Journée du musée

There are two museums by the apartment - one Musee Magnin 3m from our back door and the other, Musee des Beaux Arts, 3 m from our front door so it was inevitable that we would visit them and we had programmed that for today as the weather was predicted to be wet (it wasn’t) and our landlady was calling in to change the linen this morning.

Both have superb displays. 

Musee Magnin is a private museum containing over 1500 pieces collected by Maurice & Jeanne Magnin through the late 1800s & which were left to the State with the proviso that the collection not be added to.

Between museum visits we walked to the railway station to purchase tickets for a day trip tomorrow and saw numerous Dijonnais including families taking part in Velotour which appeared to be a cycle ride through the streets of Dijon - the organized event was well patronised as we had seen many groups cycling throughout the morning.
On the way to the second museum we passed another bookstore filled with old books and while one could describe it as junky in fact  it was that which made it worth stopping and admiring......something else which made us stop were the “musicians” in the Beaux Arts courtyard entertaining the crowd utilizing the old fashion organ grinder type instrument The tune is determined by what notes are feed into the machine off the paper “trail” which can be seen on both sides of the unit in the aboveand which look like this.

It is impossible to describe the art displayed in the Beaux Arts other than most of the pieces are outstanding, mind blowing even considering how old and intricate some are

It was a very varied collection and covered “art” from around 300BC through to the 19th century with emphasis on both religious works and the Dukes of Burgundy.

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