Four nights in Paris
It was very busy 5 days break. I visited most of main tourist spots ( Versail, Eiffel Tower, Disneyland ), but the most interesting place I would like to recommend to you modelmakers was Palais de Chaillot opposite to Eiffel Tower. I went to see its three pernament galleries.
The Galerie des Moulages, presenting life-sized fragments of French architectural masterpieces from the 12th to 18th centuries cast in plaster. It was filled with amazing details copied from the most monumental buildings in France collected in one place. But the best of all were museum quality plaster architectural models of french buildings ! I took lots of photos of this part of exhibition, you can see some of them here.
Second was the Galerie des Peintures Murales et des Vitraux (wall paintings and stained-glass windows), based on the same principle of reproducing outstanding pictorial works from historic monuments. Each piece of work was shown with little model of the original building .
There was also a huge model of castle which could very well serve as wargame table from players’ wildest dream.
Lastly the new Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine, devoted to architecture from 1850 to the present day. This was a long room full of architectural models of all kind. Unfortunately it was forbiden to take pictures in this part of museum 
I only managed to shot first two models and they were not the most impresive ones.
I would definetly recommend to put this museum on “to see list” for everybody who is going to Paris and is interested in architecture or models.
It was very busy 5 days break. I visited most of main tourist spots ( Versail, Eiffel Tower, Disneyland ), but the most interesting place I would like to recommend to you modelmakers was Palais de Chaillot opposite to Eiffel Tower. I went to see its three pernament galleries.
The Galerie des Moulages, presenting life-sized fragments of French architectural masterpieces from the 12th to 18th centuries cast in plaster. It was filled with amazing details copied from the most monumental buildings in France collected in one place. But the best of all were museum quality plaster architectural models of french buildings ! I took lots of photos of this part of exhibition, you can see some of them here.
Second was the Galerie des Peintures Murales et des Vitraux (wall paintings and stained-glass windows), based on the same principle of reproducing outstanding pictorial works from historic monuments. Each piece of work was shown with little model of the original building .
There was also a huge model of castle which could very well serve as wargame table from players’ wildest dream.
Lastly the new Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine, devoted to architecture from 1850 to the present day. This was a long room full of architectural models of all kind. Unfortunately it was forbiden to take pictures in this part of museum I only managed to shot first two models and they were not the most impresive ones.
I would definetly recommend to put this museum on “to see list” for everybody who is going to Paris and is interested in architecture or models.
It was very busy 5 days break. I visited most of main tourist spots ( Versail, Eiffel Tower, Disneyland ), but the most interesting place I would like to recommend to you modelmakers was Palais de Chaillot opposite to Eiffel Tower. I went to see its three pernament galleries.
The Galerie des Moulages, presenting life-sized fragments of French architectural masterpieces from the 12th to 18th centuries cast in plaster. It was filled with amazing details copied from the most monumental buildings in France collected in one place. But the best of all were museum quality plaster architectural models of french buildings ! I took lots of photos of this part of exhibition, you can see some of them here.
Second was the Galerie des Peintures Murales et des Vitraux (wall paintings and stained-glass windows), based on the same principle of reproducing outstanding pictorial works from historic monuments. Each piece of work was shown with little model of the original building .
There was also a huge model of castle which could very well serve as wargame table from players’ wildest dream.
Lastly the new Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine, devoted to architecture from 1850 to the present day. This was a long room full of architectural models of all kind. Unfortunately it was forbiden to take pictures in this part of museum I only managed to shot first two models and they were not the most impresive ones.
I would definetly recommend to put this museum on “to see list” for everybody who is going to Paris and is interested in architecture or models.
