Paris museums (by the people who wrote the book on the topic)

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Meet Anne Carminati and James Wesolowski, the authors of 111 Museums in Paris You Shouldn't Miss.

We chat about the museum scene in Paris, the pros and cons of large and small museums, and a few good ones to find.

Their official website: https://www.111places.com/111-museums-in-paris

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. This is the Eiffel Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. And today we're going to be talking about the museums of Paris, which is a topic I've covered a little bit in the past, but today we're going to do a deep dive. Thank you to two authors who are sitting in front of me. I'm going to introduce them right now. I'm even going to try and pronounce both your surnames, although I don't know what I've
0:21.7	got myself into. I'm sitting with Anne Carmini. Yes. It sounds Italian. Yeah. It is? It is.
0:27.9	Uh-huh. So you've got a bit of Italian as well going on. Right. 50%. 50%? Right. Okay. Anne
0:33.5	Carminaati and James Wesselowski. Perfect. Is that Polish?
0:37.8	Yes.
0:38.4	There you go.
0:39.5	How do you say it?
0:40.7	Wesselowski.
0:41.5	Wessolowski. What are they say in Poland?
0:43.4	Vesovsky.
0:44.1	Wazzolski.
0:44.8	Okay, well, what are, this is like the Olympic Games here right now with these different nationalities going. I want to talk about museums with you guys and straight away off the bat, 111 museums in Paris that you shouldn't miss.
0:57.3	You've written the book, I'm holding it in my hand. It seems like a lot of museums to not miss.
1:03.9	Where do we get 111 from? Where did that come from?
1:07.2	Actually, there are more than that.
1:08.5	How many are there?
1:09.4	I think over 130, right?
1:12.6	147 at my last...
1:14.0	So what happened to those other 30 that didn't make the cut?
1:16.7	Were they no good, or did you just want to have 111 as the number?
1:20.7	Well, 111 is the point of the series that this book is a part of.
1:25.8	Right.
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