musée du louvre

sunny sunday


océane is familiar with louvre museum only becoz we frequent at carrousel du louvre. however, she's never been inside the museum until today.

now that she's six years old perhaps, she'll be able to understand/appreciate "arts" even for a little. i tried to select only few areas to bring her.

we entered through Porte des Lions.

then to the "arts of africa, asia, oceania and the americas" on the ground floor. she was not interested with them:-)

in the halls of spanish and italian paintings.. she got interested even with some of the sculptures (greek and roman antiquities).

"mama, it's cool here!"

"mama, look! it's like a trophy."

of course, i wanted her to see leonardo da vinci's mona lisa.

inside the viewing room of mona lisa, i was very surprised that taking picture of the painting is now allowed.

i've been in musée du louvre several times and picture taking of the mona lisa has never been allowed. this is the picture i was able to take:

leonardo da vinci painted this small portrait of a florentine noblewoman, known as la gioconda, in about 1504

océane likes this "very colourful" painting.

some sculptures and océane's innocent comments. seeing arts from a child's perspective is different. she even tried to copy some sculptures. océane chose the following sculptures:

the dying slave. michelangelo sculpted this work between 1513 and 1520 as part of a group of statues for the base of the tomb of pope julius II in rome.

"mama, they are not happy."

psyche and cupid (antonio canova)

"mama, they are naked."

"mama, she's sleeping."

océane was happy to found these flowers and butterfly.

aphrodite, known as vénus de milo. found in 1820 on the island of milo in greece. it was made in the hellenistic age at the end of the 2nd century b.c.

"mama, please look at me!"

the glass pyramid was designed by 1 m pei was opened in 1989. currently, it is the popular new main entrance.




it has been a good day and adventure. océane remembers mona lisa and she even chose to buy a ballpen and postcard with mona lisa. it's really good to expose a child with her own culture; to make her see the different arts.


a short visit in a museum was worth a try. océane wasn't tired. she didn't hate the experience and she was even talking about her trip at musée du louvre. there are other museums here in paris for us to visit. one at a time....