Who still believes that the Middle Ages was a dark period?
The new course of the National Museum of Cluny, all in light and refinement, sweeps away this reputation for medieval obscurantism and confirms the luminous side of this age.
Following eleven years of work, organized in stages, it is presented renovated, reorganized and, to be honest, metamorphosed.
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The new visit runs until the dawn of the Renaissance, approaching a thousand years of art, sculptures, objects, statues or stained glass, in 21 rooms.
Each of them has its domain, its key works around which one can often turn and, always, approach closely.
1600 exhibits
Exit the museography dating from the 1950s made up of odds and ends, which presented the collections by major trades and major techniques.
Noting that visitors, unless well versed in ancient history, struggled…
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