It begins in the south between 10 and 12 boulevard Montmartre, and ends in the north at 9 rue de la Grange-Batelière.

[2] The floor is paved with a geometric pattern composed of white, gray and black squares.

The Passage Jouffroy represents an important stage in the technological evolution of the 19th century and the mastery of iron structures.

In the early 1880s, Arthur Meyer, founder of the newspaper Le Gaulois, joined the cartoonist Alfred Grévin to create a gallery of wax figures on a property adjacent to the passage.

The exit of the museum, decorated with a montage of various characters, is in the passage and contributes in large part to its success.

[citation needed] The museum includes a hall of mirrors that was originally housed in the Palais des mirages designed by Eugène Hénard for the Exposition Universelle (1900).