MUSEUMS & GALLERIES OF PARIS

Paris' museums and galleries are among its highest-esteemed attractions; tourism has motivated both the city and national governments to create new ones. The city's most prized museum, the Louvre, welcomes over 8 million visitors a year.

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MUSEUMS OF PARIS: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Maison du Balzac, Musee Bourdelle, Carnavalet Museum, Catacombs of Paris, Musee Cernuschi, Musee Grevin, Les Invalides, Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Louvre Museum, Montparnasse Museum, Musee de l'Orangerie, Musee d'Orsay, Musee Picasso, Musee Rodin,

MUSEE D'ART MODERNE Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is an art museum in Paris dedicated to the arts of the 20th century. It is located at 11 Avenue du Président Wilson in the 16th district of Paris. It is located in the Palais de Tokyo constructed for the International Exhibition of Arts and Technology of 1937 ...

MAISON DU BALZAC The Maison de Balzac is a house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 47, rue Raynouard, Paris, and open daily excepts Mondays and holidays; admission to the house is free, but a fee is charged for its temporary exhibitions ...

MUSEE BOURDELLE The Musee Bourdelle is an art museum located in the 15th arrondissement at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle. The nearest metro stations are Falguière and Montparnasse - Bienvenue. The museum preserves the studio of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), a notable student of Auguste Rodin ...

CARNAVALET MUSEUM The Carnavalet Museum in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. The museum occupies two neighboring mansions: the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. By the latter part of the 20th century, the museum was bursting at the seams ...

CATACOMBS OF PARIS The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are a famous underground ossuary in Paris, France. Located south of the former city gate, the Barrière d'Enfer, at today's Place Denfert-Rochereau ), the ossuary fills a renovated section of caverns and tunnels that are the remains of Paris' stone mines ...

MUSEE CERNUSCHI The Musée Cernuschi (Cernuschi Museum) is an Asian art museum located at 7 avenue Vélasquez, near Parc Monceau, in Paris, France, specialising in China, Japan and Korea. Its collection in Asian art is second only to the Musée Guimet in Paris. The museum was founded in 1898 by Henri Cernuschi ...

MUSEE GREVIN The Grevin Museum was founded in 1882 by Arthur Meyer, a journalist for Le Gaulois, and named for its first artistic director, caricaturist Alfred Grévin. It is one of the oldest wax museums in Europe. Its baroque architecture includes a mirrored mirage room and a theater for magic shows ...

LES INVALIDES Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose ...

GALERIE NATIONALE DU JEU DE PAUME The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III. It originally housed real tennis courts; the name of this game in French is jeu de paume ...

LOUVRE MUSEUM The Musée du Louvre, or officially the Grand Louvre - in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre - is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central landmark of Paris, France and is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement ...

MONTPARNASSE MUSEUM The Musée du Montparnasse is a museum at 21 Avenue du Maine in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris. The museum opened its doors in 1998. Located at the former site of the early-1900s atelier of the Russian painter, Marie Vassilieff, the museum was founded by Roger Pic and Jean-Marie Drot as a nonprofit operation ...

MUSEE DE L'ORANGERIE The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Chaim Soutine, Alfred Sisley, Maurice Utrillo ...

MUSEE D'ORSAY The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts edifice built between 1898 and 1900. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography ...

MUSEE PICASSO The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris. The hôtel particulier that houses the collection was built between 1656 and 1659 for Pierre Aubert, seigneur de Fontenay, a tax farmer who became rich collecting the gabelle or salt tax ...

MUSEE RODIN The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. It displays works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his residence from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures ...

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