Quai Branly museum 5th anniversary

The Quai Branly museum features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. It's located near the Eiffel tower along the Seine river and it's one of my favorite museum in Paris. The art presented in the museum is splendid and the building itself designed by Jean Nouvel is a must see.
This past weekend the museum celebrated its 5th year and its success as 7 millions people visited the place since it opened. See the official website : here 

Le musée de la poupée

Honestly I've never been inside the Doll (poupée) museum but I like its outside. As you can see it's a calm paved yard and the most surprising is that it's only 50 meters away from the noisy rue Beaubourg. If you want to have a look at their website : Le musée de la poupée

A window with a view

Today we're still inside the Cité de l'Architecture on the Trocadero. As I was telling you yesterday this museum is ideally located and here is one of the best view that you can get from the top floor of the building.

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine

In addition to the fact that this museum is ideally located on the Trocadero right in front of the Eiffel Tower, it is also a great place to visit where you can see a lot of French architecture. A must see in Paris.

La Nouvelle Athènes : Gustave Moreau museum

To end the Nouvelle Athènes area theme, here is another beautiful mansion that was the home of paintor Gustave Moreau and is now a museum dedicated to his work. It's a small museum and I must admit I'm not found of his art but it like the place and especially the spiral staircase.

Queuing for André Kertész

Yesterday I went to see the André Kertész retrospective exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries garden (this is the beautiful building you see on the picture). I honestly did not know much about this photographer's work and I have been completely under the charm of his pictures especially the Paris and New York ones since these are my two cities I love. If you like photography and happen to be in Paris before February 6th I highly recommend this exhibition. And while waiting you just have to turn around and here is what you can see : ... well the City Daily Picture request only one picture a day so you will have to wait not even for tomorrow since it will be theme day but wait until Wednesday to see what the view from the Jeu de Paume is like ...
Link to the Jeu de Paume : here

Musée Carnavalet

It has been such a long time since my last visit at the Carnavalet Museum that I barely remembered its beautiful and big collection. This museum presents Paris history and is certainly a must see if you like our city. I must admit that it surly needs some renovation especially with the lightnings but it's a free entrance museum so let's be indulgent ! And it's also located in 2 absolutely gorgeous Mansions that worth visit even just for the buildings themselves.

Le Musée des Arts Forains public opening

Like they did last year, the "The museum of Fairground Arts" reopened its door to individual public this Christmas season. Just a magical atmosphere. I would really recomend the visit if your're in Paris until January 2nd. 
For more about it see my last year post : Musée des Arts Forains

Theme day : Time

To celebrate the month theme day which is Time I present the Orsay Museum clock. This museum is a former railway station that is why you can see inscriptions "Paris - Orléans" as the trains from there where going to this city in the center of France.
Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Les Grandes Serres du Jardin Des Plantes

After years of work, the big Greenhouses located in the Jardin des Plantes (one of Paris gardens) near the Natural History Museum have reopened last summer. I did my first visit yesterday and I was delighted by the work done. You can visit 4 greenhouses full of tropical plants and very well explained. The buildings are gorgeous, the oldest greenhouse was built in 1714 and the gig metal structure ones like this one where built at the beginning of the 19th century. A nice place to visit if you're in town .

Musée Bourdelle in and out

Two pictures today as I could not choose whether to show you the outside or the inside of the nice Musée Bourdelle located in Montparnasse quarter in the 15th arrondissement. It's a city owned museum (free entrance !) and honestly I'm no so found of that artists sculptures but the place itself really worths the visit. You can wander in what was Antoine Bourdelle's workplace and in the hidden garden (that you can see through the windows).

Outside the Cernuschi museum

As I told you yesterday, the museum stands in a gorgeous mansion (hotel particulier).

Inside the Cernuschi museum

Last weekend I visited the Cernuschi museum located in an beautiful mansion on a private road leading to the Parc Monceau. This museum is owned by the city of Paris so its permanent collections is free to visit like all municipal museums. This picture is the giant entrance and stair. This tiny museum is specialized in China, Japan and Korean art.It's small but really worth the visit also considering the very nice area of Paris where it is located.

Beaubourg at night

The "Centre Pompidou" also called "Beaubourg" at night where you find the Museum of Contemporary arts.

Through the window

Unfortunately this is not a view from my apartment but  as today is a grey and rainy day in Paris it's museum time. The picture is taken from the Architecture Museum located on the Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower. I hope the weather will get better tonight as we have the yearly "Nuit Blanche" event in Paris. I will post about it tomorrow.

Hotel de Sully : renovation done

This beautiful "Hotel Particulier" (mansion) was built between 1625 and 1630. It is located in the Marais quarter and is certainly one of the most beautiful mansion in Paris. It can be visited and for the past year is has been all covered by renovation works. All works are now over and it looks gorgeous, doesn't it ? I already posted a picture of the inside garden. One nice thing to do if you're in Paris is to enter the building and accross the garden and the courtyard you can go out on the back which leads you right in the Place des Voges.

Musée Guimet's roof

You know I like roofs ! Here is the Guimet museum rooftop. A very very good museum by the way.

Musée des Arts Forains

The museum of Fairground Arts is located in Bercy in the former wine cellars that have been rebuilt in 2000. This place is never openned to individual visitor but only to group and to special events (you can book it for a Company event for example). But this winter is was open to public during the Christmas holidays and I had the chance to visit it last sunday on the last day. The place is magic ! It has outdoors and indoors spaces and provides all sorts of old fairground attractions like the merry go round below which is moved by the people cylcling on the bikes. There were also little shows of acrobats and singers that you can see on a video I put on you tube , it's a poor quality but it may give you an idea of the great atmosphere we found there.

The place has a nice website available in French and English : Les Pavillons de Bercy which you can have a look at if you want to know more about it.

La fée électricité by Raoul Dufy

La fée électricité by Raoul Dufy is a huge painting (624 square meter) that you can see at the Paris Museum of Modern Art in the Palais de Tokyo (free entrance). The paintor made this incredible painting for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937 representing Electricity through the centuries. If you enlarge the picture (click on it) you can see a person behind the sign "Marcel" that gives an idea of the size of the painting. 

It has been a long time since I haven't visited this museum since I am not found of the Palais de Tokyo which is still in a poor condition but I had friends from Orleans at home and it is still worth seen it when you visit Paris. If you come by métro you should stop at Iena station and walk down to the museum. That is where you've got this great view on the Eiffel Tower that Virginia and I both posted.

Inside the Petit Palais

The Petit Palais is a free city Museum located near the champs Elysées with a nice little garden inside.