Tag: museums and exhibitions

WWI Reenactors as Americans camped in front of the museus in Meaux (c) Gary Lee Kraut

Meaux’s Museum of the Great War, WWI Reenactors and Brie (Video)

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An article and video about the Museum of the Great War of Meaux and the pleasures of meeting reenactors there during WWI reenactment weekend in September, along with a tasty side-serving of brie cheese.
Paris Walking Tour Champs-Elysees from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, GLKraut Voicemap

VoiceMap Tour: The Champs-Elysées, from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe

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Join Gary Lee Kraut on an essential Paris walking tour: a stroll along the full length of the world-famous avenue of the Champs-Elysées, from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe.
La Cour d'Or Museum, Metz (c) GLK

Couples Therapy in the Cour d’Or Museum in Metz

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I wouldn’t have thought that a museum could be so romantic. In Metz of all places. I didn’t expect to encounter so many couples in city’s Cour d’Or Museum.
Les Franciscaines Deauville, cloister (c) Berengere Sence

Les Franciscaines: Deauville Gets Culture

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Deauville, Normandy's premier luxury seaside resort, can now present itself as a cultural destination thanks to Les Franciscaines, a new culture and media complex within a thoroughly renovated 19th-century convent.
Hotel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde, Paris (c) GLK

Hôtel de la Marine: Glimpses of Decorative Splendor and Onto Paris’s Largest Square

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Six years after France’s Naval Ministry vacated its monumental headquarters in Paris facing Place de la Concorde, the public now has access to the 18th-century Hôtel de la Marine whose new museum presents a dozen painstakingly restored historic rooms and an impressive view out to the square. The building also houses a chic café, an upscale restaurant and a private art collection.
Passion Monuments pass CMN

The Must-Have Pass for Those with a Passion for Historical Monuments

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The 45€ Passion Monuments pass gives unlimited access for one year to 80 monuments in France--a must-have for monument-minded residents (and travelers on an extended stay?) that will likely pay for itself many times over.
Tuileries Garden, Paris

VoiceMap Tour: The Tuileries Garden, from the Louvre to Place de la Concorde

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Talk a walk through the Tuileries, Paris's most historic garden, with Gary Lee Kraut. A royal walk, an imperial walk, a people's walk. But beware: drama lurks within its geometry.
Baby Liberty, Statue of Liberty, Paris

Baby Liberty Goes Abroad (Video)

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Baby Liberty, the 9.3-foot, 1/16-size little sister of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, left her childhood home in the courtyard in front of France's National Museum of Technology, the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, on June 7 to embark on a journey to the United States.
The Mona Lisa of the Champs-Elysees - Le Chat GLK

The Mona Lisa of the Champs-Elysées (How Le Cat Killed Curiosity)

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Paris seeks herd immunity against curiosity by installing 20 monumentally insipid bronzes of Philippe Geluck's Le Chat on the Champs-Elysees.

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