didier Meurgues

1) MUSEUMS :

The Mus�e de la chasse (hunting) et de la nature will finally open
mid-January 2007 with a delay of 2 months on the previous date.

The architecture museum opens in totality in March 2007.
The National museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre)
reopens in totality the 2 April 2007.

And later, for example, according to :
http://pro.parisinfo.com/rubrique.ph...model=p_detail
http://www.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_3.pdf
http://de.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_4.pdf , and other
websites :
- Natural history museum greenhouses
- Henner, H�bert, Ennery (small) museums
- Fashion & design city
- Sport museum
- Islamic departement of the Louvre, etc...

A) TO (RE)OPEN :
2007 :
- mid-january 2007 : Hunting and nature museum
http://www.chassenature.org
- 31 January 2007 : modern collection (until 1945 ?) of the National
museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) ;
- March 2007 (totally) : Architecture museum :
http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
- 2 April 2007 : contemporary collection (from 1945 ?) of the National
museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) :
www.centrepompidou.fr
- April ? 2007 : HIstory of immigration museum (Palais de la Porte
Dor�e)
www.histoire-immigration.fr
http://www.musee-afriqueoceanie.fr
- April ? 2007 : Gobelins tapestries museum (galerie des Gobelins)
No special website :
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/a...porain06/2.htm
http://www.monum.fr/visitez/decouvri...?lang=fr&id=77
http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/monuments/32b.htm

B) LATELY (RE)OPENED :
- 17 April 2005 : Cernuschi museum : City of Paris asiatic arts museum
    : www.cernuschi.paris.fr ;
- 28 September 2005 : french Cin�math�que + cinema museum (in a F.
Gehry refurbished building) :
www.cinemathequefrancaise.com ;
- 10 December 2005 : Petit Palais : City of Paris fine arts museum :
www.petit-palais.paris.fr ;
- 2 February 2006 : City of Paris modern arts museum :
www.mam.paris.fr ;
- 16 March 2006 : Grand Palais (temporarily exhibitions) :
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/Grand%...lais%20champs-...
(facades cleaning nearly finished) ;
- 27 April 2006 : Odeon theatre :
www.theatre-odeon.fr ;
- 17 May 2006 : Orangerie museum :
www.musee-orangerie.fr ;
- 22 May 2006 : Trocadero aquarium :
http://www.cineaqua.com, then "our
place";
- 16 June 2006 : Zadkine museum (1st phase renovation)
www.zadkine.paris.fr
- 23 June 2006 : Quai Branly museum : african, amerindian and oceanian
arts :
http://www.quaibranly.fr ;
- 1 July 2006 : Army museum - invalides (1871-1945 rooms)
(Middle Ages - Louis XIII reopened since end of 2005 ; Louis XIV - 1870
to reopen in 2008) ;
http://www.invalides.org
http://www.invalides.org/pages/athena.html
- 13 September 2006 : Salle Pleyel (concerts) :
www.pleyel.com ;
- 15 September 2006 : Decorative arts museum :
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
- October 2006 (auditorium and architectural news rooms ONLY) :
Architecture museum :
http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm

2) MAIN EXHIBITIONS (BY DATES OF ENDING)
ON SHOW AROUND CHRISTMAS PERIOD (FROM DECEMBER 1, 2006 TO JANUARY 31,
2007) :

In particular, by order of importance, according to me :
the 3 (not 1 :+( ..! ) Rembrandt exhibitions, portaits 1750-1830,
French 17th c. caravagism (peintres de la r�alit�), Hogarth, Titian,
Venice and the Orient, egyptian maritime archeology (�gypte tr�sors
engloutis), Rouault - Matisse, Maurice Denis, Klein, Rauschenberg,
Desiserio da Settignano, Afghan national museum treasures, Thracia
golds, Sassanide Persia, Rispal art nouveau donation, Balenciaga,
German expressionist cinema, Monet japanese prints, humanist
photography 1945-1968, Doisneau, N�andertal man, Herg�, 5 milliards
d'ann�es, etc...

D�CEMBRE :
07.12-17.12 : Salon d'Automne : Grand Palais ?
23.06-17.12 : Ciwara chim�res africaines (african sculpture) : Mus�e
du quai Branly
28.09-28.12 : Napol�on III & l'Europe : Mus�e de l'Arm�e
15.09-30.12 : Les perses sassanides (sassanide Persia) : Mus�e
Cernuschi
14.09-31.12 : 5 milliards d'ann�es (contemporary artists) : Palais
de Tokyo

JANUARY :
11.10-07.01 : Rembrandt (engravings) : Biblioth�que Nationale
Richelieu
29.11-07.01 : Biom�trie : Cit� des Sciences La Villette
20.09-08.01 : Picasso & Berggruen : Mus�e Picasso
20.10-08.01 : Rembrandt (drawings) : Louvre
20.10-08.01 : william Hogarth : Louvre
04.10-08.01 : Portraits publics - portraits priv�s (portraits
1750-1830) : Grand Palais
13.10-08.01 : L'Homme de N�andertal (prehistory) : Mus�e de
l'Homme
25.10-08.01 : Acquisitions r�centes (drawings : for the last 5 years)
    : MNAM Centre Pompidou
19.10-14.01 : Rembrandt (engravings) : Petit Palais
21.10-14.01 : Collection Sylvio Perlstein : Maison Rouge
04.10-15.01 : Gravures du Seicento (engravings) de la collection E. de
Rothschild : Louvre
15?.01 : R�-opening : Mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature
11.10-15.01 : Robert Rauschenberg : MNAM Centre Pompidou
11.10-15.01 : Candida H�fer (photos) : Louvre
13.09-21.01 : Titian : Mus�e du Luxembourg
18.09-21.01 : D'un regard l'autre (reciproque perceptions of Europe
and other civilisations) : Mus�e du Quai Branly
25.10-21.01 : �diter le design : Mus�e des Arts d�coratifs
31.10-21.01 : Maurice Denis (+ photos intimes + 2 acquisitions) :
Mus�e d'Orsay
27.10-22.01 : Desiserio da Settignano : Louvre
06.07-28.01 : Balenciaga : Mus�e de la Mode UCAD
31.10-28.01 : La photographie humaniste 1945-1968 (Izis, Boubat,
Brassa�, Doisneau, Ronis, etc...) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
21.11-28.01 : Autour de 1900 - donation Rispal (art nouveau donation) :
Mus�e d'Orsay
05.04-29.01 : Le mouvement des images : MNAM Centre Pompidou
26.10-29.01 : Le cin�ma expressionniste allemand (german
expressionnist cinema) : Cin�math�que
14.10-31.01 : L'or des Thraces (Thracia golds) : Mus�e
Jacquemat-Andr�
31.01 : R�ouverture de la collection moderne : MNAM Centre
Pompidou

FEBRUARY :
27.10-04.02 : Gary Hill & Tabaimo (contemporary artists) : Fondation
Cartier
07.11-04.02 : Antonin Arthaud (writer) : Biblioth�que Nationale
Tolbiac
05.10-05.02 : Yves Klein (most important 60ies french artist) : MNAM
Centre Pompidou
27.10-11.02 : Rouault - Matisse : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
25.10-12.02 : Hiroshi Sugimoto : MNAM Atelier Brancusi
03.10-18.02 : Venise et l'Orient : Institut du Monde Arabe
17.11-19.02 : Henriette de Verninac de David � Delacroix : Mus�e
Delacroix
20.12-19.02 : Herg� (cartoon) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
18.10-25.02 : �ric Desmazi�res (contemporary artists) : Mus�e
Carnavalet
15.11-25.02 : Les estampes japonaises de Monet (Monet japanese prints)
    : Mus�e Marmottan
28.11-25.02 : Le si�cle des saint-simoniens (socio-literary movement)
    : Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal
19.10-27.02 : Doisneau (photo) : H�tel de Ville

