It was one of those grey, drizzly Sundays and a perfect chance to take a walk in the gentle rain before retreating to the comfort of home. It was also an ideal day to set out and pay a visit to the only remaining structure of the Capetian’s palace – La Sainte-Chapelle. Its austere, svelte…
Category: Museums
Museum on the history of immigration to France
It is not as easy to remember the name of ‘Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration’ as easily as the Louvre or other well loved museums – but it is nonetheless one worth seeing. There aren’t any historic art pieces or archaelogical finds but it is a treasure trove of documents and images that capture…
Musée Rodin
I have always had a respect for sculptors and their ability to capture human feeling and thought and artfully etch it into stone, bronze: these being themselves as lifeless and expressionless materials as they come. Beyond being an art on the part of the sculptor, to me, it really does speak of a much deeper…
Expo: “Fra Angelico et les Maîtres de la lumiére”
The Musée Jacquemart-André is hosting an interesting expo of artists in the renaissance style of Fra Angelico. It seems to be a celebration of gifted Italian artists who mastered the art of creating exquisite, intricate fresco’s. It is not quite the same as going to Florence to imbibe the spirit behind these paintings and work….
Museums and monuments open in Paris on All Saints Day 2011
Tomorrow is All Saints Day an hopefully there will be enough time to profit from the museums and other things that will be open then. Luckily, I bumped into a list of options of museums and monuments that are going to be open despite it being a public holiday. So I put together a list,…
Chateau de Vincennes
Well, my love for the Middle Ages was further expressed though a visit to the Chåteau de Vincennes, which has consistently played an important part in French history since its construction. Perhaps not so much in the country’s most recent history – but from the times of Saint Louis to I guess the mid 19th…
Musée de Cluny – Positively Medieval
Visited this museum as part of a late Sunday afternoon activity with my beloved – and several things can be said about it: As a place that hosts quite an impressive collection of instructive views into the medieval past, something that vey few museums can offer on the scale of this national museum of the…
Anon's Paris 