Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, Shanghai

Hi everyone! Today I'm happy to share the photos I took at the Shanghai branch of Madame Tussaud's wax museum. Here we go!

Here's the entrance.

Thor

Spiderman

So the problem with going to a wax museum in China is there are a lot of Chinese stars I don't know. Like in this picture, which are the famous wax people and which are the customers? Okay I'll tell you the answer: The woman in the pink is Dee Hsu, and the man in the colorful suit is Kevin Tsai, they are Taiwanese talk show hosts. (The others are flesh-and-blood humans.)

Yang Liping, a Chinese dancer, plus an admirer

Vicki Zhao, a Chinese actress

Tiger Woods

Kobe Bryant. The NBA is really popular in China.

Michael Jordan

Yao Ming is super-tall

Everyone wants to get their picture with Yao Ming

Liu Xiang, Chinese Olympic gold medalist hurdle runner

Guo Jingjing, Chinese Olympic diver

Li Xiaoshuang, Chinese Olympic gymnast

Nie Weiping, Chinese go champion

David Beckham wax figure and two actual humans

Sun Li, Chinese actress

Arnold Schwarzenegger wax figure (right) and actual human (left)

Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director

Bruce Lee wax figure (right) and actual human (left)

Sylvester Stallone

Pierce Brosnan and a random passerby

Marilyn Monroe

Li Yundi, Chinese pianist

Kelly Chan, Hong Kong singer

Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer

Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer, and who's that in the back- the Chinese version of Bruno Mars? It's Aaron Kwok, another Hong Kong singer.

Lady Gaga

Elvis

Princess Diana and an admirer

This girl really likes Winston Churchill

Vladimir Putin

You can get your picture taken with a really young Obama

Chen-Ning Yang, a Chinese physicist

Einstein wax figure (right) and actual human (left)

Yang Liwei, the first astronaut sent to space by the Chinese space program

Kate Winslet

Fan Bingbing, a Chinese actress

David and Victoria Beckham. Please somebody tell me she looks like Julia Roberts, because I was totally convinced this was Julia Roberts.

Robert Pattinson

Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer

Julia Roberts

Tom Cruise

There was a good mix of Chinese and international figures, from all different areas: sports, music, movies, world leaders, etc. To be honest, I was scared to go to the wax museum- I thought it was going to be super creepy. And it was a little bit creepy, but it was also full of actual living non-creepy humans who were excited and having fun and taking pictures, so I was able to ignore the creepiness.

The creepiest thing, though, was that the wax figures' feet are all bolted to the floor, so if you push them, they kind of wobble in a really unnatural way.

Overall, though, I thought it was so cool! The wax figures are amazing artwork. It was totally worth going.