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The doll museum in Paris
Aug. 19th, 2011 12:15 pmI suggested we go to le Musée de la Poupée because we were meeting up with my brother-in-law, his wife and their 4-year-old daughter that day, and it seemed like something that would interest all the kids.
Little did I know that I would LOVE it as much as I did. I am strongly recommending it if you go to Paris with children and even if you are on your own.
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And then there was the temporary exhibition, and I wish I could find words to express the wonder we felt when we saw this. We knew it would be about Ken and Barbie through the ages, but I expected something FAO Schwartz-like, with traditional Barbie and Ken dolls in their traditional Barbie and Ken outfits.
We were entirely wrong. What we saw was the work of Claude Brabant, a very talented lady who decided to take famous paintings and re-create them by re-making the clothes herself and using Barbie and Ken as the main protagonists.
( Barbie and Ken as Cleopatra and Caesar, St Louis and Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart and Catherine de Médicis and more... )
Little did I know that I would LOVE it as much as I did. I am strongly recommending it if you go to Paris with children and even if you are on your own.
( pictures behind the cut )
And then there was the temporary exhibition, and I wish I could find words to express the wonder we felt when we saw this. We knew it would be about Ken and Barbie through the ages, but I expected something FAO Schwartz-like, with traditional Barbie and Ken dolls in their traditional Barbie and Ken outfits.
We were entirely wrong. What we saw was the work of Claude Brabant, a very talented lady who decided to take famous paintings and re-create them by re-making the clothes herself and using Barbie and Ken as the main protagonists.
( Barbie and Ken as Cleopatra and Caesar, St Louis and Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart and Catherine de Médicis and more... )
