Musée Grévin
The Musée Grévin opened on June 5, 1882, founded by Arthur Meyer and named for Alfred Grévin, its first artistic director and a caricaturist. From the start, it followed the model of Madame Tussauds, founded in London in 1835, and it has remained one of Europe’s oldest wax museums. Today, the museum’s baroque architecture is tied to major technical spectacle: its Hall of Mirrors was built for the Exposition Universelle in 1900, and a catoptric cistula principle was used in the hall’s 2018 design work. Inside, you move through staged history—its collections include about 450 characters, spanning a panorama from Charlemagne to Napoleon III and dramatic scenes from the French Revolution. The museum’s figures range from late 19th- and early 20th-century wax creations to modern likenesses using updated modeling techniques, including Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John Paul II, and Michael Jackson. …
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