Crèche with wax figures

XIXe-XXe century
Collection : Musée de la civilisation, Quebec City, Canada
Photograph : Musée de la civilisation, Pierre Soulard, 1992

Crèche with nine life-size figures whose heads, hands and feet are made of wax. The bodies are made of pasteboard on wooden frames. Some pieces dating from the XIXth century come from the Musée Grevin in Paris. These figures came from the Musée historique canadien in Montreal which closed in 1989, donating its entire collection of 26 scenes of wax figures, including the Christmas crèche, to the Musée de la civilisation.