Cluny Museum, 1

The Cluny is France's National Museum of the Middle Ages. The site dates back to the 1st century CE, including part of the baths of Lutetia, the name the Romans gave to the village that was home to the tribe of Parisii. The major part of the site is Medieval in origin, the Paris townhouse of the abbots of Cluny. Cluny itself was the largest and most powerful of the French Medieval abbeys, feared by kings as well as popes. In the 19th century the townhouse site was bought by a prominent collector to display his thousands of Medieval artifacts, and eventually, it all came to the state. With a variety of other additions, it became the national museum of the middle ages, and has undergone a series of renovations, etc., over the years, the most recent ending just last year. It's in the 5th, a pleasant 10 minute walk, and we had not been to it since 2014.

New building for entrance, security, reception, gift shop, etc.

Helpful model of the complex

Two rock crystal lion heads, late Roman antiquity, thought to have
adorned a throne in the Carolingian era, 8th or 9th century...

The Treasure of Guarrazar...votive crowns thought
to have been a gift of the Visigoth king Recceswinth
to the cathedral of Toledo; mid 7th century

Carved elephant ivory, "the horn of Charlemagne," Metz, 12th

In a room filled with Romanesque capitals, colonettes, etc.

A shrine of carved saints, etc.; carved from bovine bone

A reliquary box, made in 10th century Egypt, adorned in 12th century
France; the top crystal is for viewing whatever relic might have been
contained

A whole room of reliquary boxes and other devotional items

Spare parts department: there's a room with stained
glass left over (!) from a 19th century renovation of Saint-Chapelle;
some Biblical king getting assassinated

Samson having eye surgery; the brilliance of these
pieces was incredible; a presentation worthy of Saint-
Chapelle

Happy angel

The Poissy grain chest; used to measure 1 muid of grain (1,828.1 liters);
13th century; definition of a muid will definitely be on the quiz

Non-Medieval staircase

Virgin and Child Reliquary for the Holy Umbilical Cord;
the relic would have been in the niche in the child's stomach;
I swear I am not making this up; Ile de France, 1400; of
course there would be many smidgeons of umbilical cord

A pilgrim in St. James guise; if you weren't off on a
crusade or dying from a plague, you could always go 
on a pilgrimage

Famille Jouvenel des Ursins...anonymous, 15th; a noble family
worshiping 

As the Paris townhouse of the Abbots of Cluny, 
of course there was a chapel

Chapel portal