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Louvre Museum

Today I decided to explore a cultural place. After teleporting to different places I didn't find them interesting. Then I searched for a Museum. I saw two places in SL for Louvre Museum.

As you see, here is an information sign which shows 4 floors to visit. 

The downstairs floor shows antiquity ages under V century. The first-floor objects are related to modern ages XVI to XXI century. The second floor refers to middle ages V to XV century.

The Louvre museum in real life is housed in Louvre palace. Louvre museum is the world's largest art museum in Paris, France. There are many historic paintings and monuments in the museum. 

I have never been visited Louvre museum in real life but my husband has been there around 3 years ago. He was following me exploring virtual museum today. he found the museum has similar look and feel to the real Louvre museum. The big difference is the number of visitors! :) 

What I am trying to say is the lack of clear signs and directions which I was expected more due to excellent graphics of the museum.

 Almost all the represented arts in the SL museum didn't have information about artists, such as date, specifications. Personally, I believe they have to have because they represent the real arts, paintings, statues and monuments of the real Louvre museum. In addition, places such as museum require presenting detailed information to share the knowledge with visitors.

I would like to add that taking the screenshot is an advantage of exploring in second life. I knew that taking the photo with flash is forbidden, in particular sections. ;)

In this nice big room, three large beautiful paintings were seen. In order to check the object's profile,I touched them. I found some information related to two of them. The middle one identifies Louis XIV en Apollon and the right one is Louis XVI. There were no details about the left painting.

In the same room, are two purple TIS hybrid lights. once I touched them. I saw a lady dancing inside the ball. I realized those lights must be dancing hud. I tried several times. Just once I got the message to animate my avatar and I missed the message. The object creator and many visitors commented for these lights.
On floor close to old armchair there are some old storybooks to borrow however, nothing mentioned how I could borrow. 

As I pressed the button to zoom in I saw a female dancing inside the dance hud. It's very exciting. Unfortunately, I couldn't show in the screenshot.

Outside the museum, three old  Rezzer cars were available to drive. The cars are related to 1900. It was easy to move the car.

A little bit far from the museum, was a souvenir shop. Different items are available for selling. Such as postal cards, posters, cute toys and Eiffel tower statue. 

In the photo, you can see 35 postal cards to buy as souvenirs. The prices of postal cards are cheap. I bought seven cards for just L$2. The ones that are highlighted with yellow colour.

I looked for any free souvenirs and I just found the party hat as free, among all the souvenirs. The prices were quite expensive. Most of them are over L$ 20

In the Zero floor, on a desk, I saw a book for visitors to write their comments on Louvre museum. If you touch the book, you will be given a message from the object. It refers you to an online page. In the page, you can write your comment and post it as I showed in the last photo.

 

Here as you see, the first comment is my comment.