Thank you Zach for these photos!

Jeremy V. Krause wrote:

Thom Jason wrote: The catalog is in French unfortunately, and no measurements. It has pics of all the swords in the exhibit though. Do you happen to have the link where the catalogue can be purchased? Thanks!

Here: http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/en/shop/produ...boles.html

Zach,
Thank you so very much for sharing these photos, including the glimpses of the museum's architecture! There is no way I could get over to Paris anytime soon, let alone in time for this exhibition, so I am very grateful for this thread! I hope you enjoyed the City of Light in general as well.

Regarding the "sacrificial" Yeoman:

Julien M wrote:

I'm afraid it's a lost cause if you consider the number of visitor here per day, including kids...This yeoman will have to be sacrified for the greater purpose of educating people!

I think it is okay that that the multitudes are able to put their fingers on the blade, it is really the best way to appreciate the complex profiling of a well-engineered sword. I mean, the point is to help dispel the "crowbar with an edge" preconception, right? I suppose the museum could clean the thing more regularly, or supply cotton gloves, but I have another idea...
Let the poor thing get as crusty as it will. Then, assuming the sword is on loan from Albion, when the exhibition is over, Howy and co. can put the sword in the "moat sale" packaged with a copy of the exhibition catalog. A testament to what might be the first major exhibition to treat this group of artifacts with the proper due respect! Now there's a souvenir!

Cheers, All!

Thanks for the pics Thom, and good to "see" you again. :)

I agree with the idea that pictures like these draw people to the museum rather than keep them away because "they've already seen it."

Personally, now I know that the Childeric sword is on display there, I may have to visit it anyway, where at first I was planning to let it pass.

That Yeoman would be fine at the end of the exhibition if only someone would spend 5 minutes a day maintaining it.

It's a must see exhibit.

And good to see you too Paul. :lol:

Jeremy, I believe this is it:

http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/en/shop/produ...8xP3Bhcj02

Danny

I'm interested in seeing the video they had playing. I hope it will be made available on YouTube once everything is over. Or perhaps you managed to capture it as a part of your 2GB video walk-through?

It's already on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q&am...r_embedded

I purposely didn't include more than a glance at the video in mine in order to avoid any potential copyright issues.

Hm did I mention the very room in which the exhibit is set is the Frigidarium of the old Roman baths of Lutece, both the oldest stil standing building in all Paris and the place where Emperor Julian the Apostate was raised on the Shield by his Preatorians ? The rest of the Museum being a late XVth century private hotel built for the Abbeys of Cluny...

Many thanks for the insider insights, Fab!
I'd say you guys did a spectacular job putting this together. :D

Thanks Zach :blush:

That exhibition looks superb!

Hi Julien

Julien M wrote:

Congrats on this fantastic achievement! I hope you are having a hell of a good time.

Merci :)

I'm not doing too bad, thanks. The demos were in fact close to awesome in terms of exposure both to HEMA and to swords generally speaking. I don't have the exact numbers in mind, but every week end more than one thousand people attended the demos, with a ot of them showing real (and I hope, lasting) interest in what we did.

Julien M wrote:

I'm not surprised our good masters were sceptical about the point of such an event in France...after all anything remotely related to martial culture is all too quickly disregarded as of little interest these days in the land of the thousand cheeses...

It seems the numbers of visitors for the equivalent week-ends has increased by 30% this year...can't say it's because of the exhibit/the demos, but I have my own view on the matter....

Julien M wrote:

Hope that you got the opportunity to document and handle the pieces at least?

Not really, unfortunately. And as long as the exhibit is on, they're out of anyone's reach.

Julien M wrote:

I'll try to make it to the capital before you guys pack away most of these splendid specimens. I'd really hate to miss this (but there is a high chance I will unfortunately).

Well, let me know, maybe I'll be around.

Julien M wrote:

By the way are you the one responsible for introducing the Oakeshott typololy into a museum environment? That's unheard of!

I guess I must be blamed for that too...


Thanks again :)

Cheers

Fab

Thanks so much for sharing these pics, Zach!