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Private Guided Art and Museum Tours Have you ever felt overwhelmed or scared off by the size and the lines in front of French museums? Well, with French Links Tours you needn't be. With our guides you get to avoid the long lines and you’ll glide through the major museums and blockbuster shows without getting exhausted or bored. Don’t think you have to limit yourself to the usual big museums - Paris has over 150 different museums ranging from the Museum of the Mint and the Fan Museum to the Museum of Wine and Letters and Manuscripts. French Links Tours also prides itself on organizing tours to the newest museums in Paris which include the Museum of Architectural Heritage, the Museum of Cinema, the Museum of the Quai Branly with 3,500 artifacts: sculpture, textiles, masks, musical instruments, household objects and more from Oceania, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the Museum of Decorative Arts which boasts stunning furnished rooms, and the Museum of the Orangerie which shows one of the finest collections of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art in France as well as Monet's water lilies. Whatever your passion, French Links Tours can find the right museum for you. Our Guides We work only with trained, experienced guides, who are either university-educated native English speakers or French national guides who speak flawless English. Both have the people skills to make Americans and other English-speakers feel at home in France. Our multilingual guides also have fluency in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German and Chinese, both Mandarin and Cantonese. Highlights and Secrets of the Louvre: From the Da Vinci Code to the Crown Jewels See Fees to book your tours.
Artistic Paris at the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Rodin and the Marmottan Museum
See Fees to book your tours.
The Jacquemart-André Museum, a 19th Century treasure trove See Fees to book your tours.
Montmartre: Home to Revolutions in Art and History You will also see the Moulin de la Galette, immortalized by Renoir, among others, before heading down Rue Lepic to the café where the movie Amelie was filmed. See Fees to book your tours. The School of Paris in Montparnasse See Fees to book your tours.
Museums and Quartiers Without Crowds Tour See Fees to book your tours. Little-Known Museums Tour In and Around Paris For those seeking something more exotic, then come along to the Museum of the Institute of the Arab World, the Guimet Asian Museum or the Museum of Fashion and Textiles. On these tours the rich past in these museums comes alive, so that you are able to partake in the secret, often surprising history and culture of France. See Fees to book your tours. The Road To Impressionism Tour
See Fees to book your tours. Discovering French Decorative Arts See Fees to book your tours. Exotic Paris: The Fastest Trip to Asia and Africa See Fees to book your tours. Themed Museum Tours: The Louvre for Gourmets, the Naughty Orsay, Women in Art See Fees to book your tours.
If you have to cancel your trip one month prior to the scheduled tour we provide a 30% refund. Two weeks or less, there is no refund. French Links Tours and British Links Tours are not responsible for any loss or injury incurred before, during and after the tour. We strongly advise you to purchase travel insurance prior to departure and check with your physician on your travel plans if you have chronic health problems. |
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With our guides you will discover the history of this 800-year-old palace,
starting in the Medieval wing and going through the late 20th century
wings designed by the American architect Io Ming Pei. You will learn
the stories behind its most famous treasures, whether it's the Mona
Lisa, the Winged Victory or the Venus de Milo. And you will be dazzled
by the crown jewels in the newly restored Apollo Gallery, as well as
by the wonderful selection of shops in the underground shopping mall.
The Louvre is a mini-city in itself, and we have made it easy to navigate
in the world’s biggest museum, even for the physically disabled.
If you love Impressionist and post-Impressionist art and sculpture,
we also offer private tours of the Orsay Museum as well to the Marmottan,
which has the largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet. Renoir,
Cézanne, Van Gogh, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, are just some of the
artists that you will revisit on the tour, learning as you go the historical
context during which these paintings and sculptures were made.
Imagine an artistic journey through the heart of the Italian Renaissance, 18th Century French Masterpieces and works by the flemish masters... Built by Edouard André and his wife Nélie Jacquemart, both avid art collectors, in Haussmann’s 19th Century Paris, this private mansion offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a wealthy 19th Century home, with its state rooms, monumental staircase, winter garden, private apartments, reception areas and more. Enjoy lunch at the museum's magnificent Tiepolo ceiling and ask us about privatizing the museum for a special event.
