Events - Musée Grévin: The magic of Christmas takes flight in the heart of Paris

By Mulder, Paris, Musée Grévin, 23 december 2025

As Christmas approaches, the Musée Grévin is once again transformed into a magical wonderland. This 2025 Christmas edition has something particularly endearing, almost intimate, in the way it combines heritage, popular emotion, and a contemporary view of celebrity. From December 20 to January 4, the famous Parisian museum located on the Grands Boulevards opens its doors to an immersive experience designed for families as well as culture and history enthusiasts, with the highly anticipated return of Santa Claus, but above all with a lively tour, animated by actors, which gives the visit a theatrical feel, reminding us that Grévin has never been a simple alignment of statues, but rather a place of storytelling and staging.

This Christmas program is part of a particularly rich year for the museum in 2025, marked by the arrival of numerous personalities from the world of music and popular culture, such as DJ Snake, Vianney, Clara Luciani, and Aya Nakamura, as well as the notable arrival of ballet dancer Guillaume Diop, a powerful symbol of an institution that is increasingly opening up to new generations and artistic diversity. Even more significantly, this year the Grévin Museum has chosen to honor two major female figures in world history, Marie Curie and Lady Diana, two radically different trajectories but united by the same aura, that of women who profoundly marked their era, one through science and the other through humanism and media engagement. By including them in its exhibition, the museum subtly reminds us that fame can also be synonymous with lasting impact and transmission.

It should be remembered that the Musée Grévin is not a museum like any other. Founded in 1882 by journalist Arthur Meyer and named after its first artistic director, caricaturist Alfred Grévin, it is part of a European tradition of wax museums inspired by the London model of Madame Tussauds, while developing a deeply French identity from the outset. Its baroque architecture, and in particular its legendary Palais des Mirages, built for the 1900 World's Fair by Eugène Hénard, remains one of the highlights of any visit. The artistic renovation carried out in 2018 by Krysle Lip has given this hall of mirrors a striking modernity without betraying its heritage, and it is precisely in this dialogue between past and present that the magic of Christmas finds its ideal expression here.

Today, the museum houses around 250 figures divided into historical and contemporary scenes, retracing a vast panorama from Charlemagne to Napoleon III, without shying away from the dark hours of the French Revolution, some scenes of which still feature original wax figures from the late 19th century. This almost carnal relationship with history, which can sometimes be disturbing, contrasts with more recent figures from the worlds of cinema, sport, and international music, created using ultra-modern modeling techniques. From Albert Einstein to Michael Jackson, Josephine Baker to Pope John Paul II, the Grévin Museum has established itself as a mirror of global celebrity.

The Christmas 2025 program seems almost like a benevolent interlude, refocused on the pleasure of visiting and intergenerational sharing. The presence of actors throughout the tour, themed activities, surprises scattered among the 250 characters accessible to the public, and of course the chance to meet Santa Claus, create a warm atmosphere that echoes the original DNA of the place: to amaze, to tell stories, and to bring people together. For those who have been following the evolution of the Grévin Museum for years, this festive period is also an opportunity to appreciate how the museum has stood the test of time, adapted to the expectations of the public, and remained a vibrant cultural player, capable of combining tradition, modernity, and emotion. It's the ideal visit to end the year on a high note or start it off with a touch of magic.

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