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With our trained and licensed
multi-lingual guides, your guests will glide through French
museums and blockbuster art shows without getting exhausted
or bored. Some of our most popular tours include the “Louvre
Gourmand” and “The Naughty Louvre”, as well as “The Evolution
of Women in 19th Century Painting.” The programs can be
adapted for both day and evening events and are accessible
to the physically disabled.
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Highlights and Secrets of the Louvre: from the Da Vinci Code to the Crown Jewels
With our guides you will discover the history of
this 800-year-old palace, starting in the Medieval
wing and going through the late 20th century wings
designed by the American architect Io Ming Pei.
You will learn the stories behind its most famous
treasures, whether it's the Mona Lisa, the Winged
Victory or the Venus de Milo. We can also arrange
for evening tours and private receptions in the
world's most celebrated museum.
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Artistic Paris at the Musée d'Orsay, Musée
Rodin and the Marmottan
Museum
If you love Impressionist and post-Impressionist
art and sculpture, we also offer private
tours of the Orsay Museum as well as to
the Marmottan, which has the largest collection
of paintings by Claude Monet. Renoir, Cézanne,
Van Gogh, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. These
are just some of the artists that you will
visit on the tour, learning as you go the
historical context during which these paintings
and sculptures were made. We can also arrange
evening tours and private receptions in
these stunning museums.
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Montmartre:
Home to Revolutions in Art and History
With our expert guide, you will discover
the "wedding cake" church of
the Sacré Coeur, newly cleaned and
refurbished, with some of the most stunning
religious mosaics in the world. After you
learn to pick out the monuments of Paris
from the base of the church, you will head
to the Place du Tertre, famed for its outdoor
artists, the only extant vineyard in Montmartre
next to the Lapin Agile and the Bateau
Lavoir, where Cubism was invented by Picasso
and Braque.
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Artisans of Timeless Beauty
With our expert guides, you will visit
ateliers specializing in French decorative
arts including the Christofle, the
Hermès custom-order workrooms,
as well as the Gobelins Tapestry
Works. With smaller groups you will
be able to visit the ateliers of
Lesage—embroiderers to Chanel and
Dior couture—as well as watch a demonstration
of the oldest maker of tassles and
passementerie in Paris.
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Artisans of Timeless Beauty
If you want to get away from hordes of tourists, you can now visit the
Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Picasso Museum and even the
Orangerie at select nights of the week. EVENTS & COMPANY will prepay
your tickets, include them in your welcome pack at your hotel and
arrange for a private guided tour you will never forget. In addition,
we can organize an early evening walking tour that starts at 5 pm and
ends at 8 pm, just before dinner, giving you a chance to see Paris in a
whole new way, with greater ease and calm.
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Little-Known Museums Tour In and Around Paris
Let author/guide Rachel Kaplan take you on a fascinating expedition through the
house-museums and collections that are truly off the beaten track, from the
smallest museum in the world that fits only eight visitors at a single time, to
the homes of such famous artists as Maurice Ravel, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave
Moreau and Ossip Zadkine or the delightful Baccarat Museum.
For those seeking
something more exotic, then come along to the Museum of the Institute of the
Arab World, the Guimet Asian Museum or the Museum of Fashion and Textiles. On
these tours the rich past in these museums comes alive, so that you are able to
partake in the secret, often surprising history and culture of France.
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Exotic Paris: The Fastest Trip to Asia and Africa
You don't have to go on safari to discover several stunning museums devoted to
African and early art from other peoples: our favorites are the sumptuous new
Quai Branly Museum designed by Jean Nouvel next to the Eiffel Tower and the more
intimate Dapper Museum in the 16th arrondissement. For those visitors who wish
to contemplate Oriental art in tranquillity, there are two museums not to be
missed: the Cernuschi Museum in the Parc Monceau, which boasts the largest
bronze Buddha in Western Europe, and the Guimet Museum, which offers a stunning
range of sculptures, brush paintings, and porcelains from China, Japan, Korea,
India and Tibet.
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The programs described here
can be done in private vehicles including air-conditioned
minivans and buses holding up to 45 people, as well as
using the Paris metro system, when it's a budget tour.
In every case, they can be adapted to your touring schedule.
We offer 2.5 hour, half-day and full-day programs.
All admissions to these properties are pre-purchased by
EVENTS & COMPANY ,
and each guest receives a detailed program before going
on the tour.
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