More in Paris – The Louvre, Musee D’Orsay

There is so much to do and so much to see in Paris. The place is just a treasure trove of art, culture and magnificent architecture.

We were wise enough to buy the museum passes before leaving Australia, so we had priority access to the Louvre and Musee d’Orsay.

Having the pass allowed us to walk past the very long queue of people waiting to get into the Louvre, we went straight to the head of the queue.

Now we know how the celebrities feel when they can bypass the queues that stretch for blocks, and walk right to head of the queue and be allowed in straight away to venues.

The Musee du Louve of course is totally awesome with around 35,000 works of art housed within it’s stunning architecture.

The Louvre has been an integral part of central Paris since the 12th century. From its days as a fortress it was transformed in a modernized dwelling for Francois 1 and later the extravagant palace of Louis XIV.

The Louvre was turned into a museum in 1793.

The walls are adorned with absolutely enormous paintings of battle scenes, many of them are  in beautiful gilt frames.

The painted ceilings are just breathtakingly magnificent. As you can see I am going to run out of superlatives for this blog.

This is the marble courtyard which is full of fantastic statues.

Unfortunately my picture of the Mona Lisa didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked. The picture is behind glass and as I am short, getting the picture over the heads of taller people was a bit tricky. Still we were just so happy to be in the Louvre in Paris anything else that happened was a bonus.

Both of us are fascinated by the Egyptian mummies and we went to see the exhibition when it was in Canberra earlier this year. (2007). Memories of our time in the Louvre came flooding back.

 

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