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Cluny Museum

6 Place Paul Painlevé - 75005 Paris

This is, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful museums of Paris. What will first surprise you is that you’ll find it at a regular street corner: a castle in the heart of the city of Paris. Past the entrance courtyard, where you first find relics of the past, the museum is a treasure that merges with the history of the building (a former home of the abbots of Cluny dating from the fifteenth century) and its “Gallo Roman” baths from the late 1st century. The National Museum of the Middle Ages offers a magnificent collection, spanning 1,000 years of art with statues, stained glass elements, architecture and is constantly updating through excavations and withs paintings, jewelry, and relics of hunting and war.
The jewel of this museum is undoubtedly the six tapestries named: The Hangings of “the Lady and the Unicorn” that date from the late fifteenth century and represent an allegory of the five senses: Touch, Taste, Smell , Ear, and the view. But the interpretation of the sixth tapestry remains to this day a mystery. Some see the “sixth sense” which is “only interpreted by deducting the meaning of the five senses”. You can read, framed in the signature “A & I”: the motto “My only desire” on top of a blue tent.
Also discover the lower level, a beautiful 15m vaulted room that was once the “frigidarium,” or cold room, of the Gallo-Roman baths and at the top level a Gothic chapel.

© karen Gallo

© karen Gallo

© karen Gallo

© karen Gallo

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Tel: 01 53 73 78 00

Opening hours: from 9:15am to 5:45 p.m. every day of the week except Tuesday

Closures: Tuesday and January 1st, May 1st and December 25th

Full price: € 8 / reduced price: 6 €

Free for children under 18

Free the first Sunday of the month

Metro Cluny – La Sorbonne (line 10)

http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/

6 Place Paul Painlevé - 75005 Paris