Joe Biden makes his debut at the Grévin museum

Joe Biden makes his debut at the famous “Wax Pantheon”. The Grévin museum will reopen its doors on May 19 at 10 a.m. with a brand new resident, the President of the United States, the Parisian institution announced on Friday.

Joe Biden’s wax double will be staged for the occasion in Emmanuel Macron’s office reconstituted under the walls of the museum, on the occasion of an “official visit to celebrate the reopening of Grévin and places of culture. », Specified the museum.

A closure of more than six months

After being closed for more than six months, Grévin, one of the capital’s tourist hotspots, will welcome 200 visitors maximum at the same time at the same time at the rate of 8 m2 per person, five times less than the usual tonnage. From June 9, the sanitary gauge will ramp up according to government instructions 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.

Joe Biden realized before the end of Trump’s term

And “as long as the normal gauge will not be authorized, part of the staff will be kept in partial activity”, indicated 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 discarded its wax duplicate on January 19.