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lesser known Paris museum ?
Have been on the website for the museum pass and finding museums that are new to us..(we are in Paris for the month)...any comments?
marine museum, air and space, cinema...would love to hear more about these or others that aren's so popular... thnaks.. |
Musee de la vie Romantique.
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marine museum one in Conflans-st-Honore in suburbs.
air and space at Le Bourget airport Cinema Francaise is film musum and theatre. |
Author: PalenQ Date: 05/07/2007, 11:43 am LE BOURGET AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM For a special interest museum just a short hop by train from Gare du Nord, hop to Le Bourget Airport, where Lindbergh landed i believe and which once was Paris' major airport - now mainly for freight i believe. But at the airport is the ambitious Air and Space Museum, with an impressive collection of aircraft, from 18th-century Montgolfiers (sp?) or hot-air balloons to modern aircraft as well as rockets, spacecraft and satellites - including the chance to board the original prototype of the Concorde. New at the museum is the chance to explore the World of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, known most for writing the book The Little Prince but also a wartime pilot and pioneer in civil and postal aviation - multi-media presentation and interactive installations. |
At husband's insistence we went to the PAris sewer museum. It was actually pretty memorable - and a lot more interesting than I would have thought.
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Musée Bourdelle.
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Author: PalenQ
Date: 04/23/2007, 01:06 pm CINEMATHEQUE FRANCAISE This 'cinema museum' screens international film classics in their original language. If not a movie buff the boffo buidling, designed by Frank Gehry, will surely delight. 51 rue de Bercy; 12th; ph 01.71.19.33.33; www.cinematheque.fr |
Another lesser known but quirky and interesting for some museum:
Author: PalenQ Date: 02/27/2007 I recently revisited one of my favorite Paris museums, the Museum National des Arts et Metiers. I had been to the museum a few times before but not recently and it remains a delightful collection that is testimony to the great French role in scientic and engineering history. Plus the museum is in the walls of an ancient monastery, where it was started by the abbot in 1794. The building's old wooden floors lovingly creak as one walks around the antique-reeking environs that host a treasure-trove of old machines and scientific tools...some 80,000 objects and 15,000 designs (according to its web site: www.arts-et-metiers.net) The museum's piece-de-resistance is no doubt Focault's original pendulum, which perpetually swings around in the center of the old church of the monastery. When Focault swung his pendulum in public at the Panteon centuries ago, proving the previously heretical idea that the Earth rotated around the sun and not other way around, it of course created a huge stir in the scientific and religious communities. Huge crowds flocked to the Pantheon to see the pendulum prove this. Anyway a neat old museum that could delight even the most science- or engineering-blase types and one i hope to return to again and again. Nearby, attached to the roof, are two old French airplanes that were seminal in aviation development. The runner-up to Focault's Pendulum as a museum highlight is Lavosier's old laboratory, kept in its original state that the so-called (by the museum) father of modern chemisty had it when he worked in it. |
The Shoah Museum in the Marais.
The Musee Nissem Camando on Parc Monceau. Musee des Arts Asiastiques Guimet. Musee de Montmartre. All are worthwhile |
The Paris tourist office calls the Guimet museum the world's finest museum of Asian art - don't know bout that but that's what they say.
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Musee Nissim de Camondo. I actually preferred it to the better-known Musee Jacquemart Andre. They are the fully furnished, art-filled homes of wealthy Parisian families. The Jacquemart Andre has a great gift shop and cafe.
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Hello loisco,
We LOVE the Paleontological Gallery adjacent to the Jardin des Plantes. We have been to many natural history museums, but this one is BY FAR the best we have ever seen. Quoting the Michelin Green Guide, "<i>The gallery of comparative anatomy comprises 36,000 specimens. Fossils are displayed on the first and second floors with large prehistoric animals and casts of extinct species in the centre.</i>" This place is packed full of skeletons of every type animal, really unbelievable. Along the walls are displays with organs, hearts, brains, etc. But it's the displays that are outstanding. The second you step in the room, you're wowed away by it all. Really truly amazing. Happy travels! |
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The ONE museum I want to go to, and have not (next trip) is the MUSEE DE L'EROTISME on Blvd. du Clichy, near Pigalle. When I was in Paris this past September, a Parisian artist friend of mine and I went to an art exhibition of one of her friends in the Marais, and he told me that the museum is very well done, very tasteful-it is owned by a French antiques dealer.
www.musee-erotisme.com/ |
My dad (an engineer), my husband (also a techno-guy) and I also loved the Musee des Arts et Metiers.
Some other suggestions: Musee Marmottan (16th arr., near the Bois de Boulogne, Metro stop La Muette) has the world's most extensive collection of Monet's paintings. It's in an attractive mansion with nice park views. There is also a lovely a collection of illuminated manuscripts. Go to http://www.marmottan.com/uk/ If you're interested in Art Deco, the Musée des Années 30 in the nearby suburb of Boulogne Billancourt (adjacent to the 16th arr. and on Metro Line 9, I think) is worth a visit (and could be combined with a visit to the Musée Marmottan). Go to http://www.annees30.com/. There are also Art Deco walking tours in the neighbourhood. |
We especially enjoyed the Musee Gustav Moreau, 14 rue de la Rochefoucauld, as much for the building as the art.
If you are visiting the de Camondo , the Cernuschi is right around the corner. If by the marine museum you mean the Musee de la Marine in the Palais de Chaillot, that's another we like to revisit. They also have some unusual gifts in their shop. I love the wine stoppers I bought there. The Petit Palais had just reopened when we were there last fall and it is over the top...collection and building. It is going back on my list for another visit this fall. I went reluctantly, with my DH, to the also newly re-opened Musee de la Legion d Honneur, across from the D'Orsay and I have to say I did enjoy it greatly. |
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