Thursday 17 November 2011

5 Art Museums in France that are Better Than the Louvre

WhereIveBeen.com reports on 5 Art Museums in France that are Better Than the Louvre.

The five are:

1. Villa de Rothschild
2. Matisse Chapel
3. Picasso Museum
4. Giverny
5. Musee D’Orsay

It describes Villa de Rothschild .... Part museum, part life-sized doll’s house, this is every girl’s childhood dream realized. Around 1905, Beatrice de Rothschild, member of a wealthy family and wife to a wealthy husband, decided that she wanted a place to house her art collection, porcelain, costumes, and dolls. She decorated the mansion in pink, lace, and vibrant fabrics, and the house boasts a costume room, a tearoom, her bedroom, and nine gardens wrapping around a giant courtyard, each garden representing a different part of the world. The entire structure is designed to look like the bow of a ship so that she could have the illusion that she was traveling forever.

To read about the 4 other Art Museums

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