UCA Rochester
MA programme
Study visit to Paris
22nd – 24th of June 2009
Itinerary
Day 1 – Monday, the 22nd of June 2009
7.45 am meet in the area in front of the ticket barrier in the Eurostar terminal at London St Pancras International
8.32 am depart London St Pancras International (train no.9010)
Please remember to take your passport and visas with you.
11.47 arrive Paris Gare du Nord
transfer to Hotel (10 minutes by foot, so please pack lightly)
Hôtel Liège Strasbourg
67 boulevard de Strasbourg
F-75010 Paris
Tel : 0033 (0)1 47 70 10 57
Fax: 0033 (0)1 47 70 62 70
E-mail: hotelliegestrasbourg@orange.fr
for details please see:
12.30 am meet outside the hotel, departing on Métro line 4, direction Porte d’Orléans, alighting at Châtelet-les-Halles to visit the modern art museum
Centre Georges Pompidou, with its permanent collection and two special exhibitions on the mobiles of Alexander Calder and the paintings of Vassili Kandinsky; please see
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Accueil.nsf/Document/HomePage?OpenDocument&L=2
16.30 pm meet at Métro station Le Peletier, line 7 (direction La Courneuve)
for a tour through the Parisian arcades
for information on the significance of these nineteenth-century architectural features see for instance:
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/welcome-to-the-worlds-first-shopping-malls-498317.html
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/travel/11culture.html
http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/waltbenj/yarcades.html
19.15 pm return to hotel
20.00 pm
Depart hotel Métro, line 4, direction Porte d’Orléans, alight stop Vavin and follow directions to rue Vavin, upon exiting station turn right into rue Vavin
20.30 pm dinner at restaurant
Le Parc aux Serfs
50, rue Vavin
75006 Paris
tel. 0033 (0)1 43 54 87 83
Day 2 – Tuesday, the 26th of June 2009
8.30 am meet in front of the hotel, departing Métro line 4, direction Porte d’Orléans, changing at Châtelet-les-Halles to RER line A5 to Poissy to visit:
Villa Savoye in Poissy
82 rue de Villiers
F-78300 Poissy
for initial information on this iconic building, please see
http://villa-savoye.monuments-nationaux.fr/
return on RER line A5 back to the station Gare de Lyon, to visit the
L’Institut du Monde Arabe
1, rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard
Place Mohammed V
F-75236 Paris Cedex 05
for information on the museum, please see:
for a visual tour through the seminal architecture, please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEEjTlJl8E
in the late afternoon I propose to visit the contemporary art/design museum
Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson
F-75008 PARIS
take Métro line 9 (direction Pont de Sèvres) and alight station Iéna; for information, please see
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fo3/low/programme/
Enjoy a free and non-academic evening
Day 3 – 24th of June 2009
11.00 am meet at
Les Arts Décoratifs
Mode et textile
107, rue de Rivoli
F-75001 Paris
nearest Métro station Palais Royal (Musée du Louvre), lines 1 or 7
to visit the exhibition ‘Madeleine Vionnet – The Purist of Fashion’
for information (in French), please see:
or in the same museum, a chance to see an important contextual exhibition on jewellery in the 1920s:
‘Art Déco Jewellery and the Avant-garde: Jean Després and Modern Jewellery Designers’
for information, please see:
alternatively, take Métro line 7 (direction Villejuif – Louis Aragon), alight Pont Marie or line 1 (direction Château de Vincennes), alight Saint-Paul to visit a retrospective on Henri Cartier-Bresson at the
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
for information on venue and exhibitions, please see
http://www.mep-fr.org/us/actu_1.htm
time to buy provisions for the train journey or the kitchen back home
Meet
17.30 pm at Gare du Nord, Eurostar concourse up the stairs for
18.13 pm departure (train no.9051)
19.34 pm arrive London St Pancras
International
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