VirtuosoLife - January/February 2008 - (Page 72) ART AND CULTURE Beyond the Louvre Taking in the latest additions to the Paris art scene. aris is a year-round city, and for museum lovers, winter may be the ideal season. The chilly gray days make the boulevards and outdoor cafés less enticing, prompting travelers to explore treasures they skipped in the spring. Parisian museums cover every Cathedral collage: Center pillar from a Strasbourg cathedral, statues from Reims, and more at La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine. 72 V I RT U O S O L I F E Carole lenfant P BY MICHAEL WEBB interest, from aviation (at the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in the hangars of Le Bourget) to zoology (in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle). Vintage models of fortified cities all over France are scattered throughout the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, housed within the Hôtel des Invalides, and nineteenth-century machines replace the figures of saints in a medieval church at the Musée des Arts et Métiers. But the arts reign supreme in Paris. Make these exciting new
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