The nature of every person has something special and unique, a taste for something what another may consider not interesting and useless. Tell me: do many of us take a great interest in numismatics? Probably not! But, nevertheless, there are people for whom ancient coins and medals are, perhaps, the breath of life. And these people, certainly, would visit with great pleasure one of the oldest museums in France – the Cabinet of coins and medals (Cabinet des Medailles et Monnaies) – being in Paris.
Posts Tagged ‘Museums’
Parisian Museum of coins and medals
13 January 2012 1 comment Share/Save
The second birth of the Museum d’Orsay
18 October 2011 No comments Share/Save
The director of Musee d’Orsay Guy Cogeval calls its reconstruction the second birth. He says that now this unique Parisian collection of impressionists and post- impressionists will have absolutely new face.
But when Mr. Cogeval took up its position, nobody had believed in possibility of fairly radical changes of the building of the museum, especially taking into account its historical status. And as a result we can see many changes in Musee d’Orsay, made for its 25th anniversary.
Paris Museum Pass — your admission card to any museum of Paris
12 June 2010 No comments Share/Save
Paris… The Beauty presented by France, is no longer far and inaccessible to inhabitants of our country and all its sights can be seen easily for rather small sum of money.
Non-format exhibitions-museums in Paris
27 March 2010 No comments Share/Save
Undoubtedly, almost everyone heard that Paris is called the city of artists and poets, however this definition is narrow enough, as the city is much more various and multilateral. The capital of France possesses huge “arsenal” of things that can please any (even the most exacting) traveler.
D’Orsay. A way from a train station to a museum
24 March 2010 No comments Share/Save
In the end of the century before last (to be exact in 1898) the company “Paris-Orleans” has made a decision to start building a new train station in Paris. The site had been chosen on the Seine left coast, and the new object has received the name d’Orsay. The architect, to whom the station erection has been entrusted, was Victor Laloux who has approached to this question very seriously, and the construction has been put in operation in 1900 dedicated to World’s fair opening. There were sixteen railway platforms at the new station, but besides it there was a place for hotel with four hundred numbers, restaurants and cafes. In general, d’Orsay was a very modern station; however it has helped it to function for only four decades. Since 1939 for some reasons it has been abandoned.
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