{"id":2026,"date":"2021-10-31T16:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2024-03-30T09:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:19:49","slug":"relief-maps-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/relief-maps-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relief Map Museum in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Relief Map Museum<\/a> (M<em>us\u00e9e des Plans-Reliefs<\/em>) in Paris is one of my favorite sights anywhere. It has about 30 big, meticulously detailed scale models of towns, ports and forts and their surrounding landscapes. The models were built for military planning purposes from the 1670s to the 1870s.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2026 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"Plans-reliefs L1040058 web\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040058-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040058-web-150x113.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040058-web-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040058-web-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040058-web-768x576.jpg 768w, 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https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040083-web.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>In another room they show how they made the models, for example, grass and foliage were made of silk fibers trimmed into tiny bits using this device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040085-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2009\" title=\"Plans-reliefs L1040085 web\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040085-web-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040085-web-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Plans-reliefs-L1040085-web-150x113.jpg 150w, 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It has about 30 big, meticulously detailed scale models of towns, ports and forts and their surrounding landscapes. The models were built for military planning purposes from the 1670s to the 1870s. In another room they show how they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/relief-maps-paris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Relief Map Museum in Paris&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,11,10],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-museums","category-paris","category-travel","tag-history-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}