Le Petit Palais



Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, this museum presents works since Antiquity until end of the XIXth century. The collections are organised in two major parts : the ancient art fund (French, Flemish, Renaissance, XVIIIth century art) and the XIXth century French art fund (Dor?, Delacroix, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec...).

Le Petit Palais (Mus'e des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris)

5, avenue Dutuit - Paris 8

open: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

closed: Monday and bank holidays

Permanent exhibition FREE

late night opening: Thuesday (8 p.m.) during temporary exhibitions

M'tro : Champs-Elys'es-Clemenceau (lines 1/13) or Concorde (lines 1/8/12)

l'Atelier Brancusi (The Brancusi Workshop)

L'Atelier Brancusi is a reconstruction of the workshop, with original furnitures and tools, of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. You can discover most of his sculptures (finished but sketches too) in their original spirit : Brancusi was preoccupied by the relation between sculptures and space.

L'Atelier Brancusi

Beaubourg Piazza - 19, rue Beaubourg - Paris 4

open: 2 pm to 6 pm

free entrance

closed: Tuesdays and May 1st

M'tro : Rambuteau (line 11) / ch?telet les halles (RER)

Free entrance (in the permanente exhibition) first sunday of the month

Le Louvre

Most famous museum of Paris, and one of the largest in the world, Le Louvre presents a permanent collection of 35000 works (Archeology, Decorative Arts, Jewellery, Furniture, Painting, Sculpture, Textile, Graphic art...) since High Antiquity (-7000) until 1850.

Mus'e du Louvres

Pyramide - Cour Napol'on

34, 36 quai du Louvre ? Paris 1

open:

Museum: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. (except Monday, 1/01, 1/05, 8/05, 15/08) Pyramid: 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Closed : Tuesday, 1st January, 1st May, 8th May, 25th December

Museum late night : opening on Wednesday, Friday (10 p.m.)

M'tro : Palais Royal ? mus'e du Louvre (lines 1,7)

Mus'e Picasso

Located in a beautiful mansion : the ? h'tel particulier ? Sal?, the Picasso Museum presents more than 3000 works of the artists including paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics etc.

Mus'e Picasso

H'tel Sal? - 5, rue de Thorigny ? Paris 3

open :

Summer : April 1st - September 30 : 9.30 a.m. ? 6.00 p.m.

Winter : October 1st - Mars 31 : 9:30 a.m. ? 5:30 p.m.

closed: Tuesday, 01/01

M'tro : Saint-Paul / Saint-S'bastien Froissart / Chemin Vert

Mus'e des thermes de Cluny (Museum of medieval art)

The museum, located between the gallo-romans ruins and a medieval hotel, presents master works of the medieval art and in particular the famous tapestries called The Lady with the Unicorn (? La Dame ? la licorne ?).

Mus'e national du Moyen ?ge - Thermes et h'tel de Cluny

6, place Paul Painlev? - Paris 5

open : 9.15 a.m. - 17.45 p.m.

closed : Thuesday, 1st January, 1st May, 25 December

M'tro : Cluny-La Sorbonne / Saint-Michel / Od'on

Mus'e d'Orsay

Originally a train station built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900, this museum is dedicated to all artistic production (Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Furniture, Cinema, Photography etc) from 1848 to 1914.

Chronologically the collections presented in the Musee d'Orsay are before the one of the Louvre and after the one of the Mus'e d'Art Moderne Beaubourg.

Mus'e d'Orsay

62, rue de Lille ? Paris 7

open : 9.30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

closed : Monday, 1st January, 1st May, 25th December

late night opening: Thursday (9.45 p.m)

M'tro : Solf?rino (Line 12)

Mus'e Rodin

This museum, located in a XVIIIth century mansion, presents sculptures (marble, bronze, plaster etc) but also drawins from the sculptor Auguste Rodin. In addition, works from others artists, coming from the personal collection of Rodin, a exposed too. Few master works (and especally the famous Thinker) are exposed in the garden.

Mus'e Rodin

77, rue de Varenne ? Paris 7

M'tro : Varenne, Invalides, Saint-Fran?ois-Xavier

Open :

Winter (October - March): 9.30 a.m. - 4.45 p.m.

Summer (April - September) : 9.30 a.m. - 5.45 p.m.

Closed : Monday, 01/01, 01/05, 25/12

Mus'e des arts asiatiques-Guimet

Major center for the knowledge of Asian civilizations, this museem presents one of the largest collection in the world (45000 objects), of all types of Asian art and in particular an amazing collection of archeology and antics objects.

Mus'e des Arts asiatiques - Guimet

6, place d'I'na - 19, avenue d'I'na - Paris 8

open : 10 a.m ? 6 p.m.

closed : Tuesday

M'tro : I'na (9)

Mus'e National d'Art Moderne (Beaubourg)

Well known for his curious architecture , the Pompidou Center is a great cultural Center. It contains the Mus'e National d'Art Moderne which presents works since 1905 until present time. The museem is divides in two majors sections : moderne art (since 1905 until 1960) and contemporary art (since 1960 until now).

Mus'e National d'Art Moderne

Beaubourg Piazza ? Paris 4

open : 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.

closed : Tuesday, 1st May

M'tro : Rambuteau (11) / ch?telet les halles (RER)

Le ch?teau de Versailles

Commissioned by Louis XV The Ch?teau de Versailles was the official residence of the royal court until the french revolution.

Considered as the high point of French art and architecture during the 17th and 18th centuries The Ch?teau de Versailles is the prototype of French classical art. The gardens, designed by Le N'tre, represents the quintessence of the ? jardin ? la fran?aise ?.

Ch?teau de Versailles

open :

summer : April 3t - October 31 : 9 a.m. ? 6.30 p.m.

winter : November 1st - April 2d : 9 a.m. ? 5:30 p.m.

closed: Monday, May 1st, May 28th, December 25th

By train :

RER ligne C

direction Versailles-rive-gauche-ch?teau

from Montparnasse station

train SNCF direction Versailles-Chantiers

from Saint-Lazare station

train SNCF direction Versailles-rive-droite