Entirely reorganized rooms, resplendent facades and restored collections: a transfigured Carnavalet Museum is now reopening its doors.
Four years of work and 58 million euros were necessary to renovate this museum dedicated to the history of Paris - one of the oldest in the capital since it welcomed its first visitor in 1880.
We now enter by 23, rue de Sévigné, the original entrance to the old mansion.
In the lobby, a series of signs extolling the merits of the Auberge du Bœuf Normand, the Charrue d'Or and many other businesses of yesteryear have been displayed.
Beautiful, intriguing, sometimes funny, they open a 3800 m2 tour, full of twists and turns and charm.
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If the old scenography tugged towards the cabinet of curiosities and offered a "dive" in the objects, the new one, imagined by Nathalie Crinière, wants to be more "fluid" - even if 3,800 works are presented.
Two serpentine staircases, both visible
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