Discovery tour

The Grévin's discovery tour reveals the well-kept secrets of making wax celebrities! After meeting Lorie, Mimie Mathy, Louis XIV or Jean de La Fontaine, all our inquisiti

ve little friends can have fun finding out how all those wax works are made.
   

For once, children are allowed to touch and to identify materials: wax, resins, eyes, hair, and to recognise the aroma of hot wax or oil paints. Did you know that the figures’ hair is natural and that each hair is implanted onto the head separately, and that more than 500 000 are needed for a head; that David Douillet’s foot is 30 cms long and 13 cms wide; that there are dozens of eye models, etc…

This new circuit is included in the unguided tour of the Grévin, available to children for visits with their family, and to school parties (primary and secondary school). Don’t tell!!! Grown-ups also get a lot of fun out of finding out all the Grévin’s trade secrets…