Museums

Using the Paris Pass over the next three days we visited or tried to visit some of the famous museums of Paris.  We intentionally skipped the Louvre as we had visited it many years ago on a brief trip to Paris.  It is so large and crowded, and takes a lot of time to really see.  Instead, we targeted the Orsay, the Pompidou, the Rodin, the Dali, and the Picasso museums.  The Dali was closed for renovations, so that was a disappointment, but the rest were fun and interesting. In the Orsay we also also had lunch in its beautiful and ornate dining room, and there are some nice photos of that in the Orsay album and below.

                 

The Pompidou was really an interesting building with it modern theme and unusual exterior.  It also offered nice views of the city from its top floor.  We captured some nice views of Sacre Coure and the Eiffel Tower from there.

                  

       
The museums were certainly interesting but also exhausting when you try to see so many in such a compressed time period.  We were trying to maximize our Paris Pass opportunities, but that also meant we were pushing ourselves to see it all.  It would be fun to have more time to explore them more slowly and over a longer period of time.