Musee en Herbe

No, it has nothing to do with herbs.  I know.  I was disappointed, too.  This was a museum designed for kids that Morgan had read about and really wanted to go see, so we did.  Like much of our experience in Paris, it was not what we had expected. 

It was more or less in sort of an alleyway.  

They were having a special collection of work by Keith Haring.  He was an artist in the 80s that started as a graffiti artist.  If you've seen this image, you've seen his stuff:

The entrance was fun, unfortunately you aren't allowed to take pictures.  I quickly took this one before anyone found us.

We had fun, but honestly there wasn't a lot to the museum.  There was some history and a number of pieces of his work, but after about 45 minutes we were done... and that was stretching it.  The good thing is that it inspired the kids to want to do more painting, so we went to the store a couple of days later and got paints, brushes, rollers, paper....  and we got artsy.

After we left Musee en Herbe, we did a little walking around and some shopping.  We had to buy a cheese slicer and grater.  It's Paris and we survived for 3 months without either.  Anyway...

We wandered into an area that had another great kids' park.  I'm going to do another post just on the parks here, but for now this one was a lot of fun.  In a huge open area, there is a giant hand and head for the kids to climb.

There is also a fenced area with a lot of play equipment, including a rope walk.  How's this for a park backdrop?

They had fun climbing, running, and just being kids... including rolling down an astroturf covered hill.  I think they were ring leaders as other kids started rolling, too. 

As has happened many times, the day wasn't what we had planned but we had a very good day!