The museum was founded in 1882 by Arthur Meyer, a journalist for Le Gaulois, 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 and a theater for magic shows. The hall of mirrors was built for the Exposition Universelle in 1900.
It was originally housed in the Palais des mirages designed by Eugène Hénard.
Louis Aragon wrote poems under the name of Le Musée Grévin (using the pseudonym of François la Colère), published during the Vichy regime by the Éditions de Minuit underground editor.
LONDON (AP) — Kylian Mbappé looked very impressed when he met his waxwork version at Madame Tussauds in London... “Oh, wow. I love it, amazing ... "That's me.” ... Mbappé already has a wax statue on display at the Musée Grévin in Paris. ___.
