Musée Grévin – Renowned waxwork museum in Paris

Paris, ‘The City of Light’, is renowned world over for its magnificent architectures and famous museums. The city is home to hundreds of museums as well as art galleries. This amazing cultural destination has about 180 museums, which are visited by millions of tourists from different parts of the world every year. Book cheap flights to Paris today and arrive in this fabled ‘City of Romance’ to explore its fascinating museums.

One of the famous museums worth visiting in Paris is, of course, the Musée Grévin. It is among Europe’s oldest waxwork museums. Arthur Meyer, a journalist who worked for Le Gaulois, founded the museum in 1882. The Musée Grévin was however named after Alfred Grévin, a caricaturist, who was its first artistic director.

This museum is much different from others. The Musée Grévin is presently home to over 300 characters that are in realistic wax copies. The amazing wax creations at the museum are depicted in nearly 50 scenes from French as well as World history. The creations also include those of prominent international personalities and movie stars such as Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson, Pope John Paul II, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Einstein. The museum will be a great delight for the children to visit. The Hall of Mirrors is ready to excite them with its deforming mirrors. It also holds a sound and light show. The Hall of Mirrors was renovated and now regales the visitors with its new special effects after being reopened in 2006. A discovery tour educates the visitors about how these wax figures are actually made. The museum also has a theater where magic shows are held. It’s absolutely a great fun to visit the Musée Grévin.