Grevin Wax Museum

Grevin, the Madame Tussauds of Paris

Grevin Wax Museum was founded in 1882 on the model of Madame Tussauds in London. The museum brings back in front of you great people and events of history in realistic wax copies.

In Grevin Museum, you find political leaders such asCharles de Gaulle of France and Barak Obama of the USA, actors as Marylin Monroe and Charlie Chaplin.

Many other well known people from the past and today will welcome you as if they were real, sometimes even confusing you.

Located on the animated Paris right bank boulevards, the Grevin Museum also features spectacular wax scenes from French history.

You will specially admire the realistic scenes from the dramatic 1789 French revolution.

The Grevin Wax Museum features a mirage room and a magic trick theater. Children will like the museum and be excited by its deforming mirrors.

Musee Grevin

10 boulevard Montmartre
75009 Paris
tel: 33 (0)1 47 70 85 05
Paris metro: Grands Boulevards station on lines 8, 9

Grevin Wax Museum information

Musee Grevin web site. Ticket price: 23.50 euros.Children (6 to 14): 16.50 euros. Buy tickeys online.
Locate Grevin Wax Museum on Paris map.

Monday to Friday: 10am to 6.30 pm (admission until 5.30 pm). Saturday, Sunday, French school holidays: 10 am to 7 pm (admission until 6 pm).

Free Grevin Museum ticket with Paris Pass

A free Grevin Museum ticket, worth 22.50 euros, is included in the 2 day 110 euros Paris Pass. The Paris Pass is both economical and practical: free entrance to 55 top Paris museums and monuments, free Seine River Cruise, free french wine tasting, free travel on Paris metro and buses, free hop-on-hop-off tourist bus tour of Paris, exclusive Paris shopping offers.

source :www.parisdigest.com