Wednesday, May 18, 2011

In the Louvre

In art galleries Bill and I spend as much time looking at the other people in the gallery as at the art.

I love this couple taking a break from looking at masterpieces to review their own photographs.
The Louvre is a killer museum. Even experienced visitors, like Bill and I, can wander for hours looking for what we want to see. We feel for these people, scrutinizing their maps.

5 comments:

  1. lovely point of view!!! Is your first visit at the museum? I like yours warm and sensitive photographs, looking these I can feel what happen with the visitors in that great museum (oh **** my english!!!)

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  2. Your English if fine! We have been to the Louvre many times and it is so big that it is always difficult and tiring. Great art, though!

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  3. I heart the Louvre. It is not really possible to go enough times, is it?
    Perhaps just drop in for short visits if you have a museum card one week. That can be less overwhelming than one long day.
    I also liked the evening hours - different crowd of visitors.
    There used to be a ticket machine at the north end of the food court gallery (is that Passage RIchelieu?). That was a good way to skip the line at the Pyramid.

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  4. I love your museum card idea -- learn to find your favourite bits, so you can slip in for a quick hit, or maybe wander for a half hour open to discoveries. Bill and I skipped the line-up in the hot sun --ugh!) at the pyramid by entering at the Carousel. I know there's another spot where you can enter with a pass. Is it the Passage Richelieu? I'll have to ask Bill tomorrow -- It's a very late 11:30 p.m. here. Always great to hear from you, Lisa!

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  5. Hi Lisa
    The other alternative entrance is at the Porte des Lions.
    cheers, Bill

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