MARCH :
21.11-05.03 : 1934 Les peintres de la r�alit� (french 17th c.
caravagism) : Mus�e de l'Orangerie
08.12-16.03 : �gypte tr�sors engloutis (egyptian maritime archeology
    : Alexandria ?) : Grand Palais
08.11-25.03 : La photo publicitaire en France de Man Ray � Goude :
Mus�e de la Publicit�
30.03 : Ouverture totale (mus�e) : Cit� de l'Architecture

APRIL :
02.04 : R�ouverture de la collection contemporaine : MNAM
Centre Pompidou
07.04 : R�ouverture de la galerie des Gobelins (expo :
1607-2007 quatre si�cles de cr�ation)
06.12-30.04 : Afghanistan tr�sors retrouv�s (afghan national museum
treasures) : Mus�e Guimet

MAY :
21.11-26.05 : Hom�re : Biblioth�que Nationale Tolbiac

JUNE :
02.04-04.06 : Arshile Gorki : MNAM Centre Pompidou (just for info since
it begins only in April)
25.10-08.06 : Vija Celmins (drawings) : MNAM Centre Pompidou

didier Meurgues

didier Meurgues

Modifications... skip the former post :

1) MUSEUMS :

- The Mus�e de la chasse (hunting) et de la nature will finally
re-open
mid-January 2007 with a delay of 2 months on the previous date.

- The architecture museum opens in totality the 30 March 2007.
- The National museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre)
reopens in totality the 2 April 2007.
- The tapestries museum re-opens the 7 April 2007 with the exhibition :
1607-2007 four centuries of creation (PS : despite the... TERRIBLE
collections' fire of 1871).
- The museum of immigration should (?) open in April 2007 in the former
African and oceanian arts museum. I can already... guess the ridiculous
and disgusting "foreign" deliberate mediatic cover that the Quai Branly
museum opening recently enjoyed...!

And later, for example, according to :
http://pro.parisinfo.com/rubrique.ph...d_article=234&...

http://www.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_3.pdf
http://de.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_4.pdf , and other
websites :
- Natural history museum mexican greenhouses
- Henner, H�bert, Ennery (small) museums
- Fashion & design city
- Sport museum
- Islamic departement of the Louvre, etc...


A) TO (RE)OPEN :
2007 :
- mid-january 2007 : Hunting and nature museum
http://www.chassenature.org
- 31 January 2007 : modern collection (until 1945) of the National
museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) ;
- 30 March 2007 (totally) : Architecture museum :
http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
- 2 April 2007 : contemporary collection (from 1945) of the National
museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) :
www.centrepompidou.fr
- April ? 2007 : History of immigration museum (Palais de la Porte
Dor�e)
www.histoire-immigration.fr
http://www.musee-afriqueoceanie.fr
- April ? 2007 : Gobelins tapestries museum (galerie des Gobelins)
No special website yet :
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/a.../arts-plastiqu...

http://www.monum.fr/visitez/decouvri...?lang=fr&id=77
http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/monuments/32b.htm


B) LATELY (RE)OPENED :
- 17 April 2005 : Cernuschi museum : City of Paris asiatic arts museum
    : www.cernuschi.paris.fr ;
- 28 September 2005 : french Cin�math�que + cinema museum (in a F.
Gehry refurbished building) :
www.cinemathequefrancaise.com ;
- 10 December 2005 : Petit Palais : City of Paris fine arts museum :
www.petit-palais.paris.fr ;
- 2 February 2006 : City of Paris modern arts museum :
www.mam.paris.fr ;
- 16 March 2006 : Grand Palais (temporarily exhibitions) :
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/Grand%...lais%20champs-...

(facades cleaning nearly finished) ;
- 27 April 2006 : Odeon theatre :
www.theatre-odeon.fr ;
- 17 May 2006 : Orangerie museum :
www.musee-orangerie.fr ;
- 22 May 2006 : Trocadero aquarium :
http://www.cineaqua.com, then "our
place";
- 16 June 2006 : Zadkine museum (1st phase renovation)
www.zadkine.paris.fr
- 23 June 2006 : Quai Branly museum : african, amerindian and oceanian
arts :
http://www.quaibranly.fr ;
- 1 July 2006 : Army museum - invalides (1871-1945 rooms)
(Middle Ages - Louis XIII reopened since end of 2005 ; Louis XIV - 1871
to reopen in 2008) ;
http://www.invalides.org
http://www.invalides.org/pages/athena.html
- 13 September 2006 : Salle Pleyel (concerts) :
www.pleyel.com ;
- 15 September 2006 : Decorative arts museum :
http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
- 25 October 2006 (ONLY the auditorium and architectural news gallery)
    : Architecture museum :
http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm


2) MAIN EXHIBITIONS (LISTED BY DATES OF ENDING)
ON SHOW AROUND CHRISTMAS PERIOD (FROM DECEMBER 1, 2006 TO JANUARY 31,
2007) :

http://fr.parisinfo.com/sortir_a_paris/rub864.html
PS : I deliberately skip the photo museums exhibitions of :
www.jeudepaume.org
http://www.cnp-photographie.com
http://www.mep-fr.org

In particular, by order of importance, according to me :
the 3 (not 1..! :+( ) Rembrandt (engravings + drawings) exhibitions,
portaits 1770-1830,
French 17th c. caravagism (peintres de la r�alit�), Hogarth, Titian,
Venice and the Orient, egyptian maritime archeology (�gypte tr�sors
engloutis), Rouault - Matisse, Maurice Denis, Yves Klein, Robert
Rauschenberg,
Afghan national museum treasures, Desiserio da Settignano, Thracia
gold, Sassanide Persia, Rispal's art nouveau donation, Balenciaga,
German expressionist cinema, Monet japanese prints, recent drawings
acquisitions of the MNAM Centre Pompidou, Vija Celmins, humanist
photography 1945-1968, Walt Disney, Herg�, Doisneau, Seuls dans
l'univers? (extraterestrial life), N�andertal man, guitars, Hom�re,
Arthaud, Napol�on III, etc...


D�CEMBRE :
07.12-17.12 : Salon d'Automne : Grand Palais ?
23.06-17.12 : Ciwara chim�res africaines (african sculpture) : Mus�e
du quai Branly
28.09-28.12 : Napol�on III & l'Europe : Mus�e de l'Arm�e
15.09-30.12 : Les perses sassanides (sassanide Persia) : Mus�e
Cernuschi
14.09-31.12 : 5 milliards d'ann�es (contemporary artists) : Palais
de Tokyo


JANVIER :
11.10-07.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
27.10-07.01 : Karen Kilimnik : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
29.11-07.01 : Biom�trie : Cit� des Sciences La Villette
20.09-08.01 : Picasso in the Berggruen collection : Mus�e Picasso
20.10-08.01 : Rembrandt dessinateur : Louvre
20.10-08.01 : William Hogarth : Louvre
04.10-08.01 : Portraits publics - portraits priv�s 1770-1830 : Grand
Palais
13.10-08.01 : L'Homme de N�andertal : Mus�e de l'Homme
25.10-08.01 : Acquisitions r�centes (dessins)) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
05.10-14.01 : Travelling guitars : Mus�e de la musique
19.10-14.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Petit Palais
21.10-14.01 : Collection Sylvio Perlstein : Maison Rouge
XX.01 : R�ouverture : Mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature
16.09-15.01 : Il �tait une fois Walt Disney : Grand Palais
04.10-15.01 : Gravures du Seicento de la collection E. de Rothschild :
Louvre
11.10-15.01 : Robert Rauschenberg : MNAM Centre Pompidou
11.10-15.01 : Candida H�fer (photos) : Louvre
13.09-21.01 : Titien : Mus�e du Luxembourg
18.09-21.01 : D'un regard l'autre (occidental and non occidental
reciproque sights) : Mus�e du Quai Branly
25.10-21.01 : �diter le design (design) : Mus�e des Arts d�coratifs
31.10-21.01 : Maurice Denis (+ photos intimes + 2 acquisitions de
dessins) : Mus�e d'Orsay
27.10-22.01 : Desiserio da Settignano : Louvre
27.10-14.01 : Tacita Dean : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
06.07-28.01 : Balenciaga : Mus�e de la Mode UCAD
31.10-28.01 : La photographie humaniste 1945-1968 (Izis, Boubat,
Brassa�, Doisneau, Ronis, etc...) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
21.11-28.01 : Autour de 1900 - donation Rispal d'art nouveau : Mus�e
d'Orsay
05.04-29.01 : Le mouvement des images (cinema in 20th c. art) : MNAM
Centre Pompidou
26.10-29.01 : Le cin�ma expressionniste allemand : Cin�math�que
14.10-31.01 : L'or des Thraces : Mus�e Jacquemat-Andr�
31.01 : R�ouverture de la collection moderne : MNAM Centre
Pompidou

