MUSEE D’ORSAY

This museum is dedicated to the 19th century. It presents painting, sculpture, Art Deco, photography and architecture from 1848 to 1914. This is where you will see some masterpieces such as L’Olympia by Manet, La Petite Danseuse âgée de quatorze ans by Degas or L’origine du Monde by Courbet. This is also the place where you will find the major art movements of this period: the Pompous movement, the Impressionism, the Fauvists, the Nabis, the School of Pont-Aven, the Symbolism, Naturalism and of course the art nouveau with a considerable collection of ceramics, glassware, jewelry and furniture.

MUSEE D’ORSAY


1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur 75007 Paris
01.40.49.48.14
www.musee-orsay.fr

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INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE

 

Here is another magnificent building created by Jean Nouvel to accommodate an absolutely unique place in Europe dedicated to the Arab and Muslim culture. The Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) is more than a simple museum, it is a lively place where we can breathe the air of the Eastern world. An exhibition, a look round the bookshop, a mint tea, a conference … we could almost stay there all day.

 

 

 

INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE


11 rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard 75005 Paris
01.40.51.58.14
www.imarabe.org

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MUSEE DELACROIX

This museum is situated in the apartment, in the studio and in the garden where Eugène Delacroix lived until his death in 1853. You will see some beautiful paintings such as the portrait of his faithful Jenny and the gorgeous Madeleine dans le desert that Beaudelaire adored.

MUSEE DELACROIX

6 place Furstenberg 75006 Paris

01.44.41.86.50

www.musee-delacroix.fr

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MUSEE MAILLOL

When Aristide Maillol died, Dina Vierny, who was his Muse and his companion, decided to create a foundation. This foundation was inaugurated in 1995. The Musée Maillol gathers together a collection of drawings, engravings, paintings and sculptures of the artist, but also his personal collection in which we can find some works of art by Ingres, Cézanne, Matisse, Degas or Picasso.

The museum regularly organizes temporary exhibitions dedicated to antique and modern art, but also to contemporary art and to the major artists of the 20th century.

MUSEE MAILLOL

61 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris

01.42.22.59.58

www.museemaillol.com

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MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY


The Quai Branly Museum or Museum of arts and civilizations in Africa, Asia, Oceania and America, devised and designed by Jean Nouvel, is made of four buildings which are linked together by footbridges.

This cultural place is set under the patronage of the UNESCO. Its ambition is to acknowledge the major place occupied by civilizations, sometimes kept on the sidelines of the present culture of the world. This museum gives people much to see and think about.

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY JACQUES CHIRAC

37 Quai Branly 75007 Paris

01 56 61 70 00

www.quaibranly.fr

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MUSEE DE CLUNY

 

The National Museum of the Middle Ages is settled down in two exceptional Parisian monuments: the Gallo-Roman thermae (1st and 2nd centuries) and the Hotel of the abbots of Cluny (end of the 15th century). The collections enable people to go through almost fifteen centuries of art and architecture : Romanesque architecture, Gothic sculpture, paintings, stained-glass windows, the famous tapestries of the Dame à la Licorne.

 

 

The medieval garden shows the different facets of the garden as it used to be during the Middle Ages, both wild and organized.

 

 

MUSEE DE CLUNY


6 Place Paul Painlevé 75005 Paris
01.53.73.78 00
www.musee-moyenage.fr

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MUSEE BOURDELLE

The Musée Bourdelle is the studio where Antoine Bourdelle lived and worked for four years. The museum takes up the whole space: apartments, studio and garden. The place was turned into a museum in 1949. Then two expansions were made by Henri Gautruche in 1961 and by Christian de Portzamparc in 1992. More than 500 sculpted works of art are scattered over the rooms and the garden of the museum. But many temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists are also presented : Luciano Fabro, Felice Varini, Henry Moore, Alain Séchas …

MUSEE BOURDELLE

16-18 rue Antoine Bourdelle 75015 Paris

01 49 54 73 73

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MAISON DE LA CULTURE DU JAPON

 

Since its opening in 1997, the Community Arts Center of Japan has offered the public to discover all the facets of the traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, thanks to its various activities : exhibitions, live performances, cinema and courses, tea ceremony, cookery, ikebana, calligraphy, Go game, origami …

 

 

 

MAISON DE LA CULTURE DU JAPON

101 bis quai Branly  75007 Paris
www.mcjp.fr

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JEU DE PAUME

The Jeu de Paume is an artistic venue exclusively dedicated to contemporary photography, video art, experimental film and documentary essay.

