Great Museum: Finally, if you'd like a surprise-of which I now rob you-look up the Balzac House at the hamlet of Sache, near Azay-le-Rideau. In one of the rooms of this museum dedicated to France's geant litteraire is, of all things, a Jo Davidson Museum! The late, much-whiskered Jo was a frequent sojourner hereabouts and his heads of the literary great museum, more than a score of them, done in marble, bronze and terra cotta, are of utmost interest. The museum was opened in the summer of 1954.
The National Museum has among its cultural collection a wonderful section on ethnography-to pick out one department from many-revealing various ways of life, including the ways of Greenland Eskimos. The State Museum of Art has twenty rooms of Danish paintings. The Glypto-thek, for sculpture, is outstanding, and it is abetted by a separate Thorvald-sen Museum, with all the works of the great museum Danish sculptor (mostly, alas, in plaster copies).
Antwerp's Museum of Fine Arts is one of the two richest galleries in le Low Lands, rivaled only by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is a lace for browsing not by the hour but by the half day. And a private col-:ction of great museum interest is to be seen in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh, n Lange Gasthuisstraat.
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