Phil Brown, Curiosity in a tiny package: The joy of a small museum, The New Daily, 16 January 2026
Marcel Proust’s bed – it is not what I expected to see in a museum. But the Musee de Histoire Carnavalet (the Carnavalet History of Paris Museum) is full of surprises. And after all the author is a famous denizen of the city of light.
Proust’s bed was central to his life and work, famously where he wrote much of his seven-volume masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) in a cork-lined room designed to help with his severe asthma and sensitivity to light and sound.