, tell me, what do you make of the air in Shanghai?
Einstein: Hmph.
Rowena (a friend I made on the plane back to Singapore last year) and I had fun goofing around with the figurines, when we had no intention of going to the museum in the first place. More pictures are with her, so I’ll entertain you again after receiving the pictures from her.
I’ve been to London’s Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (though eons ago, in 1999), and I remember it housed many more figurines, including our MM Lee and PM Lee. I am surprised that Shanghai’s Madame Tussauds doesn’t feature China’s premiere nor president. Perhaps in the next phase.
