Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts

香港杜莎夫人蜡像馆~ Madame Tussauds, Hong Kong

October 2012. We plan to spend half a day here at the Peak including visit Madame Tussauds. However we end up browse in quick mode because my nephew terrified by those wax figures which we did not expect lol. So I took pictures of almost 70% to 80% of the celebrity wax figures thinking that maybe I can take a look later when I want - which I doubt I will do that. Anyway I am glad I did that (taking photos) else I probably wont be writing a separate blog post on Madame Tussauds and looking at those photos again right now. The entry ticket cost HKD185 for adult and free admission for children under 3 years old. 




Upon entering the museum via red carpet, you will first greet by paparazzi's camera flashlights and questionairs as if you are one of the superstars lol. Hong Kong actress Sandra Ng 吴君如 was the very first figure we saw when we were inside. The figures are custom made according to the celebrity actual size and she is so skinny in actual.
 

Follow by Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie 


Proud of Malaysia ~ Dato Michelle Yeoh 


Hong Kong actress Cecelia Chueng


Taiwan Singer / actor Jay Chow 


Taiwan Singer / Actress Barbie Hsu 大S 


Hong Kong actor Louis Koo 


Hong Kong Singer Joey Young


Hong Kong singer & actress Kelly Chan 


Hong Kong singer & actor Aaron Kwok


Hong Kong singer & actor Andy Lau ~ my uncle since we have same surname 😆


Chinese actress Fan BingBing


And she is Madame Tussauds


From here we walk down the staircase with photo frames of history of Madame Tussauds Museum hanging both side, to the hall of "The making of..." featuring the process and details of the making of Donny Yen & Jet Li wax figure.


Chinese Kung-fu stars - Jet Li and Donny Yen



One of my favourite actor~ Johnny Deep 
 

James Bond ~ Pierce Brosnan



Audrey Hepburn in her iconic “Little Black Dress” in the opening of the 1961 romantic comedy film Breakfast at Tiffany's.



American actress~ Marilyn Monroe's iconic flying dress during the filming the subway grate scene for The Seven Year Itch in September 1954. 


Diana, Princess of Wales, her wax figure is so elegant just like her!



US President - Barrack Obama in the White House, where Ex-president of US~ George W. Bush is standing at the right corner in the White House staring at him lol.




Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party


Saddam Hussein, the fifth President of Iraq 


Lee Kuan Yew -- the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades. 


Jiang Ze Ming~ President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 - 2003. 


Chairman Mao - Mao Zedong - President of the People's Republic of China (1954–1959)



William Shakespeare~
 


Pablo Picasso~ Spanish painter who spent most of his life in France.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart~



Steve Jobs~ co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple.


Chinese retired professional basketball player - Yao Ming, OMG, he is so tall!


American professional golfer Tiger Woods  


Brazilian footballer~ Ronaldo or Ronaldinho! 



The king of Rock and Roll ~ Elvis Presley. 



The English Rock Band ~ The Beatles, formed in Liverpool in 1960 with members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr,


Hong Kong canton-pop duo~ Twins and the legend or the founding fathers of canton-pop singer and actor ~ Leslie Cheung. 



Lastly~ King of Pop ~ Michael Jackson and Queen of Pop~ Madonna. 



Singapore 2D1N~ National Museum of Singapore

August 2012. Day 2 in Singapore. Visit Museums is one of my interest whether I travel abroad or locally. So I suggest to visit National Museum of Singapore and Gayoon agreed. The admission fee is SGD10 per pax. We top up another SGD1 to view another two special exhibitions~ The Wedding Dress - 200 Years of Wedding Fashion from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Gold Rush - Treasures of Ukraine. We were astonish by the gold that exhibits in Gold Rush. We didn't take any photos in the exhibition hall as we thought it was prohibited. Later only we found out it was the "camera flash" that is prohibited. Anyway, the gold is exhibit in dark room, without flash it is impossible to take nice picture! We skip the wedding dress exhibition as they are having a launching and interviews. 





Before enter into the main exhibition hall, that's the iconic Swinging Chandelier & Glass Passage above us which we did not miss out after we finish viewing all the galleries. The Glass Passage is built entirely of glass, 11m from ground level. One of the world's largest outdoor self-supporting glass structures. The glass ceiling allows visitors has a clear view of the Museum's Palladian and Dome.

There are 2 main gallery - Singapore History Gallery and Singapore Living Galleries. Singapore History Gallery, tells the story of Singapore from its beginnings in the 14th century to the modern period; and Singapore Living Galleries, exhibits food, fashion, film and photography. Instead of follow a museum tour, we choose to walk on our own with the auto visual guide, more flexible and we can skip and view whatever we want.

Singapore History Gallery
The Singapore History Gallery use the story-telling approach to show what the country went through under the Japanese occupation and history of Singapore in the past and to modern days. We snap some pictures while listening to the auto-visual guide when we tour along the 2,800sqm gallery! It took us around 1 hour plus to finish the entire gallery.











Singapore Living Galleries
The Living Galleries with four galleries has more items to view compare to the history gallery. The 1st gallery is Fashion Gallery which exhibits the shifting identities of Singapore women from the 1950s to 1970s. 







Film & Wayang 
We both like this gallery the most. View excerpts of early iconic films, movies paraphernalia and listen to various movie theme songs. Also trace the development of Chinese opera and the emergence of home-grown films as popular entertainment in Singapore.





         





Food Gallery
This section exhibits Singapore's street food life back to 1950s to 1970s. 















Photography - Framing the Family
No offence but this gallery is a bit creepy. The lighting inside this gallery is very dim, I was standing at one of the corner of the gallery trying to get a best shot of all the photo frames, suddenly I had this goose bump attacked. Anyhow I rushed out after this & barely stay more than than 5 mins in this gallery.








          

Lastly, the museum architectural - the Rotunda Dome is also an attraction point to us since we both like heritage budling. Overall, we spent about 3 hours+ at National Museum of Singapore. Although the some of the culture and history are pretty similar to Malaysia's, it's worth for a visit.