Eight questions to understand the museum

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What do you find at the Musée de Cluny? And what do you not find there? Why and according to which criteria? Why is the Musée de Cluny situated in the heart of Paris, and what does the term 'National…

The Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny

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The Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny was built at the end of the 15th century in the heart of the Latin Quarter. It was the Parisian residence of the powerful Abbots of Cluny (Burgundy), and is located in the…

The Gallo-Roman baths of Lutetia

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A monumental room, the "frigidarium", is the only remaining structure of the Gallo-Roman baths of Lutetia. It is evidence of the quality of this vast complex, built at the turn of the 1st and 2nd…

A museum for tomorrow

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One of the oldest museums in Paris, the National Museum of the Middle Ages is also looking to the future. An extensive modernisation project, carried out between 2015 and 2022, redesigned the visitor…