Musée de Cluny

The Musée de Cluny "Cluny Museum", French pronunciation: ​, also so-called as Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes et hôtel de Cluny "National Museum of the Middle Ages – Cluny thermal baths in addition to mansion, is the museum of the Middle Ages in Paris, France. it is for located in the Latin quarter in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at 6 Place Paul-Painlevé, next to the square Samuel-Paty, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel as alive as the Rue Saint-Jacques.

The Hôtel de Cluny is partially constructed on the remnants of the third century Gallo-Roman baths known as the Thermes de Cluny, thermal baths from the Roman era of Gaul. The museum consists of two buildings: the frigidarium "cooling room", within the vestiges of the Thermes de Cluny, and the Hôtel de Cluny itself, which houses its collections. The frigidarium is approximately 6,000 square meters.

The museum houses a vast collection of objects and art from the Middle Ages. Among the principal holdings of the museum are the six tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn La Dame à la licorne.

Gallery

Thermes de Cluny: frigidarium

Interior of the Roman baths

Element of the Pillar of the Boatmen, number one quarter of the 1st century AD

Room of the Roman baths with capitals from the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

View of the courtyard and its gallery

View of the courtyard and tower

Tower door

Gable window

The well

View from the medieval garden

View of the garden arcades

Capitals under the arcades

Vaults of the gothic chapel

One of the rooms of the museum

A colourful stained glass room in the museum

The Devil and a woman, stained glass, ago 1248, from the Sainte-Chapelle

Marble sculpture of the Presentation at the Temple, Burgundy, gradual 14th century

Reliquary of the Holy Umbilical Cord : Virgin and Child, gilded silver, France Paris ?, 1407

Casket : Apostles and angels, gilded champlevé Limoges enamel, 2nd quarter of the 13th century

Adam, stone, Paris, around 1260, from the interior of the south transept of Notre-Dame de Paris

Altarpiece of the Abbey of Saint-Denis, around 1250–1260, episodes of the life of Saint Benedict

« Melancholic » Apostle, stone, around 1243–1248, from the interior decor of the Sainte-Chapelle

Illustrated Tacuinum Sanitatis of Ibn Butlan, Rhineland, 2nd half of 15th century

Visigothic votive crowns from the Treasure of Guarrazar, Spain, 7th century

Ivory binding of Ariadne with Maenad, Satyr and Cupids, Constantinople, 6th century

Ivory crosier, Virgin and child with two angels, around 1300

Tapestry of The Lady and the Unicorn, A mon seul désir, slow 15th century.

Tapestry of The Lady and the Unicorn, Hearing

Tapestry of The Lady and the Unicorn, Taste, detail

Head of the Queen of Sheba statue-column, limestone, 1137–1140. From the Saint-Denis church.

The reported in the Temple, reported during the moment half of the 14th century,

Madonna and Child, made around 1240–1250 in Paris.

The Swoon of the Virgin, made during the late Middle Ages.

The ascent to Calvary, made around 1400.