Musée Grévin Montreal, Wax museum in downtown Montreal, Canada

Musée Grévin Montreal is a wax museum in downtown Montreal featuring over 120 handcrafted figures. The collection spans multiple themed exhibition areas displaying celebrities, athletes, and historical figures from different eras and fields.

The museum opened its doors in April 2013 and continued the tradition of the original Grévin museum founded in Paris in 1882. This Montreal location brought the world-famous wax figure cabinet concept to Canada.

The Grévin name comes from the Paris museum founded in 1882, and Montreal was the first Grévin opened outside France. An academy chaired by Radio-Canada journalist Marc Laurendeau chose which Quebec figures to add, with two new wax figures installed each year. Hockey scenes and the Bed-in for Peace at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel were among the staged tableaux.

The museum occupied the fifth level of the Montreal Eaton Centre in downtown Ville-Marie, reached from McGill metro station and connected to the underground city. It closed permanently on 16 September 2021 after 50 weeks of pandemic shutdown, so the escalators shown in the photograph no longer lead to any exhibition.

Each wax figure takes several months to create with real hair and precise measurements to achieve exact likenesses. The craftsmanship behind each figure remains hidden to many visitors even though the realistic details are immediately visible.