Paris in the springtime

 ...was wet, grey, freezing, and yet somehow still romantic.

Last March 2019 wonder | wander | women landed in Paris to see the Anting-anting exhibition in the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, and spent a week wandering the city's museums.

Statues of the Louvre

We're feeling nostalgic this week, so it's a good time to share memories of that lovely city across the water - Paris! Specifically, its crown jewel the Louvre Museum.

Archeology Goes Graphic at the Louvre

The Petite Galerie in the Louvre is a fully accessible exhibition space designed to introduce new and inclusive audiences to the broad themes of the famous museum. This year's theme is particularly close to the heart of wonder | wander | women : relating archeology to graphic novels.

the bells of Notre Dame

Devastated at the news of the Notre Dame disaster. It's difficult to believe that just a few weeks ago wonder | wander | women were in Paris to pay tribute to that iconic silhouette.

The ancient souls of modern art: Musée du Quai Branly

The Paris museum of indigenous culture, Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, was created to showcase the art and artefacts of non-Western civilisations. In the classical art paradise of Paris, visitors tend to focus on European painters and cultural history, and less on the cultures that heavily influenced modern movements like Cubism and Impressionism.

Anting-anting: the secret soul of the Filipino

For the first time since 2013, the Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, the Paris museum of indigenous art, invited collaborators from the Philippines to present an exhibit on the mysterious objects of power that make up such a large part of Philippine life: the anting-anting.