The gardens of the Rodin museum were gorgeous. I really wanted to see The Thinker and it was perfect!

The rest of the gardens held statues depicting a time of the Hundred Years War. People were starving and Rodin captured the sadness and despair in the faces he sculpted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais

The rest of the museum had many of the plaster casts used to create the bronze statues. I especially liked seeing the feet and hands. The detail was incredible as was the size.

The Musee Picasso was another fairly small museum which I like. A lot of nude women in his paintings. And a fair amount of anger and frustration in his art. His work ran all over the place from almost normal to frantic. He experimented with all types of materials as was evidenced throughout the museum. He was most definitely talented.

The Musee Army was interesting from a war perspective over time. If you’re a fan of Napoleon there was a lot to see and read about.

The Pantheon was a place I kept hearing about but had never seen it. It sits proudly on a hilltop and is beautiful inside and out. There was a beautiful painting of Joan of Arc on the main floor. One of the most interesting features of the Pantheon was the crypt below ground. Marie Curie and her husband are entombed there as well as many other famous politicians

When in Paris there are so many museums to choose from. Each one has something special. Some will be favorites and others not so much. I like the idea of cramming in 2 days of museums. We could have done more if we used the Metro in between museums but we walked a fair amount instead. We enjoyed the surrounding neighborhoods as well as the museums as often it was in a part of the city we had not yet traveled.

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