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Maybe my curiosity was peaked 🤔
After a visit to Messy Nessy’s Cabinet back in July.
Messy Nessy has exquisite miniature cabinet des curiosities in her shop window, perfect for your dollhouse.
Were encyclopedic personal collections of objects in Renaissance Europe as yet to be defined.
Most classic cabinets of curiosities emerged in the 16th century.
Later to become the first iterations of museum collections to come. The Louvre early days…quelle wreck 🙀
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Are there other Cabinets in Paris full of treasures just 💎 waiting to be discovered?
Of course there are. A big favorite is Melodies Graphiques.
Les Drapeaux de France 🇫🇷 is another you shouldn’t miss if you’re mad for miniatures, at Palais Royale.
I should run 🏃♂️ to the new Surrealism show at the Pompidou, immédiatement!
Conveniently, the museum is open till 11:00 pm on Thursday nights. Everyone else had the same idea 🙄
Once inside the exhibit, we were squeezed into a narrow labyrinthine passageway.
Next a small circular room. I suppose to put us in the right frame of mind 😳😵💫
Then a full movie screen running Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND with Dali-esque/Freudien dream sequences…
At last some open space
And air - a spongy umbrella ☂️
I loved ❤️ the Giacometti table sculpture.
And the lobster 🦞 phone…being fond of seafood.
Plenty of René Magritte for fans.
There are many rooms to explore…I just discovered the plan.
The Surrealism exhibit is on till 4 January, 2025. And then on to Philadelphia 👏
Too many rooms for me. By the end I was beginning to feel like this…I begged 🙏 the guard to show me the exit 😂
A brief flirt with this Magritte pencil case in the gift 🎁 shop…
A Brigitte Macron-like woman exiting ahead of me. So surreal
Wonderful to be back in realité 🤸♂️outside.
Another reason to visit the Pompidou? Great views!
thanks for this post..we went there a few weeks back but the surrealism show was so crowded that we skipped it. shame after waiting an hour in the rain with out timed tickets to get throough security
ReplyDeleteThat’s a shame. I bet they would have let you in.
DeleteI really enjoyed this post Carol being fond of miniatures and surrealism. Good to see somethings never change like the Melodies Graphiques. Bon weekend🗼❤️
ReplyDeleteL😍VE that map!! May I order it as a single? I wish I could think of something cute or funny to say but I’m not that clever. What I will say is that this is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and this year, I am so thankful for my Paris adventure with Dee Ann, Jane and yourself! After having read your blogs for so many years, meeting you in person was “surreal”! ❤️from 🇨🇦Nicole
ReplyDeleteThank you Nicole ❤️
DeleteI will put it on Etsy tomorrow
Today was run to la poste & then to ROUEN for the FETE DE VENTRE! Or eat yourself silly with cider, apples 🍎 and cakes. More to come tomorrow
Hmm…I’m not a fan of Surrealism, or of waiting in lines, so don’t know if that exhibit was for me. But, it’s always a thrill going down that tube escalator at the Pompidou checking out the views in every direction. I AM a great fan of shopping so your Cabinet of Curiosities Map is delightful! ❤️
ReplyDeleteI’m not a Surrealist fan either much, but one must avail oneself of whatever Paris has to offer. You never know 🤷♀️
DeleteThe shops that make Paris so unique! Thank you for the tour!
ReplyDeleteI REALLY Love your “curiosities” rendition.
ReplyDelete( I love ALL your art but this one is particularly charming - you have made me add NESSY’s shop to the next trip’s list of things to do.
Merci, Mike
After seeing this one I KNOW for sure there is ONLY one proper place for Miss Carol Gillott to live to be truly happy from her head to her toes!!! Thanks for sharing your LOVES! CARLA
ReplyDeleteI still vote for you to write a book!!! CARLA
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