The Jeu de Paume produces, co-produces and houses exhibitions, film festivals, conferences, educational activities and publications. It also supports internet creation hosting web-based projects on its website.

The history of the place is quite eventful: it was created in 1862 during the 2nd Empire as the first Parisian venue dedicated to the practice of the racket game regarded as the precursor of tennis. So as to keep a sense of aesthetic continuity, it was modelled after the neighbouring building, l’Orangerie. The early 20th century saw the rise of tennis and the venue was transformed into an exhibition gallery. From 1922 to 1929, it served as an annex of the Musée du Luxembourg. During World War II, the Jeu de paume was used as storage and sorting house for stolen artworks and it housed impressionist artworks between 1947 and 1986 before the Musée d’Orsay opened along with the Louvre.  Finally in 2004, it became dedicated to supporting photographic creation and image.

JEU DE PAUME 


place de la Concorde 75001 Paris

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PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS

Académies, a school, a style, known and imitated in the whole world ; The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts is the heiress to a long history, started with the foundation of the Royal Académies of painting and sculpture in 1648 by Louis XIV, then of architecture in 1671. This institution is one of the latest to house under the same roof a modern education intended for the formation of future artists and collections made of 450 000 works of art, accumulated during its three hundred and fifty years of existence, which are also presented in  exhibitions inside the school.

ECOLE NATIONALE DES BEAUX-ARTS

13, quai Malaquais  75006 Paris

01.47.03.50.00

www.ensba.fr

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Galerie ZLOTOWSKI

An essential gallery for lovers of modern art and the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century. If it is a reference gallery for the pictorial work of Le Corbusier, whose pictorial work it has contributed to the rediscovery by devoting a number of exhibitions to him, the Galerie Zlotowski has also extended its field of action to the middle 60s with artists like Jean Arp, Victor Brauner, Pol Bury, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Simon Hantaï, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger or Kurt Schwitters.

Permanently presented artists : Willi Baumeister, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Sonia Delaunay, Jean Dubuffet, Albert Gleizes, Simon Hantaï, Auguste Herbin, Sheila Hicks, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Sol LeWitt, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Eugene James Martin, Robert Michel, László Moholy-Nagy, Vera Molnar, François Morellet, Robert Motherwell, Georges Noël, Amédée Ozenfant, Serge Poliakoff, Kurt Schwitters, Antoni Tàpies, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Georges Valmier, Victor Vasarely, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva

Galerie ZLOTOWSKI

20 rue de Seine   75006 Paris

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MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG

It was Marie de Medici who had the Luxembourg Palace built between 1615 and 1630. In 1750, it became the first French museum open to the public, with nearly 200 paintings on display, before becoming in 1818, the “museum of living artists” Where Parisians can discover the creations of painters like David, Ingres or Delacroix. After many years of sleep, due in particular to the creation of other museums in Paris but in 2000, the Senate decided to remake the museum a living place and it is a success because the Musée du Luxembourg is again an essential place of the Parisian cultural life. A place apart, which has no permanent collections, but organizes, twice a year, exhibitions, always exceptional, by borrowing from French and foreign museums to create thematic exhibitions, or by resuming exhibitions presented in the other European capitals: Pissarro, Titien, Fragonard, Cézanne, Cranach or the Italian Renaissance and the Tudors have thus passed by.

MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG


19 Rue de Vaugirard 75006 Paris
01 42 34 25 95

www.museeduluxembourg.fr

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