I’m a bit of an art geek, so I bought a 6 Day Musee Pass for €69 and then embarked on an extended gallery crawl. I saw:
Musée national des Arts asiatiques – Guimet
Musée Rodin
Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arab
Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne
Musée du quai Branly
Musée du Louvre
Musée d’Orsay
Musée national de l’Orangerie
(I made multiple visits to the last three)
The Musée national Picasso was closed for renovations, and there were a couple of others that I wanted to visit but just didn’t get to.
I don’t know how to convey the sense of visiting them – there were a slew of them, with so many works inside them, and it was concentrated within a short span of time, so I won’t attempt any kind of accurate representation. Instead I’ll just post a few images and reflections. One side effect of gallery crawling was spending most of the day without natural light at all– the metro lines I were on were largely underground, and many of the galleries had few windows and preservation focused light levels.
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