To push the door of the Museum of Cluny, it is first to enter an exceptional place that gathers(combines) at the heart of Paris two prestigious buildings: the Gallo-Roman thermal baths of Lutetia, built at the end of Ier century, and the hotel of the abbots de Cluny built at the end of the XVth century. It is also to reach major set(group) of works existent from a large geographical area extending from the Mediterranean Basin to Scandinavia and in the British islands. Coloured, diverse, sometimes strange, collections include paintings(paints), sculptures, tapestries, stained-glass windows, rooms(parts,plays) of silver or of ivory and offer a rich panorama of the history of art." The Lady in the unicorn", tapestry in romantic story thousand celebrated time, the sculptures of the cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Paris, the stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle or else "Rose and the Golden altar of Basel" are some of heads - of work who are kept(preserved) there. Very numerous events and activities gives rhythm to the life of the Museum of Cluny: temporary exhibitions(exposures), conferences, readings, concerts of medieval music, visits and workshops(studios)... These meetings are a chance to open the museum to a public always more important, so that each finds in Middle Ages the origins of contemporary world. Since its creation by the State in 1844, the establishment pursues moreover an active politics(policy) of acquisition and of modernisation of its spaces.
Access
M10 Cluny-La Sorbonne, Odéon M4 Saint-Michel, Odéon RER B Cluny-La Sorbonne RER C Saint-Michel Bus 21, 27, 38, 63, 85, 86, 87 Vélib': 20 rue du Sommerard, 5 rue de La Sorbonne, 42 rue Saint-Jacques, 6 rue Pierre-Sarrazin
Website
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr
Phone
01 53 73 78 16
Other
https://www.twitter.com/museecluny

Address
28 rue Du Sommerard 75005 Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France