Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP
Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP
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Move over, Madame Tussauds: when a wax museum ‘like no other’ opened in Hong Kong

Hong Kong got its own wax museum when Madame Vivian opened one in Tsim Sha Tsui in the 1970s. ‘Our figures will have movement, and to touch them will be like touching real flesh’, she claimed

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Mercedes Hutton
Mercedes Hutton

Updated: 3:00pm, 26 Aug, 2019

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Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP
Vivian Sun puts the finishing touches to one of her lifelike wax sculptures, in 1970. Photo: SCMP
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