Liege

We decided to head to Liege with friends on Saturday, and check out the Arms Museum. The museum is in an old house that was built in the late 1770's. During the French occupation, Napoleon Bonaparte stayed here twice. Pierre Joseph Lemille, and arms manufacturer and collector, bought the house in 1858. After his death, the city of Liege bought the house and opened it as a museum. It's a beautiful old house, and the museum is very impressive. (You'll have to excuse the pics in this case, because the museum doesn't allow any flash photography.) Can you imagine the work involved to pull this crossbow back and get it ready to fire? Talk about a work out!These rifles have a flint trigger. They are called flintlocks, and were very cool. There was a very large and impressive collection of them in the museum. The museum had a little something for everyone, and not just weapons. There were lots of beautiful statutes as well. One of these had a strange object on her foot. Must be something artistic. We had a super day with great friends. We tried to check out a few antique stores, but luckily for the guys, they were closed. That just means we have to head back another day. More adventures are on the horizon...