Famous "
Pantheon of wax
", the Grévin museum will reopen its doors on May 19 at 10 am with a brand new resident, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, the Parisian institution announced to AFP on Friday.
The wax double of the President of the Republic will be staged for the occasion in the office of Emmanuel Macron reconstituted under the picture rails of the museum, on the occasion of an "
official visit to celebrate the reopening of Grévin and places of culture,
”said the museum.
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After being closed for more than six months, Grévin, one of the capital's tourist hot spots, will welcome 200 visitors maximum at the same time at the same time at a rate of 8 m² per person, five times less than the usual level. From June 9, the sanitary gauge will ramp up according to government guidelines with 400 visitors at the same time. Visitors will be able to continue to approach the wax statues directly, but interactive disguises will not be available at first. And "
as long as the normal gauge will not be authorized, part of the staff will be kept in partial activity
", told AFP Yves Delhommeau, the general manager of Grévin, a museum created in 1882.
Joe Biden's wax double was made on photos and videos by sculptor Claus Velte. Without waiting for the official end of Donald Trump's mandate, the museum had discarded its double wax on January 19, sarcastically: "
Perhaps we will have the opportunity to use it as a monster to celebrate Halloween!"
"