Paris Museums
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Museum of Music
Offers everyone access to culture through its concerts, museum and exhibitions and documentation centres as well as educational and publishing activities aimed at both adults and young people
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Louvre Museum
The Louvre houses Western art from the Middle ages to 1848 (paintings, sculptures, objets d'art and Prints and drawings), and art from antique civilizations (Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities.
Houses the famous Mona Lisa. Also features the famous giant seven by five metre canvas of ¨The raft of the Medusa¨ by Gericault.
This is a horrific, dark, desolate image of suffering, brilliantly composed and mitigated only by the caption, which tells you that they were eventually rescued.
Musee du Louvre, 8eme +33 (0)1 4020 53 17 VISIT THE SITE
Musee D´Orsay
Housed in what was the Orsay station, this national museum opened in 1986. Focuses on 'the artistic creation of the western world from 1848 to 1914' and has inherited collections from the Louvre and the Jeu de Paume.
1 rue de la Legion d´Honneur, 3eme +33(0)1 40 49 48 14 VISIT THE SITE
Musee Jacquemart-Andre
One of Paris´s loveliest small museums, the Musee Jacquemart-Andre features a superb collection amassed by Edouard Andre, an immensely wealthy banker, and his wife, Nelie Jacquemart, a women of fantastically discerning taste. Together they successfully bid against major museums for works of Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Titian, Tiepolo, Uccello and French painters such as David, Chardin, Boucher and Fragonard.
Musee Jacquemat-Andre, 158 blvd Haussmann, 8eme +33(0)1 45 62 1159
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Musee Marmottan Monet
Houses arguably the most important collection of Monet's works, most of which were created in his garden at Giverny. Several works by Gauguin and Renoir also on display here. Nestled between the Bois de Boulogne and the quaint Jardin du Ranelagh
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Musee De Carnavalet
Housed in two mansions and is dedicated to the history of Paris. Has more than 100 rooms showing archeological remains from prehistoric to modern times.
23 rue Sévigné +33 (1)0 44 59 58 58
Musee National Picasso Paris
Houses a small collection of Picasso's famous paintings, sculptures and Picasso´s hoard of African masks, given to the state by his heirs. They are housed in an elagent 18th century hotel in the Marais district.
Musee Picasso, Hotel Sale, 5 rue du Thorigny, 3eme +33 (0)1 42 71 25 21 VISIT THE SITE
Rodin Museum
The Government acquired the Hôtel Biron in 1905 and Rodin rented the ground floor from 1908 onwards. From that moment, the sculptor, backed by his closest friends, was determined to turn the Hôtel Biron into a museum devoted to his works.Centre Pompidou
Built in the late 1970s, this modern center has one of the world's largest collections of modern and contemporary art. The undoubted highlight of the museum is its fine set of canvases by Matisse.
Place Georges Pomidou, 1er +33 (0)1 44 78 12 33 VISIT THE SITE
Maillol Museum
Dina Vierny was the model of the sculptor Aristide Maillol and henceforth became the most important figure in his works. The Maillol Museum also exhibits many large collections of modern art to include Degas, Picasso, Suzanne Valadon, FoujitaParis.org
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