Wall Street Jounral Feature by By Judy Fayard – Excerpt: The Aga Khan was the driving force behind the new Musée du Cheval, which opened last month, replacing the smaller Living Horse Museum in the Grandes Écuries.
The living horses are still very much there, some 30 of them—Spanish, Lusitano, Arabo-Friesian, Percheron, Black Forest, Welsh and Shetland ponies—residing in their elegantly appointed stables along with their mascot donkey, Séraphin, and they still perform regular equestrian shows in the arena under the dome. But the museum is entirely new and completely delightful, with 15 small, stone-walled, wood-beamed galleries taking visitors from the evolution of wild equine precursors and the history of domestication to jeweled saddles, carousels, carriages, film clips and artworks depicting horses at work, at war and at
Source Château de Chantilly: A Canter Through History – WSJ.com.
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