Wednesday is a light day, we plan only on visiting Pompidou Centre and then a cooking class at the Cordon Bleu later in the afternoon.
The centre is only a few minutes walk from the apartment and houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne, the largest modern art museum in Europe as well as a huge public library and a music and acoustic research centre.
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| Pompidou Centre |
While english speakers call it the Pompidou Centre and french speakers call it the Centre Georges Pompidou or Beauborg (for the neighborhood), we call it the hamster house due to its many tubes and glass walls.
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| Place Pompidou Centre (seen from inside pompidou centre) |
Today the museum had a special exhibit by Women artists which was quite interesting. The kinetic exhibits were also fascinating. The outdoor sculpture terrace on the 5th level was not open, which was a shame as we could clearly see Paris and especially the Basilique on the hill through the dirty windows in the museum. The museum had a kinetic artwork by an artist Loretta recognized from earlier last week at the Antiquaries art show, it may have been Victor Vasarely.
It had different sections for different periods, that is, historic modern era (1905-1945) and modern era.
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| Yves Klein's patented blue |
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| View of Sacré-Cœur Basilica from Pompidou |
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| Walk along Seine |
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