Louvre, Paris
Lined up at 9am and was in and bag and coat checked (separately?) by 9:30. spent the next four hours not seeing half of the place, some amazing things, crazy to see the throng around La Jaconda (Mona Lisa). 15-18th Century Sculptures, the July Monarchy and Cour Cluny, NapoleonIII Apartments (wow!), Middle Ages, Renaissance and 17th Century, then through the Large Format French Paintings to La Jaconde. Important Italian Art on other side of the wall noone stopped to look at. 16-19th Century Italian Sculpture, Eutrucan and Roman Antiquities, Greek Antiquities, Pharaonin Egypt Thematic Circuit, Levant Antique Iran, Mesopotamia, Medieval Louvre (moat etc), Arts of Islam. Covered 1/2 Lower Ground Floor, all the Ground Floor, 3/4 1st Floor, none of the 2nd floor. Lots of Museums and Monuments are free on the first Sunday of the month so you can imagine it's pretty packed, that's why I started early, almost everyone headed straight up to the Mona Lisa so I went in the other direction (packed now or packed later?) so saw the french sculptures with only a few others around then worked my way over. The place is so huge, very easy to get lost, if you wanted to see everything (and not just walk throught the room but read the translations of information) it would take at least a week, they have so much info it's great but after 4 hours I stopped taking anything in and realised I was looking at the floor! Headed over to the Musee Moyen Age also known as the Musee du Cluny middle ages museum with famous tapestry "Lady and the Unicorn", some sculptures from Notre Dame Paris as well.
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