FEBRUARY :
27.10-04.02 : Gary Hill & Tabaimo (contemporary artists) : Fondation
Cartier
07.11-04.02 : Antonin Arthaud (writer) : Biblioth�que Nationale
Tolbiac
05.10-05.02 : Yves Klein (most important 1960ies french artist) : MNAM
Centre Pompidou
27.10-11.02 : Rouault - Matisse : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
25.10-12.02 : Hiroshi Sugimoto : MNAM Atelier Brancusi
03.10-18.02 : Venise et l'Orient : Institut du Monde Arabe
17.11-19.02 : Henriette de Verninac de David � Delacroix : Mus�e
Delacroix
20.12-19.02 : Herg� (cartoon) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
18.10-25.02 : �ric Desmazi�res (secondary contemporary artist) :
Mus�e
Carnavalet
15.11-25.02 : Les estampes japonaises de Monet (Monet japanese prints)
    : Mus�e Marmottan
28.11-25.02 : Le si�cle des saint-simoniens (socio-litterary movement)

    : Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal
19.10-27.02 : Doisneau (photo) : H�tel de Ville


MARCH :
21.11-05.03 : 1934 Les peintres de la r�alit� (french 17th c.
caravagism) : Mus�e de l'Orangerie
08.12-16.03 : �gypte tr�sors engloutis (egyptian maritime archeology
    : Alexandria ?) : Grand Palais
08.11-25.03 : La photo publicitaire en France de Man Ray � Goude :
Mus�e de la Publicit�
30.03 : Ouverture totale (mus�e) : Cit� de l'Architecture


APRIL :
02.04 : R�ouverture de la collection contemporaine : MNAM
Centre Pompidou
07.04 : R�ouverture de la galerie des Gobelins (expo :
1607-2007 quatre si�cles de cr�ation)
06.12-30.04 : Afghanistan tr�sors retrouv�s (afghan national museum
treasures) : Mus�e Guimet


MAY :
21.11-26.05 : Hom�re : Biblioth�que Nationale Tolbiac


JUNE :
02.04-04.06 : Arshile Gorki : MNAM Centre Pompidou (just for info,
since
it begins only in April)
25.10-08.06 : Vija Celmins (drawings) : MNAM Centre Pompidou

JULY :
14.11-22.07 : Seuls dans l'univers? (extraterestrial life?) : Cit� des
Sciences La Villette

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didier Meurgues

Yesterday, the 22 November 2006 the National museum of the Legion of
Honour (no website) re-opened after 3 years of refurbishment, from
wednesdays to sundays and 13:00 to 18:00.
I forgot it...! Outside the french and foreign orders collection, the
main interest of the museum is his interesting "post"-Napoleon III
decoration (1878), one of the rare preserved in Paris, created after
tthe Commune fire of 1871 wich destroyed the original decor of this
typically end-18th.neo-classical parisian mansion.

I've seen 3 of the 4 actual Rembrandt exhibitions in Paris. The 4
parisians collections (National Library (BNF), Louvre, Petit Palais
(370 pieces), Custodia Foundation (not included the few pieces in
provincial museums)) holds nearly 100 % of the Rembrandts engravings,
with their differents states, in particular the BNF (90 %), thanks to
the acquisition of an important collection by Louis XVI, a
few-knowned... dutch-flemish art amateur, in 1784.
All are interesting IMO. The Louvre holds and shows mainly drawings,
the 3 others their engravings, notably the BNF site Richelieu with the
main pieces (100 florints piece, 3 cross, Ecce Homo, etc...) and most
of their different states completed by the 2 others exhib.

http://expositions.bnf.fr/rembrandt/index.htm
http://expositions.bnf.fr/rembrandt/feuille/icono.htm

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/...69&bmLocale=en

http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/...rtlet_id=14049
http://www.paris.fr/portail/viewmult...ument-id=22419
    : selection of pieces at the end.

http://www.fondationcustodia.fr/fran...t_rembrand.cfm
http://www.fondationcustodia.fr/engl...t.cfm?gr=menu3

The 3 ancien art exhibitions are interesting as well :

Afghan national museum treasures (which got out of the country for the
1st time) at mus�e Guimet,

http://www.museeguimet.fr/homes/home_id20641_u1l2.htm

Sassanides parthes with an exceptionnal gathering of the pieces of US
(MET), V & A, Louvre, Hermitage, Berlin, Iran museums, etc.. in silver
and gold (nearly all...!), coins, sculptures, mosaics, cameos,
textiles, glass, etc...

http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/...rtlet_id=12991

and Thracian gold :

http://www.villa-kerylos.com/fr/jacquemart

As well as portraits 1770-1830 at the Grand Palais with MANY large
formats of the main english, french, german and spanish portraitists in
particular

http://www.rmn.fr/galeriesnationales...its/index.html

didier Meurgues a �crit :

