NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 04, 2018: The Ministry of Railways' National Rail Museum (NRM) and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum today inked an agreement to entice tourists. As a part of the collaboration, a special discount of 35% on ticket prices would be offered to NRM visitors when they visit Madame Tussauds Museum. Similarly, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum visitors would 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 National Rail Museum and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.

In this regard, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Ministry of Railways and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. The Secretary, Railway Board, Mr Ranjanesh Sahai, Director & General Manager of Madame Tussauds, Mr Anshul Jain, Sr. Officials of Ministry of Railways and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion. In addition, there would be a special provision for school groups. School children would be able to enjoy both museums at a 45% discount. This would help in promoting railway heritage and also enable children to learn about national heroes, thereby making the student excursion more inclusive, holistic and interesting.

Delhi has many popular museums but most of them require individual ticketing. The broader vision of this collaboration is to spread the concept of a discounted single ticket for accessing more museums, even spanning over 3-4 days. This would not only be convenient to tourists, it would also promote tourism industry. Similar facility is already available in major tourist cities across world.

The National Rail Museum (NRM), managed by Indian Railway, is one of the top 'edu-tainment' tourist destinations of Delhi NCR area having annual footfall of more than 5 lakhs. NRM offers railway history, heritage, nostalgia, games & children activity all bundled together at one place. Spread over 11 acres of land at Chanakyapuri, NRM comprises of outdoor & indoor exhibition space with exotic collections of more than 75 real size exhibits, Joy Train for children, real life steam engine, more than hundred artifacts and digital displays, Diesel & Steam Locomotive Simulators, VR based coach simulator etc.      

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. Within a year, the wax museum has become one of the most sought after destination in Delhi.