musee de l'orangerie

Today Greg and I went to Musee de l'Orangerie, with so many museums in Paris I think this one is my favorite thus far. 

You enter this oval shaped room with panoramic views of Monet's les nympheas, his famous water lilies. 

Seeing it in real life is really breath taking. 

So elegant and fluid.

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Another great aspect to this museum is that they ask you to be very quiet in the oval space, view the paintings in silence, reflect and take it all in. 

Simply wonderful.

The murals are so much larger than I had originally anticipated.

Click here to view it virtually. 

The provide benches in the middle of the space.

This is the rest of the museum:

PSYCH! This is a miniature model:

Did I fool you?!

I like this:

This is really what the rest of the museum looks like:

Here are some paintings that strike my fancy:

Greg appreciating art:

This reminds me of this place in Prague:

The French sure do know their art museums. 

museum nationale de histoire naturelle

Museum Nationale de Histoire Naturelle, aka Natural History Museum. Sarah, this post is dedicated to you and your love of anthropology....

Greg, with a wholly mammoth and.....McDonald's in the background. 

bones galore!!!!!!

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whale bones!!!!!!!

animal bones!!!!!!!

creature bones!!!!!!!

turtle bones!!!!!!!

BONES BONES BONES!!!!!!!

a monkey ear!!!!!!! gross and super neat!!!

super gross and super neat!

brains and spines....

!!!!!!!

yes yes yes

more more more

so cool.

this place was HUGE and several stories too...

everything was well preserved and well organized.

fascinating.

well, okay.

an Asian elephant!!!!! (KHORRRRN)

NARWHAL, I WILL.

HUMAN BABIES. The most creepy and the most cool. 

BONES and GREG!!!!

frog bones!!!!!!!!!

dinosaur bones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DINOSAURS!!!!!!!!!

Wooly Mammoth!!!!!!!!!!!

bones bones bones

fantastic

No way, Lucy's bones. THE LUCY. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT.

this is blowing my miiiiiiiind, SARAH WHERE ARE YOU.

Interesting.

mega interesting. 

incredible. 

oh hey! me and some bones!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!! !!! !!!!!!

T REX EVERYONE!

Ostriches!!!!! My favorite animal!!!

more dinos, all hanging out together. 

baby kangaroos!!! so liiiiiittle!

lots of skulls - human, gorilla, ape, you name it. 

our ancestry!

oh hey there little guy.

!!!!!!!!!!!! SARAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NICE.

My cousin probably. We both have really long arms. Perhaps I am the missing link.......

Natural History Museum of Paris, I love you.