    > Modifications... skip the former post :
    > 1) MUSEUMS :
    > - The Mus�e de la chasse (hunting) et de la nature will finally
    > re-open
    > mid-January 2007 with a delay of 2 months on the previous date.
    > - The architecture museum opens in totality the 30 March 2007.
    > - The National museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre)
    > reopens in totality the 2 April 2007.
    > - The tapestries museum re-opens the 7 April 2007 with the exhibition :
    > 1607-2007 four centuries of creation (PS : despite the... TERRIBLE
    > collections' fire of 1871).
    > - The museum of immigration should (?) open in April 2007 in the former
    > African and oceanian arts museum. I can already... guess the ridiculous
    > and disgusting "foreign" deliberate mediatic cover that the Quai Branly
    > museum opening recently enjoyed...!
    > And later, for example, according to :
    > http://pro.parisinfo.com/rubrique.ph...d_article=234&...
    > http://www.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_3.pdf
    > http://de.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_4.pdf , and other
    > websites :
    > - Natural history museum mexican greenhouses
    > - Henner, H�bert, Ennery (small) museums
    > - Fashion & design city
    > - Sport museum
    > - Islamic departement of the Louvre, etc...
    > A) TO (RE)OPEN :
    > 2007 :
    > - mid-january 2007 : Hunting and nature museum
    > http://www.chassenature.org
    > - 31 January 2007 : modern collection (until 1945) of the National
    > museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) ;
    > - 30 March 2007 (totally) : Architecture museum :
    > http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
    > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
    > - 2 April 2007 : contemporary collection (from 1945) of the National
    > museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) :
    > www.centrepompidou.fr
    > - April ? 2007 : History of immigration museum (Palais de la Porte
    > Dor�e)
    > www.histoire-immigration.fr
    > http://www.musee-afriqueoceanie.fr
    > - April ? 2007 : Gobelins tapestries museum (galerie des Gobelins)
    > No special website yet :
    > http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/a.../arts-plastiqu...
    > http://www.monum.fr/visitez/decouvri...?lang=fr&id=77
    > http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/monuments/32b.htm
    > B) LATELY (RE)OPENED :
    > - 17 April 2005 : Cernuschi museum : City of Paris asiatic arts museum
    > : www.cernuschi.paris.fr ;
    > - 28 September 2005 : french Cin�math�que + cinema museum (in a F.
    > Gehry refurbished building) :
    > www.cinemathequefrancaise.com ;
    > - 10 December 2005 : Petit Palais : City of Paris fine arts museum :
    > www.petit-palais.paris.fr ;
    > - 2 February 2006 : City of Paris modern arts museum :
    > www.mam.paris.fr ;
    > - 16 March 2006 : Grand Palais (temporarily exhibitions) :
    > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/Grand%...lais%20champs-...
    > (facades cleaning nearly finished) ;
    > - 27 April 2006 : Odeon theatre :
    > www.theatre-odeon.fr ;
    > - 17 May 2006 : Orangerie museum :
    > www.musee-orangerie.fr ;
    > - 22 May 2006 : Trocadero aquarium :
    > http://www.cineaqua.com, then "our
    > place";
    > - 16 June 2006 : Zadkine museum (1st phase renovation)
    > www.zadkine.paris.fr
    > - 23 June 2006 : Quai Branly museum : african, amerindian and oceanian
    > arts :
    > http://www.quaibranly.fr ;
    > - 1 July 2006 : Army museum - invalides (1871-1945 rooms)
    > (Middle Ages - Louis XIII reopened since end of 2005 ; Louis XIV - 1871
    > to reopen in 2008) ;
    > http://www.invalides.org
    > http://www.invalides.org/pages/athena.html
    > - 13 September 2006 : Salle Pleyel (concerts) :
    > www.pleyel.com ;
    > - 15 September 2006 : Decorative arts museum :
    > http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
    > - 25 October 2006 (ONLY the auditorium and architectural news gallery)
    > : Architecture museum :
    > http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
    > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
    > - 22 November 2006 : National museum of the Legion of Honour (no website)
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mi...PWD=4%24%2534P,
then search with "legion"

    > 2) MAIN EXHIBITIONS (LISTED BY DATES OF ENDING)
    > ON SHOW AROUND CHRISTMAS PERIOD (FROM DECEMBER 1, 2006 TO JANUARY 31,
    > 2007) :
    > http://fr.parisinfo.com/sortir_a_paris/rub864.html
    > PS : I deliberately skip the photo museums exhibitions of :
    > www.jeudepaume.org
    > http://www.cnp-photographie.com
    > http://www.mep-fr.org
    > In particular, by order of importance, according to me :
    > the 3 (not 1..! :+( ) Rembrandt (engravings + drawings) exhibitions,
    > portaits 1770-1830,
    > French 17th c. caravagism (peintres de la r�alit�), Hogarth, Titian,
    > Venice and the Orient, egyptian maritime archeology (�gypte tr�sors
    > engloutis), Rouault - Matisse, Maurice Denis, Yves Klein, Robert
    > Rauschenberg,
    > Afghan national museum treasures, Desiserio da Settignano, Thracia
    > gold, Sassanide Persia, Rispal's art nouveau donation, Balenciaga,
    > German expressionist cinema, Monet japanese prints, recent drawings
    > acquisitions of the MNAM Centre Pompidou, Vija Celmins, humanist
    > photography 1945-1968, Walt Disney, Herg�, Doisneau, Seuls dans
    > l'univers? (extraterestrial life), N�andertal man, guitars, Hom�re,
    > Arthaud, Napol�on III, etc...
    > D�CEMBRE :
    > 05.10.-03.12 : Rembrandt et son entourage (engravings) + Le voyage en France (dutch drawings) : Fondation Custodia
    > 07.12-17.12 : Salon d'Automne : Grand Palais ?
    > 23.06-17.12 : Ciwara chim�res africaines (african sculpture) : Mus�e
    > du quai Branly
    > 28.09-28.12 : Napol�on III & l'Europe : Mus�e de l'Arm�e
    > 15.09-30.12 : Les perses sassanides (sassanide Persia) : Mus�e
    > Cernuschi
    > 14.09-31.12 : 5 milliards d'ann�es (contemporary artists) : Palais
    > de Tokyo
    > JANVIER :
    > 11.10-07.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
    > 27.10-07.01 : Karen Kilimnik : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > 29.11-07.01 : Biom�trie : Cit� des Sciences La Villette
    > 20.09-08.01 : Picasso in the Berggruen collection : Mus�e Picasso
    > 20.10-08.01 : Rembrandt dessinateur : Louvre
    > 20.10-08.01 : William Hogarth : Louvre
    > 04.10-08.01 : Portraits publics - portraits priv�s 1770-1830 : Grand
    > Palais
    > 13.10-08.01 : L'Homme de N�andertal : Mus�e de l'Homme
    > 25.10-08.01 : Acquisitions r�centes (dessins)) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > 05.10-14.01 : Travelling guitars : Mus�e de la musique
    > 19.10-14.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Petit Palais
    > 21.10-14.01 : Collection Sylvio Perlstein : Maison Rouge
    > XX.01 : R�ouverture : Mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature
    > 16.09-15.01 : Il �tait une fois Walt Disney : Grand Palais
    > 04.10-15.01 : Gravures du Seicento de la collection E. de Rothschild :
    > Louvre
    > 11.10-15.01 : Robert Rauschenberg : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > 11.10-15.01 : Candida H�fer (photos) : Louvre
    > 13.09-21.01 : Titien : Mus�e du Luxembourg
    > 18.09-21.01 : D'un regard l'autre (occidental and non occidental
    > reciproque sights) : Mus�e du Quai Branly
    > 25.10-21.01 : �diter le design (design) : Mus�e des Arts d�coratifs
    > 31.10-21.01 : Maurice Denis (+ photos intimes + 2 acquisitions de
    > dessins) : Mus�e d'Orsay
    > 27.10-22.01 : Desiserio da Settignano : Louvre
    > 27.10-14.01 : Tacita Dean : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > 06.07-28.01 : Balenciaga : Mus�e de la Mode UCAD
    > 31.10-28.01 : La photographie humaniste 1945-1968 (Izis, Boubat,
    > Brassa�, Doisneau, Ronis, etc...) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
    > 21.11-28.01 : Autour de 1900 - donation Rispal d'art nouveau : Mus�e
    > d'Orsay
    > 05.04-29.01 : Le mouvement des images (cinema in 20th c. art) : MNAM
    > Centre Pompidou
    > 26.10-29.01 : Le cin�ma expressionniste allemand : Cin�math�que
    > 14.10-31.01 : L'or des Thraces : Mus�e Jacquemat-Andr�
    > 31.01 : R�ouverture de la collection moderne : MNAM Centre
    > Pompidou
    > FEBRUARY :
    > 27.10-04.02 : Gary Hill & Tabaimo (contemporary artists) : Fondation
    > Cartier
    > 07.11-04.02 : Antonin Arthaud (writer) : Biblioth�que Nationale
    > Tolbiac
    > 05.10-05.02 : Yves Klein (most important 1960ies french artist) : MNAM
    > Centre Pompidou
    > 27.10-11.02 : Rouault - Matisse : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > 25.10-12.02 : Hiroshi Sugimoto : MNAM Atelier Brancusi
    > 03.10-18.02 : Venise et l'Orient : Institut du Monde Arabe
    > 17.11-19.02 : Henriette de Verninac de David � Delacroix : Mus�e
    > Delacroix
    > 20.12-19.02 : Herg� (cartoon) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > 18.10-25.02 : �ric Desmazi�res (secondary contemporary artist) :
    > Mus�e
    > Carnavalet
    > 15.11-25.02 : Les estampes japonaises de Monet (Monet japanese prints)
    > : Mus�e Marmottan
    > 28.11-25.02 : Le si�cle des saint-simoniens (socio-litterary movement)
    > : Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal
    > 19.10-27.02 : Doisneau (photo) : H�tel de Ville
    > MARCH :
    > 21.11-05.03 : 1934 Les peintres de la r�alit� (french 17th c.
    > caravagism) : Mus�e de l'Orangerie
    > 08.12-16.03 : �gypte tr�sors engloutis (egyptian maritime archeology
    > : Alexandria ?) : Grand Palais
    > 08.11-25.03 : La photo publicitaire en France de Man Ray � Goude :
    > Mus�e de la Publicit�
    > 30.03 : Ouverture totale (mus�e) : Cit� de l'Architecture
    > APRIL :
    > 02.04 : R�ouverture de la collection contemporaine : MNAM
    > Centre Pompidou
    > 07.04 : R�ouverture de la galerie des Gobelins (expo :
    > 1607-2007 quatre si�cles de cr�ation)
    > 06.12-30.04 : Afghanistan tr�sors retrouv�s (afghan national museum
    > treasures) : Mus�e Guimet
    > MAY :
    > 21.11-26.05 : Hom�re : Biblioth�que Nationale Tolbiac
    > JUNE :
    > 02.04-04.06 : Arshile Gorki : MNAM Centre Pompidou (just for info,
    > since
    > it begins only in April)
    > 25.10-08.06 : Vija Celmins (drawings) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > JULY :
    > 14.11-22.07 : Seuls dans l'univers? (extraterestrial life?) : Cit� des
    > Sciences La Villette
    >
    > didier Meurgues

