Visiting Musée de Cluny in Paris

Sep 19, 2018
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Updated: Nov 6, 2020

During our last full day in Paris, France, we went to two art museums. The first we visited was Musée de Cluny. This is already a fairly small art museum, but it was even smaller when we visited because some of it was closed for reconstruction and editing to the exhibits. There were only 2 exhibits open to us. The first was primarily about metal work from centuries ago and a lot of it was religious. The second was about unicorns! The main attraction is a series of large tapestries depicting the 5 senses. To depict the senses, the use a maiden and her handmaid, a unicorn, lion, and a monkey among other small animals. On some of the tapestries it's easy to figure out which sense they represent though some were more difficult.