February 4: Musée de Montmartre

You know how in ‘80’s movies, there’s always the girl who starts the movie unpopular but, thanks to new clothes/ makeover/ taking off her glasses, ends up as a hot babe? The Montmartre Museum is like that, pre-makeover. It’s got a lot of potential – the original sign from the Lapin Agile, Toulouse-Lautrec posters, a zinc bar hidden from the Germans’ metal-collecting campaigns – but it needs a combination of Molly Ringwald and Thomas Hoving to clean up the flaking paint, throw away the cheesy/creepy mannequins, and whip up some better signage with a bit more context and a lot fewer English errors. As it is, it’s not worth the 8 euro unless you are really, really obsessed with la vie boheme (in which case you’re probably backpacking around Europe and wouldn’t pay 8 euro for anything).