In the beginning of my blogging I made a post about Parc Monceau, one of the biggest, greenest and most beautiful gardens in Paris, surrounded by a fence and some fantastic golden gates - and quite near to where I live. Around the park you will find a very fashionable area, quite different from the much more modest Batignolles area, some ten minutes walk away, where you would find my flat. 
I have already made a few posts about things you can find here (see map above). In a courtyard I found some rests of the destroyed Tuileries castle, there is a Chinese styled (C.T. Loo) gallery and also a Lavirotte building.
There is also an extremely nice museum, specialized in Asian - particularly Chinese - art, Musée Cernuschi, established in an ancient mansion house – “hôtel particuler”. In this museum (free of charge) you are not allowed to take any photos, but I would recommend a visit; already the interior of the building is beautiful. (The greatest museum for Asian art in Paris, bigger and more complete, is however the Guimet museum (16th arrdt.))What I especially wanted to show today is another museum, actually a mansion house, left as it was in the 30’s, when it was bequeathed by a rich banker, Moïse de Camondo, to the institution “Arts Décoratifs” in honor of his son, Nissim de Camondo who gave the name to the museum. Nissim was killed in an aerial fight during WW I. The rest of the family later disappeared in nazi camps.
What is particularly interesting with this building, built in 1911 with the modern facilities of those days, is that you get the impression that it is left as it was when the family moved out. Furniture and very rich art collections are still there, but you can also visit the kitchen, bathrooms...
I wish you all a nice weekend! I have again blogging visitors around and may be less active in looking on your blogs, commenting etc. during a couple of days...
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