didier Meurgues

(copy of recent answer to Andrew Nightingale)


There is no big fireworks in Paris for Xmas and New Eve. Only the crowd
drinking bottles and shooting mini-fireworks on the Champs Elysees.

Some streets have Xmas decorations like the Champs Elysees or some
departement stores like Galeries La Fayette - Printemps at Opera. See :

http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8282.html
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Economie...portlet_id=824

For exhibitions and newly opened or re-opened museums make a search
with "meurgues christmas exhibitions" in rec.travel europe (or buy the
very cheap "Officiel des spectacles" or "Pariscope" booklets).

http://en.parisinfo.com/show_exhibition/rub6087.html
http://en.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_5.pdf
http://en.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_4.pdf
http://en.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_3.pdf

like :
- mus�e du Petit Palais,
- mus�e du Quai Branly,
- for the "very"... curious see the Coronelli globes at the National
Library (Tolbiac site) the largest ancient ones (17th c. ) with more
than 4 m of diameter, then take the new very nice footbridge over the
Seine to the Cinemath�que in Bercy park with the museum + exhib. :
german expressionist cinema (in this matter the collection is one of
the richest).

http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/fra...rtail_expo.htm
http://www.bnf.fr
http://www.feichtingerarchitectes.co...ject.php/3/137
http://www.cinematheque.fr
etc...

See the websites given in my former message.

Thracian treasures of Bulgaria : Rogozen (end Vth c. - middle IVth c.
A.C), Borovo and Letnitsa (IVth c. A.C.), Panagjurishte (end Vth-
early
IIIth c.A.C.) includind newly discovered ones :
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.co...Une&eventId=27

Treasures of the Kaboul national museum (fortunately... saved with
their hidding by the russians under tonnes of concrete in the cellars
of the afghan national bank) :
http://www.musee-guimet.fr/homes/home_id20641_u1l2.htm

Portraits (priv�s/publics) 1770 - 1830 (UK, France, Germany, Spain,
Russia, large formats) at the Grand Palais :
http://www.rmn.fr/portraits

French 17th c. caravagism at Orangerie museum (La Tour, etc....) :
http://www.rmn.fr/peintres-realite
http://www.musee-orangerie.fr

Hogarth at the Louvre :
http://mini-site.louvre.fr/hogarth-rembrandt

Venice and the Orient at Institut du Monde
Arabe :
http://www.imarabe.org/temp/expo/venise-orient.html

Yves Klein at national museum of modern art of Beaubourg :
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompido...ionM=2.2.1&L=2

Maurice Denis + Rispal's art nouveau donation at Orsay museum :
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/ORSAY/orsa...o?OpenDocument

See also my infos about the 4 Rembrandt exhibs. (National Library -
Richelieu, Louvre, Petit Palais, Custodia Fundation) in my message
rec.travel.europe quoted below, etc...

The newly inaugurated... tramway des Mar�chaux, line T3 for... the
specialists ! :
http://www.tramway.paris.fr
http://www.ratp.fr

Corrections :
- contrarily to what I said, the mus�e de la Legion d'Honneur doesn't
allow anymore the access to the 18th c. hotel de Salm and its XIXth c.
decors... (except once a year for the "journ�es du patrimoine :
"heritage days" in September).
- due to a problem with the curators of the Hermitage museum of St
Petersburg all loans to foreign museums are stopped (the impressive
cycle of the History of Psyche presented at the Maurice Denis
exhibition of muse� d'Orsay escaped...), so their 14 items are
unfortunately not presented at the exhibition "Sassanide Persia" of the
mus�e Cernusci. :+(

didier Meurgues

didier Meurgues a �crit :

