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    3.5 (2 reviews)

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    MuséoParc Alesia - Roast Beef Poke Bowl

    MuséoParc Alesia

    4.7(6 reviews)
    34.4 km

    During my visit, I experience good customer service; employees are kind and helpful with…read morecomprehending coordinating and layouts of the facilities as well as menu options. One ticket seems good for two days (unless there is a time limit feature that I just happen to meet criteria for). There are two sites about 3 kilometers from each other. Due to the timing of my visits, I enjoy one site thoroughly. The museum offers so many interactive elements of play and participation which makes the experience quite fun. Still, you can just walk through the museum and read the details, if you like, though, keep in mind, the museum offers so much more to do between the indoor and outdoor areas. I'm only talking about one site offering different levels of immersion. There is a restaurant. The Roast Beef (one of a few options) Poke Bowl is delicious; the roast beef has a ginger-like dampness that tastes as though the dampness comes from fresh beets; the cucumber slices are so fresh, crisp, and juicy; the pepper in the middle is so flavorful with no spice, wet with a dampness that only asks for one to taste its purest offerings of flavor with or without anything else, enjoy; the egg slices mesh well with the other options offering a colder drier texture; the other vegetables offer crisp subtle contributions; and, the grain (bleu?) is quite dry and greatly benefits from the sweet-savory-sour hinting balsamic vinegar. The establishment accepts different forms of payment.

    We visited in Sept 2021, shortly after the museum had completed a renovation. To our surprise we…read morespent over two hours going through the displays and the outside reproduction of some of the battleworks; (using the same ticket) we then spent 30 minutes at the nearby uncovered ruins of a Gallo-Roman village. We learned A LOT. Due to the renovation, handheld tablets and audioguides are no longer offered in the museum. Instead there are several short videos (in French with English and German subtitles) and many static displays (again in French with English and German subtitles). (A visitor to the ruins can use a tablet or a printed guide.) The short videos provide an excellent overview of the Roman conquest of Gaul, and of the Siege of Alesia. There is also a section that discusses the use of the Gaullic "image" in past advertising to sell products within France, and how the legacy of Vercingetorix was used during WW2 by both the Vichy French government and by the Resistance. The design of the museum is in harmony with the subject matter. This includes the top floor, where one can do a 360 degree walk and see the actual battlegrounds of the siege and the position of the Roman camps, the Gaullic relief force, and the besieged town. (There is a restaurant at the museum. We had lunch there to save time. Food was just ok, coffee (from machine) awful but caffeinated, and service impatient.)

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