Paris: the Cluny museum, sublimated after seven years of work, dusts off the Middle Ages

In complete darkness, hands grope and minds grow impatient.

During a private visit to the Cluny museum, the curator, Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot, barely had time to find the light switch in room 20 before a smartphone light came on, then a second.

Under the light beams of the 21st century, the face of “The Lady with the Unicorn” is revealed, the world-famous heroine of six eponymous tapestries woven around 1500.

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