Museums of Paris

The French National Bibliotheque (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) BNF - is also know as the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand...

The former 16th century mansion situated in The Marais district of Paris and bought by the City of Paris in 1866 for its historical collections, the Musée Carnavalet offers the visitor a large collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints and decorative arts on the history of Paris since its origins to the present time...

CENTQUATRE is a place of artistic creation and artistic production in Paris...

The Centre Pompidou, called as well Beaubourg, was born in February 1977 to focus on all forms of modern and contemporary creation: sculpture, painting, books, cinema, video, performances, music...

Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, (National city of the history of immigration) is a public corporation located the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris...

Discover a completely renovated Grévin Museum in Paris. Experience the Spirit of Paris of yesterday and of today with astounding scenes : the major events of the 20th Century, French history and. the latest news

The Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine is a new kind of cultural institution and the biggest architectural centre in the world...

Largest museum of France, The Louvre Museum ( Le Musée du Louvre in french) presents collections of western art from the Middle Ages to 1850, and the antique civilisations that have preceded and influenced this art.
They are divided into 8 departments : Oriental Antiquities, Islamic Art, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities and, for the modern period, Paintings, Sculptures, Art items, Prints and Drawings until 1848.

Built on the occasion of the International Exhibition of 1937, the Museum of Modern Art (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris) was officially opened in 1961. Temporary exhibitions form a major part of the museum's activity....

Musée de l'Orangerie: The world’s most famous water lilies — the ones painted by Monet — have a refurbished home at this museum, which reopened in May 2006 after six years of renovations...

Resulting from the fusion of the collections belonging to the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD) and the Union Française des Arts du Costume (UFAC), the Musée de la Mode et du Textile is the heir to a tradition forged by the dynamics of private initiative...

In the Museum of the Perfume - le Musée de la Parfumerie - Fragonard, in french, discover the history of perfume from the Egyptians to the nineteenth century through bottles, pots-pourris, incense burners, paintings, test tubes...

The Arts Décoratifs manage four museums: the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, the Musée de la Publicité and the Musée Nissim de Camondo....

The Musée National du Moyen-Age in french is located in the Gallo-Roman baths and the Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny (15th century): houses antique sculptures and one of the richest mediaeval collections in the world. Medieval garden...

The Orsay Museum - Musée d'Orsay: artistic creation of the western world from 1848 to 1914.

The Palais de Tokyo, an art deco building that dates from 1937, reopened in 2001 after new interior design by french architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal who selected rough and ready style (concrete floor, wall and roof)...

After a five-year expansion project, the Beaux Arts-style Museum, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris reopened its doors in 2005...

The Musée Picasso is situated in the heart of historic Paris, and has a collection of several thousand works of Pablo Picasso...The Musée Picasso is temporarily closed for renovation. It will open again in 2012!!

Quai Branly Museum: The arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas in the same museum in Paris...

Rodin Museum in Paris : Bronze and marble works by Auguste Rodin