Museum↕ | Focus↕ | Opened↕ | Annual Visitors (M)↕ | Highlight↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Louvre | Universal art history | 1,793 | 8.9 | Mona Lisa | World's most-visited museum, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory, IM Pei pyramid entry |
Musee d'Orsay | Impressionism 1848-1914 | 1,986 | 3.9 | Van Gogh self-portraits | Converted Beaux-Arts train station, Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas ballerinas |
Centre Pompidou | Modern and contemporary art | 1,977 | 3.3 | Kandinsky collection | Inside-out architecture by Piano and Rogers, Europe's biggest modern art collection |
Musee Rodin | Auguste Rodin sculpture | 1,919 | 0.7 | The Thinker in the garden | Hotel Biron mansion, sculpture garden with The Gates of Hell, The Kiss |
Musee Picasso | Pablo Picasso works | 1,985 | 0.55 | Self-Portrait 1901 | Hotel Sale in the Marais, 5,000 works given in tax payments by heirs |
Musee de l'Orangerie | Impressionist/post-Impressionist | 1,927 | 1 | Monet's Water Lilies cycles | Two oval rooms built for Monet's nymphs, Walter-Guillaume collection |
Musee du quai Branly | Indigenous art of Africa/Asia/Oceania/Americas | 2,006 | 1.3 | Living wall by Patrick Blanc | Jean Nouvel building, non-Western art, near Eiffel Tower |
Musee de Cluny | Medieval art | 1,843 | 0.3 | Lady and the Unicorn tapestries | Roman thermal baths foundations, Gothic sculpture, 2022 renovation |
Musee Marmottan Monet | Monet and impressionists | 1,934 | 0.3 | Impression, Sunrise | Largest Monet collection in the world, quiet 16th arrondissement setting |
Fondation Louis Vuitton | Contemporary art | 2,014 | 1.2 | Gehry's glass sails | Frank Gehry building in Bois de Boulogne, blockbuster loans (Morozov, Rothko) |
Musee de l'Armee | Military history | 1,905 | 1.2 | Napoleon's tomb | Les Invalides dome, armor collections, WWII galleries |
Musee Jacquemart-Andre | Old Masters in a mansion | 1,913 | 0.35 | Tiepolo ceiling fresco | Belle Epoque private home, Italian Renaissance, famous tea room |
Palais de Tokyo | Contemporary art | 2,002 | 0.6 | Large-scale installations | France's biggest contemporary kunsthalle, late-night opening, no permanent collection |
Musee de l'Homme | Anthropology and human origins | 1,938 | 0.3 | Gallery of the Human | Trocadero Palais de Chaillot, evolution-focused redesign in 2015 |
Musee Carnavalet | History of Paris | 1,880 | 0.4 | Proust's bedroom | Free entry, two Marais mansions, revamped 2021, signs of Paris shop |
Bourse de Commerce - Pinault | Contemporary art | 2,021 | 0.55 | Urs Fischer wax figures | Francois Pinault collection, Tadao Ando inner cylinder inside old commodities hall |
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