Musee de Cluny
Displayed in a palatial 14th-century Latin Quarter residence, whose foundation rests on the ruins of a Roman bath, the Cluny’s collection represents a summation of medieval Paris. Among its 15th-century tapestries, the Lady and the Unicorn series is particularly splendid, and the fragments of statutes that once adorned the façade of Notre Dame are surprisingly expressive. The museum’s meandering halls also hold paintings, ecclesiastical vestments, reliquaries, and stained-glass windows. The seventh-century Visigoth gold crown studded with precious stones may be Paris’s Least-known treasures. 6 Place Paul-Painleve; 33-1/43-25-62-00.
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