Museums
Louis Vuitton Fondation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a contemporary art museum, created by the fashion house Louis Vuitton and opened to the public in 2014. The foundation’s building, designed by architect Frank Gehry, is a work of art in itself and has become a landmark of the city. The foundation regularly hosts temporary exhibitions showcasing contemporary art, […]
Army Museum Paris
The Musée de l’Armée (Army museum) is a military museum located in the Hôtel national des Invalides in Paris, France. The Musée de l’Armée is one of the largest museums of military history in the world and contains a vast collection of French military artifacts as well as items from other countries. The museum covers the history of French […]
Museum of Aeronautics
Since the opening of the Main Gallery, where the oldest aircraft are displayed, it offers a collection of over 180 machines giving a complete panorama of the aerospace era, from the original “heavier than air” glider Massiat-Biot (1879) to the Ariane rocket. The aeronautics museum since 1975 France’s Air and Space Museum is certainly the […]
Public Care and Hospitals of Paris
It is a social museum and is the only one of its kind to relate the history of parisian hospitals from the Middle Ages to modern days. Located in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, the museum was before located in the Latin Quarter, close to Notre Dame Cathedral, the museum of “L’Assistance Publique” has occupied the premises of the […]
Cité de la Musique Paris
The public, which has long frequented the La Villette site, will discover the museum through thematic visits and events proposed by its cultural department. The public, which has long frequented the La Villette site, will discover the museum through thematic visits and events proposed by its cultural department. Frequent visitors to the Cité constitute a novel […]
Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration
This interesting museum, located at the north-west side of the forest of Vincennes, in a building designed for the Colonial Exhibition in 1931, was originally called the Museum of the Colonies, and later the Museum of Overseas France. Its facade contains a fresco depicting the contributions made by France’s overseas colonies. It houses one of […]
Museum of Hunting and Nature
The diversity of the contents of the Museum of Hunting and Animal Art (paintings, artefacts, arms and stuffed animals) makes it a particularly attractive venue, with something for all tastes, in a very fine architectural setting. In Paris, the Museum of Hunting and Nature is situated in the historic Marais district. It occupies the Hotel de […]
Quai Branly Museum – Jacques Chirac
Located on the Left bank on the Seine river at only 500 meters from the Eiffel Tower, the Quai Branly Museum Jeacques-chirac is the most recent of the major museums in Paris. Inaugurated in 2006, the modern buildings present a selection of works of art in particular from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the America.The richness of […]
Museum of Decorative Arts
The largest of the three museums in Le Louvre is the Museum of Decorative Arts. Founded in 1877, this is an enormous museum, except by the standards of the building housing it – the Louvre – of which it takes up the Tuileries end of the north wing. However, the museum is being reorganized and alterations will be […]
Jeu de Paume
Recently remodeled, the Jeu de Paume has been transformed into an exhibition hall for contempory art. Napoleon III authorized in 1851 the members of the circle of the Paume to build the “Jeu de Paume” under the condition that they respect the style of the Orangerie Buildings. It hosted exhibitions at the beginning of the […]