From the start of explorations for the “New World” or South Pacific Islands, mariners brought many “souvenirs” from their trip. Europeans are passionate for this far away civilisations and the wealthier get their own cabinet of curiosities. That was how a first temporary ethnographic Museum gathering many private collections opened its doors in Paris in… Read more »
Comédie musicale rendue célèbre par le film éponyme sorti en 1978 et mettant en scène Olivia Newton-John et John Travolta, Grease est devenu le symbole de la jeunesse américaine des années 1950. C’est en 1971 que la pièce est créée à Chicago avant d’être jouée plus de 3300 fois à Broadway dès l’année suivante. Depuis,… Read more »
In 1899 Paris city has organised a World’s fair, a true showcase of the French expertise. It represented an opportunity for Gustave Eiffel to imagine and devise the famous tower which became a symbol for the capital. At the end of the 19th century the Eiffel Tower is an architectural and technological achievement and the… Read more »