Tourist Information
In the 19th century, the journalist Arthur Meyer was looking for a way to enable his readers to see the faces of the personalities of whom he spoke in his articles. That is how the House of Wax idea was born. Arthur Meyer turned to the artist and sculptor Alfred Grévin, who took up the great project with passion and ended up giving it his name. The Grévin Waxworks Museum was inaugurated on 5 June 1882 and was an immediate success. Even today, it continues to draw crowds who come here to see their idols among the 300 wax statues that live in the Grévin Museum. In that theatre of people, the heads of state of the past brush shoulders with today's cinema stars. The place has a magic of its own, and will make you relive the great times of the History of France and the major events of the 20th century, in larger-than-life reconstructions. After meeting the great and the good, you could discover the secrets of the creation of these remarkable waxworks with a thrilling tour of the workshops where they are made. But the Grévin Museum is not only a waxworks museum. Discover also the Palace of Mirages. This splendid son et lumière show was developed by Eugène Hénard for the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. The show is a gigantic kaleidoscope that will take you from the heart of the jungle to the Palace of the Arabian Nights. For a magical experience, come to 10 Boulevard Montmartre, metro Grands Boulevards. http://www.grevin.com/
