Is 'Les Catacombs' in Paris a museum???

Question

i have been given a project on museums of paris... one of u please tell me if i can include les catacombs in it

Answer 1

most the time, important historic sites are protected from tourists.

Answer 2

The Catacombs of Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Organized in a renovated section of the city's vast network of subterranean tunnels and caverns towards the end of the 18th century, it became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and was open to the public on a regular basis from 1867.

This cemetery covers a portion of Paris' former mines near the Left Bank's Place Denfert-Rochereau, in a location that was just outside the city gates before Paris expanded in 1860. Although this cemetery covers only a small section of underground tunnels officially called "les carrières de Paris" ("the quarries of Paris"), Parisians today popularly refer to the entire network as "the catacombs".

Answer 3

No, it's actually an underground cemetery, that's what catacombs are. Creepy, huh? :P

If you've ever seen "Scariest Places on Earth", you can go down there and get like, totally lost. One guy found a video camera down there, took it in, played the video, and was recorded a guy running from something and then just dropped the camera. I was surprised it even worked, lol! :D

But anyways, yeah, it's an underground cemetery.

But don't go down there.

You won't come back.

;)

<3,

Knightess Of Cydonia :D

Answer 4

I think so

Answer 5

It is catacombs that you can walk through and very interesting (was there in 2005). It is a museum unto itself per say. They have signs telling you when bones were placed and some have patterns. As well, why they are there. There are miles to these catacombs, but they have a path for you to follow.

It is an experience to say the least. There are over 100 steps down and over 100 steps up. The steps are spiral so you can get dizzy.



Note, my last source is why you shouldn't waste your time. However, I disagree, but to each their own.

Answer 6

Yes officially it is a museum even though it is not an exhibition hall like most museums. But yes, on the Paris tourist office website, it is listed as a Musée de la Ville de Paris,meaning it is managed by the City of Paris, unlike National museums which are under the responsibility of the French Dept of Culture.

http://en.parisinfo.com/shows-exhibition...

Answer 7

no, guess what.... they're catacombs. big surprise, huh.

Answer 8

No. It's an underground cemetery. Or ossuary really, as there aren't any graves--just stacks and stacks of bones.

Part of the abandoned stone quarries under Paris were filled with bones recovered from other city cemeteries during major city works a couple of centuries ago.

It's an interesting place to visit if you aren't claustrophobic or freaked out by bones.