Railways signs MoU with Madame Tussauds to foster tourism in Delhi NCR
The Secretary, Railway Board, Ranjanesh Sahai and the Director & General Manager of Madame Tussauds, Anshul Jain exchanging the signed MoU between Ministry of Railways National Rail Museum (NRM) and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, in New Delhi.
Ministry of Railways’ National Rail Museum (NRM) and Madame Tussauds Wax Museum join hands together to provide an amazing combo offer to Delhi NCR tourists. As a part of the collaboration, a special discount of 35 per cent 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 per cent 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. Secretary, Railway Board, Ranjanesh Sahai, Director & General Manager of Madame Tussauds, Anshul Jain, Sr. Officials of Ministry of Railways and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.
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 will not only be convenient to tourists, it will also promote tourism industry. Similar facility is already available in major tourist cities across world.
National Rail Museum (NRM), managed by Indian Railway, is one of the top edutainment 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, has opened its 23rd Wax museum in Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi in 2017. This is the first wax museum in India of this renowned brand and has 52 wax figures of celebrities like Mahatma Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Shahrukh Khan among others.
