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  2. Madame Tussauds Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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    Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, is part of the renowned chain of wax museums founded by Marie Tussaud of France, is located at the Peak Tower on Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is the first Madame Tussauds museums in Asia, the other being the Shanghai branch, which opened in 2006 and the third branch at Bangkok which ...

  3. Wax museum - Wikipedia

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    A modern wax sculpture of Cecilia Cheung at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. Satyajit Ray at Mother's Wax Museum, Kolkata.. A wax museum or waxworks usually consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses, wearing real clothes.

  4. Wax sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Anna of Tyrol by Alessandro Abondio, 1618 The funeral effigy (without clothes) of Elizabeth of York, mother of King Henry VIII, 1503, Westminster Abbey The Beatles at Madame Tussauds London Cecilia Cheung at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong. A wax sculpture is a depiction made using a waxy substance.

  5. List of wax figures displayed at Madame Tussauds museums

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    ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 8 December 2021. ^ "Madame Tussauds Wax Museum USA on Instagram: "Madame Tussauds New York is in the process of making a brand new wax figure, and it just might be the most fabulous one yet. 👀 Coming in 2023, the category is: Billy Porter! 🎉 #billyporter #madametussauds #waxfigure" ".

  6. Madame Tussauds - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .madametussauds .com. Madame Tussauds ( UK: / tuːˈsɔːdz /, US: / tuːˈsoʊz /) [1] [N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. [2] [3] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843. [4]

  7. Marie Tussaud - Wikipedia

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    3 (but one died at birth) Anna Maria " Marie " Tussaud ( French pronunciation: [maʁi tyso]; née Grosholtz; 1 December 1761 – 16 April 1850), commonly known as Madame Tussaud, was a French artist known for her wax sculptures and Madame Tussauds, the wax museum she founded in London.

  8. Hong Kong Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture in grounds of HK Museum of Art. The Hong Kong Museum of Art ( HKMoA) is the first and main art museum of Hong Kong, located in Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. It is a public museum managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government. HKMoA has an art collection of over 17,000 items.

  9. Kowloon Walled City Park - Wikipedia

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    The Kowloon Walled City Park is a park in Kowloon City, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Kowloon Walled City had been a military stronghold since the 15th century due to its coastal location and was a slum. Under an agreement between the Government of Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, the Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the 1990s.