Museum Monday

 

 

Came for the AC, stayed for the art.

Above: Raoul Dufy's epic mural

 

 

MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE DE PARIS

 

 Check for current exhibitions

11 Avenue du Président Wilson 75116

 

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“A summer the likes of which I had never seen and never believed possible in our temperate climate: days when the thermometer in the shade rose to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), not a single blade of grass, not a single flower by the 1st of July, the trees turning yellow and losing their leaves, the earth cracking open as if to bury us, the terror of running out of water from one day to the next… - George Sand's description of the heatwave in France in September 1870, in her book Le Journal d’un voyageur pendant la guerre ("The Journal of a Traveler During the War") - the Franco-Prussian War - part of a hot dry summer.  - BPJ

 

Tuesday treat

 

One last look from the top of the Centre Georges-Pompidou (a.k.a. Beaubourg) before it closed.

 Re-opening: 2030 

 

Throwback Thursday

The Grand Palais sparkles through winter trees.

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Exhibition: 

Henri Matisse

1941 - 1954

 

Ends July 26, 2026 

 

 

Window Wednesday

 

The Pyramide du Louvre.

 

Stand-up Saturday

 

 

He might have stepped off an artsy postcard at the Palais de Tokyo gift shop.

 

 

Upcoming exhibitions in March newsletter

 

Palais de Tokyo

13 avenue du Président Wilson 75116 

 

Stand-up Saturday

At his post, ready to pour drinks and oversee nibbles (as Aristide Bruant looks on) at the Musée de Montmartre opening.

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Current exhibition: 

École de Paris: The Marek Roefler Collection

 

 Musée de Montmartre

12 rue Cortot 75018

 

Ends February 15, 2026

 

Teatime Tuesday

 

 

 

Teatime in the Renoir Gardens at the Musée de Montmartre.

 

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Current exhibition:

 

École de Paris: The Marek Roefler Collection

 

 Musée de Montmartre

12 rue Cortot 75018

 

Ends February 15, 2026

 

 

   

Turn here Tuesday

 

 

Tiny sign points the way to the Dalí museum in Montmartre.

 

Salvador Dalí's time in Montmartre included addresses on rue Lamarck and, more famously, rue Becquerel, where he joined Gala, wife of poet Paul Eluard whom he'd met in Cadaqués, Spain, and with whom he left, and that was that.

 

 Espace Dalí

 11 rue Poulbot 75018

 

 

Sit-down Saturday

In the open courtyard of the Louvre Museum.

 

Throwback Thursday

 

Taking in views of the distant Montmartre hill at the Orsay Museum where rooms overflow with works of many of the Impressionists who lived there.

 

Museum Monday

 

A fascinating look at the history of Paris including its origins as Lutèce during the time of the Romans and reaching all the way back to prehistory, as told by the river Seine.

 

 

Archaeological Crypt of the île de la Cité

(Parvis Notre Dame Cathedral/Place Jean-Paul II)

 

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 Exhibition:

The Seine: Recovered Objects from Prehistory to the Current Day

 

 

Spiraling

 

The colimaçon (spiral staircase) inside former home/studio now museum of symbolist Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).

 

 Musée Gustave Moreau

14 rue de La Rochefoucauld 75009

 

 

Window Wednesday

 

Looking out at fresh snow from the Café Renoir.

 

Musée de Montmartre

Renoir Gardens

 

Tearoom Tuesday

 

A tearoom in winter.

 

Musée de Montmartre

Renoir Gardens

 

Artful dodging

 

Le Petit Palais is not only a magnificent art museum but its garden is an unexpected escape in the center of Paris.

Le Petit Palais

 

Avenue Winston Churchill 75008

 

 

Graphic treasure

 

Almost two hundred engravings by the great masters of printmaking including Rembrandt, Dürer, Callot, Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya are being showcased at Le Petit Palais.

Trésors en noir et blanc / Treasures in black and white

 Petit Palais Art Museum

Avenue Winston Churchill 75008

Ends January 14, 2024

 

Dining out

 

 

 

Perfect weather made this picturesque pop-up garden restaurant in the heart of the Marais district a perfect choice.

 

 

- Closed Mondays -

10 a.m. - 2 a.m. daily

RESTAURANT FABULA

 

 Musée Carnavalet

- Museum of the History of Paris -

23 rue de Sévigné 75003

 

Chez Victor

 

A glimpse into Victor Hugo's apartment on Place des Vosges, now a museum, his home with his family from 1832 until 1848 where he penned a large part of "Les Miserables."

 Sculpture by Auguste Rodin

 

 Maison de Victor Hugo

6 Place des Vosges 75004

 

 

 

Fabuleux

 

The Musée Carnavalet is making good use of its enchanting garden.

 

RESTAURANT FABULA

23 rue de Sévigné 75003

 

- Closed Mondays -

10 a.m.- 2 a.m. daily

 

Mona Monday

 

Day after day she calmly gazes over crowds reflected in the bulletproof glass that protects her.

 La Jaconde

Musée du Louvre