A couple of days ago at the Louvre Museum in Paris, got a most exciting visit with my 6.5x21 Papilio, which are terrific museum binoculars.
Vermeer, Hieroglyphics*, Greek statuary, a new world of detail and hidden beauty.
*Talking about birds, if you haven't already done it, go and check the amazing importance of birds in Ancient Egypt mythology (and the many birds in hieroglyphics, drawn to a perfectly recognisable level of detail, be it an ibis, a hoopoe or a vulture. Speaking of vultures, I was amazed to learn that the vulture is a symbol of the mother, its name "mwt" was the word to say mother, and the bird was a mother deity of utmost importance.
All pictures taken with a smartphone handheld against the Papilio eyecup.