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Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: pl Georges Pompidou, Paris 75004
This modern building – with its color-coded mechanical systems highly visible on the exterior – has become an icon of modern architecture. Within, the Musée National d'Art Moderne has an impressive collection of French and international modern and contemporary art and design from 1914 to the present, including impressive holdings by Matisse,...
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: 5-7, rue de Fourcy, Paris 75004
This museum, located in a restored 1706 mansion, features classical architecture in its façade, ironwork, and impressive central staircase. Original period prints, retrospective exhibits, and more than 12,000 rare books number among the attractions. There's also a conservation and restoration area, as well as a café in the 18th-century basement.
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: 11, av du Président Wilson, Paris 75116
This museum housed in an imposing 1930s building carries the municipal collection of avant-garde art from the 20th century to the present, including works by Picasso, Léger, Delaunay and Modigliani, with a focus on painters working in Paris in the early 20th century, on the rise of abstraction and on European contemporary art. Also on-hand is...
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: 1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris 75007
This mammoth iron-and-glass former railway station built to bring visitors to the World Fair in 1900 was transformed into an art museum in 1986. The museum's holdings date from 1848 through World War I, showcasing the world's largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings and sculptures, by such luminaries as Monet, Manet,...
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: rue de Rivoli, Palais du Louvre, Paris 75001
The world's largest, richest collection of art and antiques occupies the Louvre, the world's largest museum and a one-time royal palace. Originally built in 1190 as a fortress, part of which can be viewed in the basement, the Louvre began taking its present form during the 16th century under Renaissance monarch François 1er, whose successors began...
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: 2, rue Louis-Boilly, Paris 75016
For years, this wonderful institution was a repository for illuminations, Renaissance tapestries, and First Empire furniture, artwork, and objects. However, thanks to a 1966 gift of more than 100 Monets, the museum's focus expanded, and its attendance increased. Impressionism is now a great draw, and aside from Monet's works, visitors can browse...
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: 79, rue de Varenne, Paris 75007
This museum, set in the Hôtel Biron, is a tribute to one of the world's finest sculptors. Thanks to Rodin's own donations, the facility offers a wealth of objects, including terra cotta, bronze and marble creations. Plaster and wax studies are available as well, along with his sketches, drawings, engravings, and his own collected art. Among the...
Category: Art Museums - Paris Attractions & Activities
Address: Paris
Paris Muse offers a fabulous service, leading expert, private guided tours of Paris's art museums. Guides are actually art historians with vast experience, most are native English speakers with fluent French. Tours are booked to suit your schedule, and while there are pre-planned options, the company will tailor everything to your own individual...
