The best museums France

The Louis Vuitton Foundation, created on the initiative of Bernard Arnaud, CEO of LVMH, was designed by the architect Frank Gehry. This great glass vessel with its curved lines has found its place among the strong architectural gestures of Paris. In the middle of this green setting, this artistic temple rises elegantly. The collections and temporary exhibitions highlight all forms of contemporary art. The foundation houses eleven exhibition rooms, a concert hall, a restaurant, a bookstore, and three terraces with unique views of Paris.

Located in the Saint-Pierre district, the historic heart of Calais lace, the Cité de la dentelle et de la mode has been fitted out in an authentic factory, typical of the 1870s. The collections are divided into six galleries where the know-how and techniques, the economic and social history, the uses but also the most contemporary aspects of lace (fashion, design, applied arts...) are evoked. All the manufacturing secrets are revealed to the visitor.

The favourite spot of joggers and lovers of family or a romantic walks! This former quarry, now Stang-Alar valley, is a famous park and encloses the Brest botanical conservatory, which was the first institution in the world, in the 80's, dedicated to the protection of plant species. Almost 20 hecters of grenery, which gives visitors a bucolic journey in the edge of the city. Walk by various streams, some in which many species of seabirds nest. In addition to the presence of various colonies of duck and moorhens, children enjoy picnics and playgrounds! As for basic fare fans, check your competence in the three courts of 850, 1350 and 2,000m offered by the site.

The House of Grenadière is located in the heart of the village and opposite the church, perched on a granite spur, at 860 m above sea level, 1 km from the A 89/A 72 exit. The museum has three levels. The first allows to see the work of the embroiderers through a film retraçant their history, film composed of testimonies of embroiderers referring to their feelings in relation to the trade as well as of bosses who explain the economic organisation of the trade. The second level is devoted to the work of the embroiderers as well as all the ancient and contemporary creations of the embroidery into the gold wire. And the third floor offers a personal initiation. The technique is revealed during the meeting with the embroiderer for a demonstration and a detailed explanation. To complete the discovery of gold embroidery, small and large make their personal initiation and produce a small embroidery. Don't leave without a tour at the shop.

Here is a fascinating visit! Alexandra David-Neel was the first European woman to enter the forbidden city of Lhasa in Tibet in 1924. Anarchist, feminist and journalist, born in Paris in 1868, she left her mark on the very masculine world of adventure and exploration. She settled in Digne in 1928 in her house Samten Dzong or "residence of reflection" where she wrote her works in her Tibetan room. A villa-museum is incredibly rich!

Don't hesitate to ride your bike (or climb in your car) on a Saturday, to take six small kilometers towards Thomery (via Saint-Mammès Submarine village that is really worth a stop), and visit the castle of By and the atelier of Rosa Happiness. A realistic, animal-friendly painter, his international success and slant him by the court of Napoleon III allowed him to buy this beautiful castle of the th century when she decided to leave her Parisian workshop too run, to "go to the birds". Once in his land, she was a firm and zoo, whose animals were used as models for her compositions. An exciting visit and an opportunity to discover the fanciful life of this short-haired Amazon, which smoked Havana, to whom Buffalo Bill offered a Sioux ornament, and who had to ask the Prefecture every six months to dress in man!

Classified as a historic monument, set up, since 1972, within a hotel-Dieu of the eighteenth century and in the heart of the park bordering La Vire, the Municipal Museum, dedicated to fine arts (Charles Léandre's workshop background), the decorative arts (Paul Huet's romantic Normandy) and the popular traditions of the Viennese Bocage virois subject to a few standards and accessibility. Especially with the installation of a lift and the renovation of the permanent path. The collections themselves, rich in costumes, furniture and a set of hedges, from Romulus to Guy Degrenne, will be valued in their presentation and by the scenography. The Chapel space will be devoted to Reconstruction. So patience: you who pass through Vire, there are, in the meantime, many other things to see, to live, to discover and… to taste! Better: The gardens, from where you can admire the facades of the Hotel-Dieu remain accessible during the work. Fans will follow their evolution on the museum blog.