When in Paris visiting the Louvre is, of course, a must see - well, you know what I mean.
A couple of years ago we finally managed to visit the museum without the droves of visitors - here's my tip: last week of November.
We were baffled by the sheer size of the museum: the endless rooms, all the famous paintings and all the famous artworks - even caught a glimse of La Gioconda, surrounded by all the other visitors. They were picturing themselves with Mona Lisa in the background. A fine example of the Selfie Culture, will include a picture of it when I have time to blog about it.
Here comes Lens: a mining city in Northern France, not a very affluent region with the mines closed and the textile industry gone.
The Government came with the brilliant plan of opening a dependance of the Louvre museum here.
Now there's a truly magnificent state of the art museum, surrounded by a very beautiful, modern garden, following the lines of the disused coal mine the museum is built upon.
Inside the museum a wide, bright hall with a very interesting selection of artworks - 'La Galerie du Temps' starting around 5000 BC and ending in (almost) modern times France.
It took us by surprise that some centuries old statues looked definitely Art Deco while some statues we thought very much Roman were 2000 years older.
You suddenly get an idea of the continuing story (art)history is. Must show you a couple of our finds!
A couple of years ago we finally managed to visit the museum without the droves of visitors - here's my tip: last week of November.
We were baffled by the sheer size of the museum: the endless rooms, all the famous paintings and all the famous artworks - even caught a glimse of La Gioconda, surrounded by all the other visitors. They were picturing themselves with Mona Lisa in the background. A fine example of the Selfie Culture, will include a picture of it when I have time to blog about it.
Here comes Lens: a mining city in Northern France, not a very affluent region with the mines closed and the textile industry gone.
The Government came with the brilliant plan of opening a dependance of the Louvre museum here.
Now there's a truly magnificent state of the art museum, surrounded by a very beautiful, modern garden, following the lines of the disused coal mine the museum is built upon.
Inside the museum a wide, bright hall with a very interesting selection of artworks - 'La Galerie du Temps' starting around 5000 BC and ending in (almost) modern times France.
It took us by surprise that some centuries old statues looked definitely Art Deco while some statues we thought very much Roman were 2000 years older.
You suddenly get an idea of the continuing story (art)history is. Must show you a couple of our finds!
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