    > Yesterday, the 22 November 2006 the National museum of the Legion of
    > Honour (no website) re-opened after 3 years of refurbishment, from
    > wednesdays to sundays and 13:00 to 18:00.
    > I forgot it...! Outside the french and foreign orders collection, the
    > main interest of the museum is his interesting "post"-Napoleon III
    > decoration (1878), one of the rare preserved in Paris, created after
    > tthe Commune fire of 1871 wich destroyed the original decor of this
    > typically end-18th.neo-classical parisian mansion.
    > I've seen 3 of the 4 actual Rembrandt exhibitions in Paris. The 4
    > parisians collections (National Library (BNF), Louvre, Petit Palais
    > (370 pieces), Custodia Foundation (not included the few pieces in
    > provincial museums)) holds nearly 100 % of the Rembrandts engravings,
    > with their differents states, in particular the BNF (90 %), thanks to
    > the acquisition of an important collection by Louis XVI, a
    > few-knowned... dutch-flemish art amateur, in 1784.
    > All are interesting IMO. The Louvre holds and shows mainly drawings,
    > the 3 others their engravings, notably the BNF site Richelieu with the
    > main pieces (100 florints piece, 3 cross, Ecce Homo, etc...) and most
    > of their different states completed by the 2 others exhib.
    > http://expositions.bnf.fr/rembrandt/index.htm
    > http://expositions.bnf.fr/rembrandt/feuille/icono.htm
    > http://www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/...69&bmLocale=en
    > http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/...rtlet_id=14049
    > http://www.paris.fr/portail/viewmult...ument-id=22419
    > : selection of pieces at the end.
    > http://www.fondationcustodia.fr/fran...t_rembrand.cfm
    > http://www.fondationcustodia.fr/engl...t.cfm?gr=menu3
    > The 3 ancien art exhibitions are interesting as well :
    > Afghan national museum treasures (which got out of the country for the
    > 1st time) at mus�e Guimet,
    > http://www.museeguimet.fr/homes/home_id20641_u1l2.htm
    > Sassanides parthes with an exceptionnal gathering of the pieces of US
    > (MET), V & A, British museum, Louvre, Hermitage, Berlin, Iran museums, etc.. in silver
    > and gold (nearly all...!), coins, sculptures, mosaics, cameos,
    > textiles, glass, etc...
    > http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/...rtlet_id=12991
    > and Thracian gold :
    > http://www.villa-kerylos.com/fr/jacquemart
    > As well as portraits 1770-1830 at the Grand Palais with MANY large
    > formats of the main english, french, german and spanish portraitists in
    > particular
    > http://www.rmn.fr/galeriesnationales...its/index.html
    > didier Meurgues a �crit :
    > > Modifications... skip the former post :
    > >
    > > 1) MUSEUMS :
    > >
    > > - The Mus�e de la chasse (hunting) et de la nature will finally
    > > re-open
    > > mid-January 2007 with a delay of 2 months on the previous date.
    > >
    > > - The architecture museum opens in totality the 30 March 2007.
    > > - The National museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre)
    > > reopens in totality the 2 April 2007.
    > > - The tapestries museum re-opens the 7 April 2007 with the exhibition :
    > > 1607-2007 four centuries of creation (PS : despite the... TERRIBLE
    > > collections' fire of 1871).
    > > - The museum of immigration should (?) open in April 2007 in the former
    > > African and oceanian arts museum. I can already... guess the ridiculous
    > > and disgusting "foreign" deliberate mediatic cover that the Quai Branly
    > > museum opening recently enjoyed...!
    > >
    > > And later, for example, according to :
    > > http://pro.parisinfo.com/rubrique.ph...d_article=234&...
    > >
    > > http://www.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_3.pdf
    > > http://de.parisinfo.com/IMG/pdf/Inaugurations_FR_4.pdf , and other
    > > websites :
    > > - Natural history museum mexican greenhouses
    > > - Henner, H�bert, Ennery (small) museums
    > > - Fashion & design city
    > > - Sport museum
    > > - Islamic departement of the Louvre, etc...
    > >
    > >
    > > A) TO (RE)OPEN :
    > > 2007 :
    > > - mid-january 2007 : Hunting and nature museum
    > > http://www.chassenature.org
    > > - 31 January 2007 : modern collection (until 1945) of the National
    > > museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) ;
    > > - 30 March 2007 (totally) : Architecture museum :
    > > http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
    > > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
    > > - 2 April 2007 : contemporary collection (from 1945) of the National
    > > museum of modern arts (Beaubourg - Pompidou centre) :
    > > www.centrepompidou.fr
    > > - April ? 2007 : History of immigration museum (Palais de la Porte
    > > Dor�e)
    > > www.histoire-immigration.fr
    > > http://www.musee-afriqueoceanie.fr
    > > - April ? 2007 : Gobelins tapestries museum (galerie des Gobelins)
    > > No special website yet :
    > > http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/a.../arts-plastiqu...
    > >
    > > http://www.monum.fr/visitez/decouvri...?lang=fr&id=77
    > > http://www.paris-pittoresque.com/monuments/32b.htm
    > >
    > >
    > > B) LATELY (RE)OPENED :
    > > - 17 April 2005 : Cernuschi museum : City of Paris asiatic arts museum
    > > : www.cernuschi.paris.fr ;
    > > - 28 September 2005 : french Cin�math�que + cinema museum (in a F.
    > > Gehry refurbished building) :
    > > www.cinemathequefrancaise.com ;
    > > - 10 December 2005 : Petit Palais : City of Paris fine arts museum :
    > > www.petit-palais.paris.fr ;
    > > - 2 February 2006 : City of Paris modern arts museum :
    > > www.mam.paris.fr ;
    > > - 16 March 2006 : Grand Palais (temporarily exhibitions) :
    > > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/Grand%...lais%20champs-...
    > >
    > > (facades cleaning nearly finished) ;
    > > - 27 April 2006 : Odeon theatre :
    > > www.theatre-odeon.fr ;
    > > - 17 May 2006 : Orangerie museum :
    > > www.musee-orangerie.fr ;
    > > - 22 May 2006 : Trocadero aquarium :
    > > http://www.cineaqua.com, then "our
    > > place";
    > > - 16 June 2006 : Zadkine museum (1st phase renovation)
    > > www.zadkine.paris.fr
    > > - 23 June 2006 : Quai Branly museum : african, amerindian and oceanian
    > > arts :
    > > http://www.quaibranly.fr ;
    > > - 1 July 2006 : Army museum - invalides (1871-1945 rooms)
    > > (Middle Ages - Louis XIII reopened since end of 2005 ; Louis XIV - 1871
    > > to reopen in 2008) ;
    > > http://www.invalides.org
    > > http://www.invalides.org/pages/athena.html
    > > - 13 September 2006 : Salle Pleyel (concerts) :
    > > www.pleyel.com ;
    > > - 15 September 2006 : Decorative arts museum :
    > > http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr
    > > - 25 October 2006 (ONLY the auditorium and architectural news gallery)
    > > : Architecture museum :
    > > http://www.archi.fr/IFA-CHAILLOT ;
    > > http://www.emoc.fr/operations/plan%2...s%20orange.htm
    > > - 22 November 2006 : National museum of the Legion of Honour (no website)
    > http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mi...PWD=4%24%2534P,
    > then search with "legion"
    > >
    > > 2) MAIN EXHIBITIONS (LISTED BY DATES OF ENDING)
    > > ON SHOW AROUND CHRISTMAS PERIOD (FROM DECEMBER 1, 2006 TO JANUARY 31,
    > > 2007) :
    > >
    > > http://fr.parisinfo.com/sortir_a_paris/rub864.html
    > > PS : I deliberately skip the photo museums exhibitions of :
    > > www.jeudepaume.org
    > > http://www.cnp-photographie.com
    > > http://www.mep-fr.org
    > >
    > > In particular, by order of importance, according to me :
    > > the 3 (not 1..! :+( ) Rembrandt (engravings + drawings) exhibitions,
    > > portaits 1770-1830,
    > > French 17th c. caravagism (peintres de la r�alit�), Hogarth, Titian,
    > > Venice and the Orient, egyptian maritime archeology (�gypte tr�sors
    > > engloutis), Rouault - Matisse, Maurice Denis, Yves Klein, Robert
    > > Rauschenberg,
    > > Afghan national museum treasures, Desiserio da Settignano, Thracia
    > > gold, Sassanide Persia, Rispal's art nouveau donation, Balenciaga,
    > > German expressionist cinema, Monet japanese prints, recent drawings
    > > acquisitions of the MNAM Centre Pompidou, Vija Celmins, humanist
    > > photography 1945-1968, Walt Disney, Herg�, Doisneau, Seuls dans
    > > l'univers? (extraterestrial life), N�andertal man, guitars, Hom�re,
    > > Arthaud, Napol�on III, etc...
    > >
    > >
    > > D�CEMBRE :
    > > 05.10.-03.12 : Rembrandt et son entourage (engravings) + Le voyage en France (dutch drawings) : Fondation Custodia
    > > 07.12-17.12 : Salon d'Automne : Grand Palais ?
    > > 23.06-17.12 : Ciwara chim�res africaines (african sculpture) : Mus�e
    > > du quai Branly
    > > 28.09-28.12 : Napol�on III & l'Europe : Mus�e de l'Arm�e
    > > 15.09-30.12 : Les perses sassanides (sassanide Persia) : Mus�e
    > > Cernuschi
    > > 14.09-31.12 : 5 milliards d'ann�es (contemporary artists) : Palais
    > > de Tokyo
    > >
    > >
    > > JANVIER :
    > > 11.10-07.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
    > > 27.10-07.01 : Karen Kilimnik : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > > 29.11-07.01 : Biom�trie : Cit� des Sciences La Villette
    > > 20.09-08.01 : Picasso in the Berggruen collection : Mus�e Picasso
    > > 20.10-08.01 : Rembrandt dessinateur : Louvre
    > > 20.10-08.01 : William Hogarth : Louvre
    > > 04.10-08.01 : Portraits publics - portraits priv�s 1770-1830 : Grand
    > > Palais
    > > 13.10-08.01 : L'Homme de N�andertal : Mus�e de l'Homme
    > > 25.10-08.01 : Acquisitions r�centes (dessins)) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > > 05.10-14.01 : Travelling guitars : Mus�e de la musique
    > > 19.10-14.01 : Rembrandt (gravures) : Petit Palais
    > > 21.10-14.01 : Collection Sylvio Perlstein : Maison Rouge
    > > XX.01 : R�ouverture : Mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature
    > > 16.09-15.01 : Il �tait une fois Walt Disney : Grand Palais
    > > 04.10-15.01 : Gravures du Seicento de la collection E. de Rothschild :
    > > Louvre
    > > 11.10-15.01 : Robert Rauschenberg : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > > 11.10-15.01 : Candida H�fer (photos) : Louvre
    > > 13.09-21.01 : Titien : Mus�e du Luxembourg
    > > 18.09-21.01 : D'un regard l'autre (occidental and non occidental
    > > reciproque sights) : Mus�e du Quai Branly
    > > 25.10-21.01 : �diter le design (design) : Mus�e des Arts d�coratifs
    > > 31.10-21.01 : Maurice Denis (+ photos intimes + 2 acquisitions de
    > > dessins) : Mus�e d'Orsay
    > > 27.10-22.01 : Desiserio da Settignano : Louvre
    > > 27.10-14.01 : Tacita Dean : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > > 06.07-28.01 : Balenciaga : Mus�e de la Mode UCAD
    > > 31.10-28.01 : La photographie humaniste 1945-1968 (Izis, Boubat,
    > > Brassa�, Doisneau, Ronis, etc...) : Biblioth�que Nationale Richelieu
    > > 21.11-28.01 : Autour de 1900 - donation Rispal d'art nouveau : Mus�e
    > > d'Orsay
    > > 05.04-29.01 : Le mouvement des images (cinema in 20th c. art) : MNAM
    > > Centre Pompidou
    > > 26.10-29.01 : Le cin�ma expressionniste allemand : Cin�math�que
    > > 14.10-31.01 : L'or des Thraces : Mus�e Jacquemat-Andr�
    > > 31.01 : R�ouverture de la collection moderne : MNAM Centre
    > > Pompidou
    > >
    > > FEBRUARY :
    > > 27.10-04.02 : Gary Hill & Tabaimo (contemporary artists) : Fondation
    > > Cartier
    > > 07.11-04.02 : Antonin Arthaud (writer) : Biblioth�que Nationale
    > > Tolbiac
    > > 05.10-05.02 : Yves Klein (most important 1960ies french artist) : MNAM
    > > Centre Pompidou
    > > 27.10-11.02 : Rouault - Matisse : MAMVP Palais de Tokyo
    > > 25.10-12.02 : Hiroshi Sugimoto : MNAM Atelier Brancusi
    > > 03.10-18.02 : Venise et l'Orient : Institut du Monde Arabe
    > > 17.11-19.02 : Henriette de Verninac de David � Delacroix : Mus�e
    > > Delacroix
    > > 20.12-19.02 : Herg� (cartoon) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > > 18.10-25.02 : �ric Desmazi�res (secondary contemporary artist) :
    > > Mus�e
    > > Carnavalet
    > > 15.11-25.02 : Les estampes japonaises de Monet (Monet japanese prints)
    > > : Mus�e Marmottan
    > > 28.11-25.02 : Le si�cle des saint-simoniens (socio-litterary movement)
    > >
    > > : Biblioth�que de l'Arsenal
    > > 19.10-27.02 : Doisneau (photo) : H�tel de Ville
    > >
    > >
    > > MARCH :
    > > 21.11-05.03 : 1934 Les peintres de la r�alit� (french 17th c.
    > > caravagism) : Mus�e de l'Orangerie
    > > 08.12-16.03 : �gypte tr�sors engloutis (egyptian maritime archeology
    > > : Alexandria ?) : Grand Palais
    > > 08.11-25.03 : La photo publicitaire en France de Man Ray � Goude :
    > > Mus�e de la Publicit�
    > > 30.03 : Ouverture totale (mus�e) : Cit� de l'Architecture
    > >
    > >
    > > APRIL :
    > > 02.04 : R�ouverture de la collection contemporaine : MNAM
    > > Centre Pompidou
    > > 07.04 : R�ouverture de la galerie des Gobelins (expo :
    > > 1607-2007 quatre si�cles de cr�ation)
    > > 06.12-30.04 : Afghanistan tr�sors retrouv�s (afghan national museum
    > > treasures) : Mus�e Guimet
    > >
    > >
    > > MAY :
    > > 21.11-26.05 : Hom�re : Biblioth�que Nationale Tolbiac
    > >
    > >
    > > JUNE :
    > > 02.04-04.06 : Arshile Gorki : MNAM Centre Pompidou (just for info,
    > > since
    > > it begins only in April)
    > > 25.10-08.06 : Vija Celmins (drawings) : MNAM Centre Pompidou
    > >
    > > JULY :
    > > 14.11-22.07 : Seuls dans l'univers? (extraterestrial life?) : Cit� des
    > > Sciences La Villette
    > >
    > > didier Meurgues

