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Category: Museums

JOIN US ON A VISIT TO 30 AVENUE MONTAIGNE WHERE THE DIOR LEGEND WAS BORN 75 YEARS AGO. WE’LL VISIT THE MUSEE D’ORSAY AS WELL.

Our daughter was in Paris the week before us visiting her son. She told us we had to get tickets to see “La Galerie Dior” at the Dior headquarters on 30 Avenue Montaigne, where Christian Dior first set up shop in 1946. He called it a “refuge…

LET’S GO TO A MUSEUM! A FEW OF MY FAVORITES

Most of us have our favorite museums which stimulate and enlighten our innately curious nature. We visit to view the ancient iconography and artistic creations of our world’s diverse cultures,…and also to experience the creativity of the new. The first museum I visited as a small…

THE WONDROUS ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM

A visit to the the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was on our itinerary while visiting our grandson in Boston last April. I read about the museum over the years and watched the Netflix program, “This Is a Robbery”, about the unsolved robbery of 13 priceless masterpieces in 1990…