June 2026
The Musee Magie
In keeping with my desire to see small museums in Paris this year, I visited the Musée Magie, or Museum of Magic.
The Museum of Magic and Curiosity is a private collection of optical illusions, fun house mirrors, wind-up toys, and historical magic artifacts.
I had the most fun pushing the buttons on their terrific collection of over 100 19th- and 20th-century automatons.
Push the button and voila.
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Each ticket includes a magic show, oh, and the museum just happens to be beneath the Marquis de Sade’s house.
The Cluny
The history of Cluny is long and complicated; the building is stunning. The Cluny houses one of the largest collections of art from the Middle Ages. However, what it is most famous for, and what most people come to see, is the iconic series of six 15th-century tapestries known as The Lady and the Unicorn.
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This is just one of the tapestries. I took this picture from Wikipedia, as the room is simply not conducive to taking pictures.