Museums in Monaco

Today was the Journees de Patrimoine in Monaco (the French equivalent was 2 weekends ago), so we figured we ought to take advantage of this and visit some museums (although we've been to Monaco plenty of times we haven't really done any touristy stuff - unless you count the Monaco GP or the casino, that is...).



Our first visit was to the Prince's palace, on top of the Rocher de Monaco by the old town. So we got our free ticket (which was handed to us at the entrance by one guy, which we then gave to another guy 10 meters later??), and dutifully joined the hordes of visitors. I have to say it was quite disappointing, kind of like a wannabe Versailles. A lot of cheap, fake-looking decoration and furniture. Really, one could have expected a bit more class from Monaco...




After this we headed for the Museum of Oceanography, which proved to be much more interesting. It's divided into 2 parts. The less interesting one, where we didn't spend a lot of time, is like a maritime natural history museum, with fossils and whale skeletons and the like.



The more interesting part is like a big aquarium, with various tanks depicting the marine life of the Med. Really well presented and interesting. Gave me the itch to do some scuba diving again...