The story box, a family visit

Name: The story box, a family visit
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la vie romantique

"Once upon a time..." When these words resound, time stops… words and tales escape from the story box. Our storyteller is inspired by the objects spotted during the visit and as a...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

"Once upon a time..." When these words resonate, time stops… words and tales escape from the box of stories. Our storyteller is inspired by the objects spotted during the visit and as if by magic jewelry, portraits, boxes come to life.

About the location

Musée de la vie romantique

Hôtel Scheffer-Renan - 16 rue Chaptal 75009 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Built in 1830 at the heart of the named(appointed) district New Athens ", this house, house of the painter Ary Scheffer is since 1983 a museum of the Ville de Paris devoted to the evocation of the artistic and literary life of the first half of the XIXth century. A discreet path laid with cobblestones lined with hundred-year-old locust trees leads(drives) to an Italian-style detached house(flag) with its two workshops(studios), its court(yard) laid with cobblestones and the garden full of flowers of pink(roses) and of lilacs which kept(preserved) the romantic flavour(perfume) of former days. Paintings(Paints), sculptures and objects of the painter Ary Scheffer and his contemporaries contribute to evoke the atmosphere of lounges(shows) under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. Memories(Souvenirs) and memorabilia of George Sand - furniture(pieces of furniture), paintings(boards), works of art and jewels(jewellery) having belonged to the novelist, symbol of the modern woman - are also presented.