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Carnavalet Museum Paris and the Petit Palais

level of culture, Paris is certainly one of the capitals with a rate of international museums and monuments considerable. You obviously can not visit them all if you stay a few days in the capital so come visit museums free 3 of the City of Paris. Today we get to the Musee Carnavalet in the Marais, the Petit Palais near the Champs Elysees and the Museum of Romantic Life the heart of 9 th district.

Carnavalet Museum

Housed in two mansions (the Hôtel Carnavalet and the hotel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau) in the heart of the Marais near Place des Vosges, the museum holds more than 100 rooms that contain collections that illustrate the evolution of Paris from prehistoric times to today. Paintings, sculptures, furniture missing from buildings and also models. The museum also maintains a collection of graphic art - drawings, prints, photographs and posters - and a remarkable numismatic firm. The museum is located on rue de Sevigne in the 3 rd district, access is via the Metro stations Saint Paul or Chemin Vert (line 5)

Le Petit Palais

The museum was entirely renovated and welcomes you now in a setting that combines modern mind and 1900, a charming courtyard garden with its ponds decorated with mosaics and columns complete this beautiful setting, conducive to the discovery of thematic collections. Among the topics covered are 1900 Paris, 19 th century, 18 th and 17 th century, the Renaissance and the Western Christian world and East, but also ancient Greek and Roman. Access is free for permanent collections every day except Monday from 10 to 18 and the nearest metro station is Champs-Elysees-Clemenceau (line 1 or 13). Take this opportunity to browse through the inevitable up the Champs Elysees Arc de Triomphe and back down to the Place de la Concorde and give yourself a well deserved rest at the heart of the Jardin des Tuileries.

Museum of Romantic Life

This museum atmosphere has kept the charm of a mansion district New Athens. formerly owned by the painter Ary Scheffer and his nephew Ernest Renan, it is also dedicated, since 1987, the evocation of a great romantic figure of George Sand. Across the courtyard is the workshop where Ary Scheffer worked from 1830 to 1858 and received Chopin, Liszt, Lamartine, Turgenev, Delacroix ... A harmonious historical setting has been restored to evoke the era Romantic: the ground floor are exposed memories of the woman writer George Sand, with portraits, furniture and jewelry of the eighteenth and XIX. As to the first floor, the paintings of the painter Ary Scheffer are exposed, surrounded by works of his contemporaries. The charm evocative museum also wishes to reconstruct the studio lounge, the library enriched by four generations of talented painters are Scheffer Renan, and Psichari Siohan. You are strongly encouraged to walk the neighborhood streets, the Rue des Martyrs and restaurants and charming boutiques sloping back to Pigalle not leave you indifferent. I would push even recommend renting a Paris apartment in this area you can visit Montmartre on one side and the Great Boulevards, the Opera and the Gare Saint Lazarus other. It is without doubt the best location to start your discovery of the capital.

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