SMALL COLLECTION PERHAPS BUT CERTAINLY IMPRESSIVE
From across the Rhone, the Opera house was quite visible and I knew the Fine Arts Museum was just behind it. This time around, I found my way as if I was going « home ». The building itself is not a real beauty from the exterior but it has been renovated in the interior and the inside garden is a dream. but the inner garden is a dream Not so beautiful from the street and pleasant to walk around I asked one of the people at the desk where the « new collection » was. I don’t blame him for looking at me blankly as the so called « new collection » is from 1977. When I described the art I had seen in photos, he was even more confused and suggested that perhaps this was not the place for me to be and that I should go to the Contemporary Museum. The so called modern collection was perhaps « too small » for me to be interested. I walked up the three flights of stairs taking in the different galleries as I climbed. Then I « fel...