With our expert guide, you will discover the "wedding cake" church of
the Sacré Coeur, newly cleaned and refurbished, with some of
the most stunning religious mosaics in the world. After you learn to
pick out the monuments of Paris from the base of the church, you will
head to the Place du Tertre, famed for its outdoor artists, the only
extant vineyard in Montmartre next to the Lapin Agile, and the Bateau
Lavoir, where Cubism was invented by Picasso and Braque.
On the
eve of World War I, artists from Russia and Eastern came by train to
Paris, to study and create their own version of beauty: today their
names of these once starving artists are world-renowned, be they Chagall,
Soutine, Zadkine, Pascin, and Modigliani. With French Links Tours we
will walk in their footsteps on the Boulevard Montparnasse, discovering
their studios, hotels, and cafes that they made famous. Highlights of
the tour include La Ruche, the Museum of Montparnasse and the Zadkine
Museum.
If you
want to get away from hordes of tourists, you can now visit the Louvre,
the Musée d'Orsay, the Picasso Museum and even the Orangerie at select
nights of the week. French Links Tours will prepay your tickets, include
them in your welcome pack at your hotel and arrange for a private guided
tour you will never forget. In addition, we can organize an early evening
walking tour that starts at 5 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. just before dinner,
that gives you a chance to see Paris in a whole new way, with greater
ease and calm.
Let author/guide Rachel Kaplan take you on a fascinating expedition
through the house-museums and collections that are truly off the beaten
track, from the smallest museum in the world that fits only eight visitors
at a single time, to the homes of such famous artists as Maurice Ravel,
Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Moreau and Ossip Zadkine or the delightful
Baccarat Museum.
Along
the Seine, with its misty sunrises and blazing sunsets, reflecting in
its shimmering surface, painters such as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet,
Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, and Edouard Manet found their calling.
While they painted their impressions of the scene before them, the critics
scoffed and dubbed them the "Impressionists." Then came Cézanne
and Van Gogh, one who brought angles and cubes, the other wild swirls
and brilliant, eye-popping colors. As we visit Chatou, Pontoise, Giverny,
Vétheuil, Meudon and Auvers-sur-Oise, we discover the landscapes and
houses, museums and restaurants, hills and flowers that inspired some
of art's greatest masterpieces and changed the way we see the world.
For those
who wish to learn more about the history of French decorative arts,
we can arrange visits to two of the most stunning museums in Paris:
the Carnavalet in the Marais district, and the Museum of Decorative
Arts on the Rue de Rivoli. In both museums you will discover handsome
furnished rooms, French porcelains, fine crystal, and paintings that
reveal the taste of Parisian residents from the Middle Ages to the 20th
century. Some of the highlights on this tour: the original furniture
that furnished the cell of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, the bathroom
of Jeanne Lanvin, the bed of the most famous courtesan in Paris, who
inspired Zola's novel Nana.
You don't
have to go on safari to discover several stunning museums devoted to
African and early art from other peoples: our favorites are the sumptuous
new Quai Branly Museum designed by Jean Nouvel next to the Eiffel Tower
and the more intimate Dapper Museum in the 16th arrondissement. For
those visitors who wish to contemplate Oriental art in tranquillity,
there are two museums not to be missed: the Cernuschi Museum in the
Parc Monceau, which boasts the largest bronze Buddha in Western Europe,
and the Guimet Museum, which offers a stunning range of sculptures,
brush paintings, and porcelains from China, Japan, Korea, India and
Tibet.
For those
visitors who want something different, French Links Tours now offers
themed tours of the Louvre and the Orsay Museum that explore such diverse
topics as Food in Art, Women in Art, and Sex in Art. Our guides have
developed unique tours that change the way you visit museums. "Edutainment"
is now a specialty that has gained such fans as Eurogroup, which once
a month organizes a different themed tour for its executives followed
by a glass of wine.
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Contact details at our offices in Paris, France:
Phone/Fax: 01
45 77 01 63 For all queries
when calling from outside of France contact:
Rachel Kaplan
at: +331 45 77 01 63 The best way
to reach Rachel Kaplan outside office hours is by email: We answer
all queries in English and in French.
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