Blossary – Famous Museums in Paris

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In Paris, museums most often mean art. And so it follows that famous museums in Paris are of that type. The major ones are so large that it would take many hours and cause much aching of feet to see all they have on display. If you're an art lover, though, this scenario sounds like serious fun--enough to make that flight over the Atlantic worth it.

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Museum 'la vie romantique'

Located in the romantic area of the "New Athens", this house, with its courtyard, garden and two artist workshops has retained its charm. The painter Ary Scheffer currently received ...

Museum 'Zadkine '

Near 'Jardin du Luxembourg', the Zadkine museum, is nestled in the greenery of its garden full of sculptures. It offers home and workshops where Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), sculptor of Russian origin ...

Victor Hugo's house , Paris/ Guernesey

The City of Paris retains both houses Victor Hugo held the longest, the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée in Paris and Hauteville House in Guernsey. Hotel de Rohan-Guéménée became a museum in 1902, thanks to ...

'Petit Palais' , museum 'Beaux-Arts' Paris

Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 , the building of the Petit Palais, a masterpiece of the architect Charles Girault , became in 1902 the Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris . It has a ...

Jean Moulin's museum

Designed by specialist historians of the Second World War, these two museums, research centers and also documentation, explain and tell the story of three Companions of the Liberation, General ...

Galliera's palace

A few steps from the most prestigious showcases of sewing, a Renaissance palace houses the inspiration Galliera museum. Over monographic exhibitions - big names in couture, fashion figures - or ...

Museum 'Cognacq-Jay'

In the Marais, in a beautiful historical monument (XVI-XVIII centuries) hotel, the museum displays the art collections gathered by Ernest Cognacq founder stores the Samaritan woman, and his wife ...