National Museum Of Antiquities: Sights of Edinburgh have been partially sifted above, but there are enough of them, in actuality, to keep you trotting for a week. A sight I've liked that seems to get little play is the IVa-tional Portrait Gallery and Antiquities Museum, on Queen Street and St. Andrew Street. The antiquities include, besides Roman and Bronze-Age items, fascinating relics of Mary Queen of Scots, of Bonnie Prince Charlie, of Bobbie Burns, of Sir Walter Scott, of Alexander Selkirk, the original Robinson Crusoe, and many other celebrities.
A four-in-one group off Kildare Street: The Ddil Eireann, Ireland's Parliament House (Dail is pronounced more or less like "Doll"); the National museum of Antiquities Library; the National museum of Antiquities Gallery; the National museum of Antiquities Museum, with an incomparable wealth and variety of Irish antiquities, including the Shrine of St. Patrick's Bell, the Tara Brooch, the Ardagh Chalice and many objects in pure gold.
Two famous old churches, both Protestant (to tourist surprise): Christ Church, notable in many ways, one of them being that it was first founded (in 1035) by a Danish Christian ruler named Sitric Silkbeard; and St. Patrick's Cathedral, the National museum of Antiquities cathedral of the Protestant "Church of Ireland." Jonathan Swift was its celebrated dean from 1713 to 1745. His pulpit is still shown and in the south aisle of the nave is a brass plate marking his burial place.
Other Paris museums of painting and sculpture than the two mentioned above, omitting here the galleries of modern-to-contemporary art, are the Petit Palais, with "A Century of French Art," the Rodin Museum, the Luxembourg Museum, the Cluny, for its antiquities and medieval treasures; and there are, of course, several private galleries, such as the Musee Jacquemart-Andre, the Musee Henner and the Musee Cognaci Jay, this on the boulevard des Capucines, almost opposite the Cafe de Paix.
In the provinces, almost every regional capital has a museum of some interest, for it may be said that in France artistic creation "comes naturally" and has done so for many centuries.
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