Wax museum shuts down
The Musée Grévin, which displayed effigies of famous people for eight years here, has closed its doors. When it opened I remember thinking that a wax museum was too 19th-century for the 2000s. We’ve had them here over the years – the Eden Musée on the lower Main, long gone, and the Art Deco building on Queen Mary at Côte‑des‑Neiges, which closed in 1989 and is now a pharmacy – but I didn’t think we needed a new one, and as it turns out, we didn’t.
Thomas 13:28 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
Yeah, I thought it was weird when it opened too, but I take a ‘when in Rome’ attitude to most things in Montreal as I’m not from here. And I actually forgot the place existed until I saw your post; the Grévin in Paris is the equivalent of Madame Tussaud’s in London, but I don’t think it necessarily had the same name recognition here.
EmilyG 16:50 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
I went to the wax museum soon after it opened. It was amusing, but I didn’t see much point to it beyond that.
Ephraim 20:48 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
Is a Yankee Candle opening in the space?
Max 21:18 on 2021-09-16 Permalink
Good riddance, Grevin. Any business that willfully chose to use the face of Jimmy Kimmel as a supposed attraction in their advertisements, deserves to have died a long time ago.
MarcG 09:31 on 2021-09-17 Permalink
Their ads in the Montreal Mirror always struck me as way out of touch and my brain, in order to fit them into reality, assumed they were intentionally ironic.
Kate 10:22 on 2021-09-17 Permalink
MarcG, I don’t think they can have advertised in the Mirror. That paper shut down in 2012, while the Grévin here opened in 2013.
Thomas 10:26 on 2021-09-17 Permalink
I am going to admit at this point that I just got Ephraim’s joke. Well played lol
Uatu 10:27 on 2021-09-17 Permalink
Wouldn’t be surprised if they convert the entire space into moar condos
MarcG 14:16 on 2021-09-17 Permalink
Kate, it must have been in CultMTL then, I get them mixed up.