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Hotel near African and Oceanian Art Museum
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Hôtel Bellevue
L’Hôtel Bellevue, un hôtel de 3 étoiles entièrement rénové en 2003, est bien situé au pied du Sacré Cœur dans le quartier Montmartre, avec ses cafés et restaurants pleins d’ambiance et d’atmosphère dans les environs immédiats. On a accès direct à tous les divertissements touristiques en partant du métro Anvers, qui n’est qu’à deux arrêts de la Gare du Nord, et pas loin de l’Etoile (Champs-Elysées) et Opéra.
African and Oceanian Art Museum
This interesting museum is located at the north-west side of the forest of Vincennes, in a building designed for the Colonial Exhibition in 1931. It houses one of the best collections of African and Oceanic art in Europe.
You can find Oceanic art such as Australian painted bark, drums, masks, funerary figures and root sculptures from New Guinea.
The other side of the main hall contains African art including masks. The first floor displays dance and ceremonial masks brought in from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Ghana, and ceremonial statues from the Congo. There are also works from the former French colonies of north Africa such as Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (jewellery, ceramics, furniture…) This museum was visited often by Picasso and friends.
In the basement of this building, which is just opposite the zoo, is a tropical aquarium and terrarium with five live crocodiles in a tiny pit surrounded by tanks of tropical fishes.
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