NATIONAL RAIL MUSEUM (NRM)

Dec. 5, 2018

National Rail Museum (NRM) signed an MoU with Madame Tussauds Wax Museum to foster tourism in Delhi NCR.

National Rail Museum (NRM):

  • NRM displays exhibits on the history of the Indian railways. NRM comprises of outdoor & indoor exhibition space with collections of more than 75 real size exhibits, Joy Train for children, real life steam engine, Diesel & Steam Locomotive Simulators etc.

  • Established in:

  • Managed by: Indian Railway.

  • Location: Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

Madame Tussauds wax museum:

  • Madame Tussauds wax museum is a leading chain of Wax Museums in the world.

  • In 2017, Madame Tussauds opened its 23rd Wax museum in Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi. This is the first wax museum in India of this renowned brand.

  • The CP museum has 52 wax figures of celebrities like Mahatma Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Shahrukh Khan among others.

Recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU):

  • As a part of the collaboration, a special discount of 35% on ticket prices will be offered to NRM visitors when they visit Madame Tussauds Museum. Similarly, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum visitors will be getting an attractive discount of 30% on combo packages of NRM.

  • It is envisaged that this innovative, first time ever, public-private museum collaboration, shall attract more tourists to both NRM and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.