Magda

On 20 Dec 2006 12:47:24 -0800, in rec.travel.europe, "didier Meurgues"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... (copy of recent answer to Andrew Nightingale)
...
...
... There is no big fireworks in Paris for Xmas and New Eve. Only the crowd
... drinking bottles and shooting mini-fireworks on the Champs Elysees.

Not true. Next you'll say that there are no fireworks on 14 July, too...!

didier Meurgues

Magda a �crit :

    > On 20 Dec 2006 12:47:24 -0800, in rec.travel.europe, "didier Meurgues"
    > <[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
    > ... (copy of recent answer to Andrew Nightingale)
    > ...
    > ...
    > ... There is no big fireworks in Paris for Xmas and New Eve. Only the crowd
    > ... drinking bottles and shooting mini-fireworks on the Champs Elysees.
    > Not true. Next you'll say that there are no fireworks on 14 July, too...!

I dont understand !

Here :
http://www.maison-de-la-france.com/R...&EditoID=71235

they pretend that there are fireworks at the Champs de Mars (Eiffel
tower).... but I've never heard of it before and can't find a
confirmation elsewhere notably on the URL link given...
Do you know a website about it ?

They don't talk of fireworks there :
http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8282.html
http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8283.html&id_article=23674
See notably : the � grande parade �. I don't know what it worth...,
Father Christmas with his horse-drawn sleigh... at the 3rd ardt mairie
or without it at Bercy village (but with ski and sleigh slopes) or in
departement stores, the 25 m pinetree and � magic forest � under and
on the 1st level of the Eiffel tower, the big wheel of Concorde square,
the � cr�ches � of Notre Dame ?, rue des vertus 3e, 40 rue La
Fontaine 16e, etc...

Theses links give :

- Xstmas markets (places St-Sulpice, St-Germain-des-Pr�s, de la
Nation, Maurice Chevalier 20e, gare de l'Est, rue Barri�re blanche
18e, 40 rue La Fontaine 16e, etc... and farther at La D�fense,
Disneyland Paris, etc...), and shops (Maison de l'Alsace : Champs
Elys�es) http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8292.html

- outdoor ice skating (Hotel de Ville (1050 m�), Tour Montparnasse
(800 m�) and National Library - Tolbiac (300 m�)), indoor at POPB
Bercy 12e (1456 m�) open till 00:30 fr. & sat. and patinoire Pailleron
19e (800 m�)) ;
http://en.parisinfo.com/show_exhibition/rub6073.html
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Sport/Po...rtlet_id=17300

- Xstmas carrousels (man�ges) (Square du Temple - 3e, place de
l'H�tel de Ville - 4e, bordure Square St-M�dard - 5e, place de
l'Od�on - 6e, place Joffre - 7e , place de la Madeleine - 8e, place
de la Concorde - 8e, place Lino-Ventura - 9e , Square Alban-Satragne -
10e, place L�on-Blum - 11e, avenue Daumesnil - 12e, place d'Italie -
13e , angle rue Didot/rue d'Al�sia - 14e, place Raoul-Dautry - 15e,
place du Trocad�ro - 16e, place Docteur F�lix-Lobligeois - 17e,
Square Louise-Michel - 18e, place Armand-Carrel - 19e et Mairie du
20e), etc... :
http://en.parisinfo.com/show_exhibit..._action=detail
http://www.paris.fr/portail/tourisme...rtlet_id=15540

