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Madame Tussauds Vietnam to open in HCM City

Xinhua, March 31, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Vietnamese Celebrities' Wax Statues Museum, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will be open to visitors on April 10, its owner said on Friday.

The museum at Hoa Binh Theater in Ho Chi Minh City's District 10 has 150 life-size wax statues of well-known dead and living Vietnamese artists mainly in theater, film, music and fashion industries, including Van Cao, Tran Van Khe, Ut Bach Lan, The Anh, Hong Van, Thanh Loc, Hoai Linh and Hai Phuong.

The statues were made by three local artisans, also founders of the Vietnamese Wax Statue Company, with investment of over 35 billion Vietnamese dong (nearly 1.6 million U.S. dollars). The artisans said they had searched for materials and wax statue-making techniques from many foreign countries for 16 years.

The museum's entrance fee is 100,000 Vietnamese dong (4.5 U.S. dollars), and part of revenues from ticket sales will be used to help poor artists in Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces, said Thai Ngoc Binh, one of the three artisans. Endit