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Musée de l’Orangerie & Jardin des Tuileries
The Jardin des Tuileries is a garden located between the Louvre Museum & the Place de la Concorde. It was created by Catherine de Medicis as the garden of the Tuileries Palace. In the 19th and 20th century, it was the place where Parisians celebrated, met, promenaded & relaxed Our first contact with the Musée du Louvre was actually kinda funny: we were walking in our first day in Paris looking for some place to have a picnic, saw that huge palace & had no idea what it was. We ...
Palais de Tokyo
The Palais de Tokyo was the most impressive contemporary art museum I’ve ever seen; in fact, it rejects the label “museum” & prefers to call itself a site “devoted to contemporary creativity”. The building is huge: more than 22.000m² of creative energy featured in all forms imaginable: from paintings & sculpture to projections & installations. After days & days visiting museums with “classic” art, visiting the Palais the Tokyo & the Centre Pompidou was a delicious {& ...