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| Street view |
It was raining all night last night and into the morning but by about 10:30 it had stopped and was drying out. It has not gotten cold as yet but the humidity in conjunction with some cooling makes it feel colder. In any event our plan to visit the renovated Rodin Museum fell through when we checked and it turned out to have set back the reopening to November 4th. So we punted and decided to try and visit another museum that has been on our radar since before we left last February.
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| The view from the rear |
Specifically it's the Fondation Jerome Seydoux-Pathe and it is associated with what used to be one of the major players in presentation of film news, Pathe Cinema. What particularly caught our attention was that the foundation managed to build an entirely new and modern building within the space of an interior courtyard of a historic Hausmann style building. In some of the architectural community it is even more impressive than the Gehry building built for the Fondation Louis Vuitton in the Bois de Boulogne. Its distinguishing characteristic is that it is not immediately obvious from the street elevation, so that the original feel of the neighborhood is maintained.
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| Scale Model |
The objects that they have on display is somewhat limited but because the foundation is more geared towards the research and education related to moving pictures and film, so their museum is almost a byproduct. But they do have almost 2 floors of research library and a staff of support people. Also each Wednesday afternoon they screen films for children, adults not admitted unless accompanied by a child. No matter, we went in and were able to see their holdings, a room dedicated to what must have been close to 100 old movie cameras and projectors dating from the late 1800's up to perhaps the 1970's, mainly 35mm format. They also had original lithographs for Pathe movies made from the 1910's up to around the end of WW I.
After our visit we walked a couple blocks and caught a bus back to our apartment. Deb made us a delicious meal for dinner and then a quiet evening.
The objects that they have on display is somewhat limited but because the foundation is more geared towards the research and education related to moving pictures and film, so their museum is almost a byproduct. But they do have almost 2 floors of research library and a staff of support people. Also each Wednesday afternoon they screen films for children, adults not admitted unless accompanied by a child. No matter, we went in and were able to see their holdings, a room dedicated to what must have been close to 100 old movie cameras and projectors dating from the late 1800's up to perhaps the 1970's, mainly 35mm format. They also had original lithographs for Pathe movies made from the 1910's up to around the end of WW I. 
After our visit we walked a couple blocks and caught a bus back to our apartment. Deb made us a delicious meal for dinner and then a quiet evening.
Oooohh. The building in a building is pretty cool!
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