Tuesday, April 13, 2010

April 11: Musée de La Vie Romantique (Museum of the Romantic Life)

A Museum of the Romantic Life? That must encompass so much, I thought. The Romantics were painters, musicians, poets, dancers, party-goers, diplomats – and it was a sweeping, pan-European movement. How would you even start when planning a museum?

Well, if you follow the example of this museum, you take the house of a crappy fashionable portrait-painter from the Romantic era, add some random crap that used to belong to Georges Sand, and voila! by calling it the Museum of the Romantic Life you assure that some people will be fool enough to visit your craptastic collection.