Jardin du Musée Carnavalet, Museum garden in Le Marais, Paris, France
The Jardin du Musée Carnavalet is a 1,337 m² public garden laid out in 1926 in the French style, on the border of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements. Low clipped hedges form interlocking scroll and maze-like patterns over gravel paths and soil beds, with cone-shaped shrubs and small yellow and red blooms among them. A pale stone facade with tall windows stands behind, and a large shrub with round pink flowers grows at one side.
The garden was created in the 1920s as an outdoor extension of the Carnavalet Museum, which preserves collections documenting Paris's development. The design reflects the classical French garden traditions of that era.
The garden was laid out in 1926 in the French style, as a green courtyard within the Carnavalet Museum complex. Its low clipped hedges form scrollwork and maze-like patterns over gravel paths, with cone-shaped shrubs and small yellow and red blooms set among them. The parterre is reached from the rue des Francs-Bourgeois and the rue de Sévigné.
The garden is entered from the street, through the rue des Francs-Bourgeois and the 23, rue Madame-de-Sévigné, not through the museum galleries. It lies within the Carnavalet museum complex, on the border of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, and is served by metro line 1 at Saint-Paul station.
The garden covers 1,337 square metres inside the Carnavalet museum complex, straddling the border of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements. It was laid out in 1926 in the French style, and the clipped scrollwork hedges seen today follow that design.
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