"Musée de la Chasse" in Paris

[Troubleshooter]

Wow! Some beautiful pics. Love the artwork!
Can you further detail pic #2?? Is that a lamp? What are those tips??

Picture nb 2 is a rhino horn mount, with plastic protection pieces for the tips I assume. The whole on a pedestal inside a glass display case.

Fixfire: That lamp is indeed made from a horn, but VertigoBE has misidentified the animal. No that my dear sir, is the horn from what is known as a "Bill-yard." It seems that they were often hunted at night.

For those of you under a certain age, who do not get the reference:

 

[franzfmdavis]

Hello Members,

Not quite a hunting report this time, but just some pictures of the Hunting Museum in Paris, that my wife and I visited a few weeks ago.
To the moderators: I post this in the hunting reports, for lack of a better place? If you feel like it should be elsewhere, do not hesitate to move it of course.

We visited the "Musée de la Chasse" on the 29th of June. It was a little surprise activity from my wife, during a weekend getaway to Paris (without kids!) visiting her sister.

Something I did not know, is that when you can show proof that you are a hunter, basically a hunting license in some form, then you will get a discount on the entry price! I cannot think of one other place in the world where being a hunter gives you a preferential treatment

The museum is very clean and well-maintained, but most importantly, it has been designed/decorated with a lot of taste! My wife was asking me if we could one day have a house (castle) looking like this!
There was also plenty of personnel inside that are all very eager and enthusiastic to give information and show you around. (although the accuracy, and depth of knowledge was sometimes a bit lacking)

Without much more text, here are some highlights. This is definitely a place to visit and spend 1 to 2 hrs, if you happen to be in Paris. The only thing I found a bit lacking, is in the hunting weapons section, it was mainly focused on medieval firearms up to percussion firearms. A part from on or two exceptions, nothing more recent, like beginning 20th century, for example.
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Cheers!

Vertigo

That would be one of my favorite museum tours! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Troubleshooter]

Don't know when next I will be in Paris, but that museum just got added to the list of things to see and do. Thanks so much for posting it.

And check one more off the list! As mentioned by VertigoBE above, allotting a couple of hours would be a good plan. Unfortunately the schedule and traffic didn’t accommodate this, so we arrived two hours before closing and the entry queue extended to the end of the block. About 90 minutes before closing, one of the staff came out and graciously provided complimentary tickets for all who were waiting in line, so I didn’t get the opportunity to exercise my “hunting license discount” as mentioned in another post.

Made it through the museum in about 75 minutes but could have easily spent an hour or more just in the arms room with all the fine arms and taxidermy mounts. That room really provides one with a whole new standard to which to aspire. Maybe in some future life

The classic artwork was fantastic, the “modern art” in the rotating exhibition downstairs not so much. But most of the modern stuff doesn’t really do much for me.

Well worth the time if transiting the area.

 

[Hunt anything]

Don’t know how I missed this. Thanks for posting, very interesting.

 

[VertigoBE]

And check one more off the list! As mentioned by VertigoBE above, allotting a couple of hours would be a good plan. Unfortunately the schedule and traffic didn’t accommodate this, so we arrived two hours before closing and the entry queue extended to the end of the block. About 90 minutes before closing, one of the staff came out and graciously provided complimentary tickets for all who were waiting in line, so I didn’t get the opportunity to exercise my “hunting license discount” as mentioned in another post.

Made it through the museum in about 75 minutes but could have easily spent an hour or more just in the arms room with all the fine arms and taxidermy mounts. That room really provides one with a whole new standard to which to aspire. Maybe in some future life

The classic artwork was fantastic, the “modern art” in the rotating exhibition downstairs not so much. But most of the modern stuff doesn’t really do much for me.

Well worth the time if transiting the area.

Glad you liked it @Troubleshooter!

 

[Troubleshooter]

Thanks for bringing it to the attention of the forum!

 

[Jason Miller]

I was there in 1996! Glad its still open

 

[Frederik]

Very nice, have not seen this post before never knew this museum existed.