Lyon: Musée Miniature et Cinéma (by kerouac2)
Mar 29, 2016 16:41:28 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2016 16:41:28 GMT
This is a completely private museum with no government subsidies and is also rather recent as such things go. It is a creation of the miniaturiste Dan Ohlmann (Possibly the only term in the English language is "model maker.") whose first effort was a 1/12th model of the Parisian restaurant Maxim's, which was first shown in 1985. That of course led to other works and soon there was a travelling exhibition of miniatures which went all over Europe as well as a number of times to Japan, which has a passion for miniature objects. The French Ministry of Culture even helped to organise some shows in the United States.
During a 15-day exhibition in Lyon, Dan Ohlmann fell in love with the city and opened his first museum there, Le Palais de la Miniature in 1989. This became the principal "alternative" museum of Lyon, but Dan Ohlmann developed another passion in the meantime: the creations of model makers in the cinema. In 2003, he merged with a Swiss collector of miniatures, and she assisted him in opening the current museum in the Maison des Avocats in 2005. The Maison des Avocats is a medieval building in the old section of Lyon that was nearly demolished but saved at the last minute.
Anyway, I decided to go there some time ago and finally achieved my goal yesterday.
It is pointed out on multiple occasions that every single cinema prop and décor is the original one from the movie. There are absolutely no copies. The displays begin with what was undoubtedly the largest acquistion of cinema props -- most of the sets from the German movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, starring Ben Whishaw and Dustin Hoffman. If you never saw it, it takes place in medieval Paris and concerns a perfumer's apprentice who discovers that the finest perfume can be created by collecting the souls of murdered dead virgins or some such. In any case, this means LOTS of little perfume bottles.
I don't think it was really necessary to add mannequins to the scenes, but that's just my opinion.
Anyway, all of this stuff would have been destroyed by Constantin Studios if somebody hadn't wanted it.
They may have kept a bit too much, but I don't want to fault anybody for their artistic obsessions.
It was necessary to change floors constantly in this building. Frankly, I don't think that the stairs have passed the safety code.
The building is strange enough that you sometimes go outside before going back in. Another excuse for more Perfume.
customers looking for the best perfume
Actually, there were video displays to make this section more palatable, showing how the scenes were set up -- and dismantled. I was amazed to see a cobblestone street rolled up as a carpet.
Last photo of this part: Dustin Hoffman's desk.
Some of the models were just "pre-models" before film sets were built full scale, like in this Jim Carrey movie.
One thing that I enjoyed was that cheesy sets from unknown science fiction movies were displayed and not just blockbusters.
When I first entered the museum, I thought that there were not all that many visitors, but actually it turned out that the place was crammed full.
A lot of the props reminded me of movies that I had pretty much forgotten.
But nobody forgets the original Alien.
During a 15-day exhibition in Lyon, Dan Ohlmann fell in love with the city and opened his first museum there, Le Palais de la Miniature in 1989. This became the principal "alternative" museum of Lyon, but Dan Ohlmann developed another passion in the meantime: the creations of model makers in the cinema. In 2003, he merged with a Swiss collector of miniatures, and she assisted him in opening the current museum in the Maison des Avocats in 2005. The Maison des Avocats is a medieval building in the old section of Lyon that was nearly demolished but saved at the last minute.
Anyway, I decided to go there some time ago and finally achieved my goal yesterday.
This is the whole complex of the Maison des Avocats.
And here is the entrance to the museum.
And here is the entrance to the museum.
It is pointed out on multiple occasions that every single cinema prop and décor is the original one from the movie. There are absolutely no copies. The displays begin with what was undoubtedly the largest acquistion of cinema props -- most of the sets from the German movie Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, starring Ben Whishaw and Dustin Hoffman. If you never saw it, it takes place in medieval Paris and concerns a perfumer's apprentice who discovers that the finest perfume can be created by collecting the souls of murdered dead virgins or some such. In any case, this means LOTS of little perfume bottles.
I don't think it was really necessary to add mannequins to the scenes, but that's just my opinion.
Anyway, all of this stuff would have been destroyed by Constantin Studios if somebody hadn't wanted it.
They may have kept a bit too much, but I don't want to fault anybody for their artistic obsessions.
It was necessary to change floors constantly in this building. Frankly, I don't think that the stairs have passed the safety code.
The building is strange enough that you sometimes go outside before going back in. Another excuse for more Perfume.
customers looking for the best perfume
Actually, there were video displays to make this section more palatable, showing how the scenes were set up -- and dismantled. I was amazed to see a cobblestone street rolled up as a carpet.
Last photo of this part: Dustin Hoffman's desk.
Some of the models were just "pre-models" before film sets were built full scale, like in this Jim Carrey movie.
One thing that I enjoyed was that cheesy sets from unknown science fiction movies were displayed and not just blockbusters.
When I first entered the museum, I thought that there were not all that many visitors, but actually it turned out that the place was crammed full.
A lot of the props reminded me of movies that I had pretty much forgotten.
But nobody forgets the original Alien.
