History Museum sights in Paris
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Musée National du Moyen Âge
The National Museum of the Middle Ages is housed in two structures: the frigidarium (cooling room) and other remains of Gallo-Roman baths dating from around AD 200, and the late-15th-century Hôtel de Cluny, considered the finest example of medieval civil architecture in Paris.
The spectacular displays at the museum include statuary, illuminated manuscripts, weapons, furnishings, and objets d’art made of gold, ivory and enamel. But nothing compares with La Dame à la Licorne (The Lady with the Unicorn), a sublime series of late-15th-century tapestries from the southern Netherlands now hung in circular room 13 on the 1st floor. Five of them are devoted to the senses, whi…
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Musée Carnavalet
This museum charts the history of Paris from the Gallo-Roman period to modern times. Some of the nation’s most important documents, paintings and objects from the French Revolution are here (rooms 101 to 113), as is Fouquet’s magnificent art nouveau jewellery shop from the rue Royale (room 142) and Marcel Proust’s cork-lined bedroom from his apartment on bd Haussmann (room 147), in which he wrote most of the 7350-page À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time).
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