Paris

Paris

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Dali Museum

We took time on Saturday to go to the Dali museum.  Dali spent a lot of time in Paris and his museum there is a collection of a number of great works of his.

Before heading there, we wanted to see where the Moulin Rouge was, which isn't too far from the museum.  It was a cool building, but the surrounding area was... interesting. 


Just across the street is a giant vent that the little guy decided he would jump up on.  He's huge!


From there, we started walking up toward the top of Montmartre.  The top of the hill used to be covered in windmills, but there are only a few left.  Here is one looking up the street we were on. 


And as we kept going, we found another one atop the Moulin de la Galette. 


And just a little further up, we found a man pushing his bike while carrying a glass bowl of fish on his head.


Eventually, we got to the Dali Museum.  It was a great museum, featuring his drawings, sculptures, glassworks, and paintings.  They were arranged in groupings according to various series that he did, including The Bible, Alice in Wonderland, and various others.  His work was amazing.






The kids enjoyed seeing some of the craziness that Dali is known for.  We headed back down the hill and had some ice cream.

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