Small Paris museums give you a substitute for the large venues when you'd like to prevent the crowds there. See which museums to check out here.
Fan of Klimt, Schiele & Co., Not long ago i wanted to have a leisurely glance at the Grand Palais blockbuster exhibition on Vienne 1900. I picked a weekday mid-afternoon, assuming I can whizz in and loiter through. Oops! I prearranged prior to entry (in freezing weather) for more than one hour. And when I managed to get a glimpse of the over-populated jostling taking place inside, lost the battle.
If body-contact sport isn't your well suited for expo-visiting in Paris (or elsewhere), try small museums.
Here is a sampling of Parisian fares on this vein, where - in spite of the displays' intrinsic interest, and English documentation generally available - you're not prone to have your feet trampled or why not be elbowed in the ribs. Some are so tiny they may not bestart by wandering down rue Antoine Bourdelle, 15e arrondissement (district) nearby the Gare Montparnasse. At no. 18 you can't not notice, by way of a grillwork fence, the garden hosting a bronze horse almost two storeys high.
Here is thein the sculptor (1861-1929) to whom the road is called, and whose work - fittingly for a small museum? - was grandiose in intent and result. The design and style is somewhere between rough-hewn Rodin (with whom he collaborated for a whileIn view are types of his inclination for antiquity and exoticism that range from statues of Sappho and Archer Heracles to some monumental portrayal of Polish national poet Mickiewicz and bas-reliefs of music, drama, etc. for thatIt was inaugurated having a scandalous premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, danced with a rather lightly clad Nijinsky. That year Bourdelle exhibited work at New York's landmark Armory Show.
