Musée Grévin

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Musée Grévin
File:Logo Musée Grévin Paris.jpg
File:Grevin musee facade.jpg
Facade of the Musée Grévin
Established 1882
Location Rue de Lille 75343 Paris, France
Type Wax museum
Website www.grevin.com/

The Musée Grévin (French: [myze ɡʁevɛ̃]; EuronextGREV) is a wax museum in Paris located on the Grands Boulevards in the 9th arrondissement on the right bank of the Seine, at 10, Boulevard Montmartre, Paris, France. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The musée Grévin also has locations in Montreal and Seoul.

History

The museum was founded in 1882 by Arthur Meyer, a journalist for Le Gaulois, on the model of Madame Tussauds founded in London in 1835 [1] and named for its first artistic director, caricaturist Alfred Grévin. It is one of the oldest wax museums in Europe. Its baroque architecture includes a hall of mirrors based on the principle of a catoptric cistula[2] in 2018, a young American author, composer, interpreter and designer, Krysle Lip was in charge of the artistic and esthetical transformation of the Hall of Mirrors [3] The hall of mirrors was built for the Exposition Universelle in 1900.[4] It was originally housed in the Palais des mirages designed by Eugène Hénard.[5]

Attractions

The Musée Grévin now contains some 450 characters arranged in scenes from the history of France and modern life, including a panorama of French history from Charlemagne to Napoleon III and bloody scenes of the French Revolution, with the original wax figures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries witnessing their technical evolution. By contrast, the more contemporaneous movie stars, athletes, and international figures such as Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Shah Rukh Khan, Pablo Picasso, Michael Jackson, Josephine Baker and Pope John Paul II use the modern techniques of modeling. The tableau of Charlotte Corday murdering Jean-Paul Marat created in 1889 includes the actual knife and bathtub used.

New wax characters are regularly added to the Museum among more than 2000 made since it opened. They include Zinedine Zidane, Jean Reno, Monica Bellucci, Jean Dujardin, Isabelle Adjani[4] and Nolwenn Leroy.[6]

Bollywood celebrities whose wax has been added include Shah Rukh Khan,[7] Aishwarya Rai[8] and Ranveer Singh.[9]

Grévin Montréal (2013)

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Grévin Seoul (2015)

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See also

Notes

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  6. "Nolwenn Leroy" (in French). Musée Grévin. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
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  10. (fr) Musée des moulages dermatologiques de l'hôpital Saint-Louis, site bium.univ-paris5.fr.
  11. (fr) Musée des moulages dermatologiques de l'hôpital Saint-Louis, site hôpital-Saint-Louis.aphp.fr.

External links

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