- illuminated streets : long list here :
http://en.parisinfo.com/show_exhibit..._action=detail
http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8283.html&id_article=23673

Museums and monuments open :
http://en.parisinfo.com/rub8283.html&id_article=23680

didier Meurgues

Magda

On 21 Dec 2006 09:23:58 -0800, in rec.travel.europe, "didier Meurgues"
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... > ... There is no big fireworks in Paris for Xmas and New Eve. Only the crowd
... > ... drinking bottles and shooting mini-fireworks on the Champs Elysees.
... >
... > Not true. Next you'll say that there are no fireworks on 14 July, too...!
...
... I dont understand !
...
... Here :
... http://www.maison-de-la-france.com/R...&EditoID=71235
...
... they pretend that there are fireworks at the Champs de Mars (Eiffel
... tower).... but I've never heard of it before and can't find a
... confirmation elsewhere notably on the URL link given...
... Do you know a website about it ?

No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
friend and there were fireworks!! The theme that year was "Olympics 2012", by the way...
which Paris lost to London.

Martin

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:58:19 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On 21 Dec 2006 09:23:58 -0800, in rec.travel.europe, "didier Meurgues"
    ><[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
    > ... > ... There is no big fireworks in Paris for Xmas and New Eve. Only the crowd
    > ... > ... drinking bottles and shooting mini-fireworks on the Champs Elysees.
    > ... >
    > ... > Not true. Next you'll say that there are no fireworks on 14 July, too...!
    > ...
    > ... I dont understand !
    > ...
    > ... Here :
    > ... http://www.maison-de-la-france.com/R...&EditoID=71235
    > ...
    > ... they pretend that there are fireworks at the Champs de Mars (Eiffel
    > ... tower).... but I've never heard of it before and can't find a
    > ... confirmation elsewhere notably on the URL link given...
    > ... Do you know a website about it ?
    >No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
    >friend and there were fireworks!!

Did the earth move too, Magda?

    >The theme that year was "Olympics 2012", by the way...
    >which Paris lost to London.

LOL

They probably let off all the stuff they had saved from 14 July for the
Olympics.
--

Martin

Magda

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:18:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this:

... >No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
... >friend and there were fireworks!!
...
... Did the earth move too, Magda?

It certainly did - but I didn't feel a thing! :))

... >The theme that year was "Olympics 2012", by the way...
... >which Paris lost to London.
...
... LOL
...
... They probably let off all the stuff they had saved from 14 July for the
... Olympics.

Nope, there are fireworks every year. It's just that someone has to drag me, kicking and
screaming, out of my cosy, warm flat, to go watch them (and freeze!) in the Champs
Elys�es...

Martin

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:25:41 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:18:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]> arranged
    >some electrons, so they looked like this:
    > ... >No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
    > ... >friend and there were fireworks!!
    > ...
    > ... Did the earth move too, Magda?
    >It certainly did - but I didn't feel a thing! :))

LOL better than looking at the cracks in the ceiling.

    > ... >The theme that year was "Olympics 2012", by the way...
    > ... >which Paris lost to London.
    > ...
    > ... LOL
    > ...
    > ... They probably let off all the stuff they had saved from 14 July for the
    > ... Olympics.
    >Nope, there are fireworks every year. It's just that someone has to drag me, kicking and
    >screaming, out of my cosy, warm flat, to go watch them (and freeze!) in the Champs
    >Elys�es...

You should have stood outside Mixi's open window and let the hot tropical McD
pickled gherkin scented air from his flat waft over you

It will be globally warmed rain this year.
--

Martin

Magda

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:42:40 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]> arranged
some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:25:41 +0100, Magda <[email protected]> wrote:
...
... >On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:18:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]> arranged
... >some electrons, so they looked like this:
... >
... > ... >No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
... > ... >friend and there were fireworks!!
... > ...
... > ... Did the earth move too, Magda?
... >
... >It certainly did - but I didn't feel a thing! :))
...
... LOL better than looking at the cracks in the ceiling.

20 Km/sec is something!

didier Meurgues

Magda a �crit :

    > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:18:57 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Martin <[email protected]> arranged
    > some electrons, so they looked like this:
    > ... >No, all I know is what I have *seen*! I was in the Champs Elys�es 31st Dec 2004 with a
    > ... >friend and there were fireworks!!
    > ...
    > ... Did the earth move too, Magda?
    > It certainly did - but I didn't feel a thing! :))

You can't � feel � it, but in Paris... you can � see � it turn...
    :

http://membres.lycos.fr/pantheondeparis/pendule.html
http://www.smf.asso.fr/Ressources/Phillips34.pdf
http://www.handicap.monum.fr/fr/Visi...tuels/Pantheon

That'll be an occasion to see as well the HUGE, impressive, perfumed
(lavander, tea etc... in the balls)... (quasi symetrical in fact,
despite the photos) and very poetical sculpture of the brazilian
contemporary artist Ernesto Neto at the Pantheon until December 31 (or
30 ? : check).

http://www.festival-automne.com/fr/p...rogramme_id=79
http://www.iconeparis.com/blog/2006/...u-panthon.html
http://jowebzine.com/TEMPLATES/EXPOS/neto-224.php
http://www.evene.fr/culture/agenda/e...thot-12686.php

didier Meurgues

    > ... >The theme that year was "Olympics 2012", by the way...
    > ... >which Paris lost to London.
    > ...
    > ... LOL
    > ...
    > ... They probably let off all the stuff they had saved from 14 July for the
    > ... Olympics.
    > Nope, there are fireworks every year. It's just that someone has to drag me, kicking and
    > screaming, out of my cosy, warm flat, to go watch them (and freeze!) in the Champs
    > Elys�es...

didier Meurgues

The re-opening of the museum of Hunting and nature in Paris is again
delayed (20 days) and will not open mid-January 2007 but officially and
finally February 6 2007, as confirmed by the curator below.

R�ouverture OFFICIELLE du mus�e de la chasse et de la nature le 6
f�vrier 2007

---------------------------

Monsieur,

J�ai plaisir � vous confirmer que le Mus�e de la Chasse et de la
Nature r�ouvrira ses portes le 6 f�vrier 2007.

Je vous remercie de l�attention que vous portez � notre
�tablissement.

Cordialement,

Rapha�l Abrille
Conservateur adjoint
Mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature
60, rue des Archives - 75003 Paris

-----Message d'origine-----
De : [email protected] Envoy� : jeudi 11 janvier 2007 21:28
� : [email protected]
Objet : R�ouverture mus�e

Est-il exact que le mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature r�ouvre le 6
f�vrier 2007 ?
http://www.fra.cityvox.fr/expositions-arts_paris/musee-de-la-chasse-et-de-la-nature_104100829/Profil-Lieu
:

" R�ouverture du mus�e le 6 f�vrier 2007.
Depuis le 1er janvier 2005, le mus�e de la Chasse et de la Nature �
Paris a ferm� ses portes pour r�aliser les travaux n�cessaires � la
mise en �uvre d�une nouvelle mus�ographie. La r�ouverture pr�vue
le 6 f�vrier 2007 permettra au visiteur d�emprunter un circuit de
visite �largi puisqu�il inclura les salles de l�h�tel de
Mongelas, h�tel particulier des XVIIe et XVIIIe si�cles, mitoyen de
l�h�tel de Gu�n�gaud. Cette demeure, acquise par la Fondation de
la Maison de la Chasse et de la Nature en 2002 pour son extension, fait
actuellement l�objet d�importants travaux de restauration. "

Merci

didier
Meurgues