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One thing I adored at the Musée d@Orsay was the miniature equivalent of the V&A - the furniture and room sets right at the back left if you're standing under the clock. It goes all teh way up (or down - we started at the top) and has all sorts of stuff on the development of furniture styles, the Eiffel Tower as a style icon and loads of other quirky things. And at the very back on the ground floor is a scale model of part of Paris, under thick glass so you can walk on it. Oh, and a superb scale model of the Opera, cut away so you can see all the effects machinery. It's so unexpected in a place stuffed to the gills otherwise with Ded Famus Paintings.

My personal favourite Leonardo in the Louvre is a little St John the Baptist, with a trademark grin and finger pointing upwards.