The Louvre, in its successive architectural metamorphoses, has dominated central Paris since the late 12th century. Built on the city's western edge, the original structure was gradually engulfed as the ... more

The museum building was originally a railway station, constructed for the Orleans Railway Company and finished in time for the Exposition Universelle (World Fair) of 1900 to the design of ... more

King Louis XIV initiated the project by an order dated November 24, 1670, as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers: the name is a shortened form of ... more

Designed by Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, the building structure is very distinctive: it has been described by critics as "an oil refinery in the centre of the ... more

The Museum of the Middle Ages is housed in two exceptional Parisian monuments: the Gallo-Roman thermes (1st-3rd centuries) and the Cluny Abbey hotel (late 15th century). It was founded in ... more

The mansion which houses the collection was built between 1656 and 1659 for Pierre Aubert, Lord of Fontenay, who became rich collecting the Salt Tax (the name of the building ... more

A commission was established to study the feasibility of building the museum in 1995. When the study was concluded, land was reserved near the Eiffel Tower for the future museum. ... more

The main building, The Hôtel Carnavalet, was built as a town house in 1548 by Nicolas Dupuis. The Hôtel Carnavalet is a Renaissance jewel that in the mid-1600s became the ... more

The "musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme" is in the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan built in 1650 for the Comte d’Avaux, Cardinal Mazarin’s superintendent of Finances. Its design, by the architect ... more

Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his residence from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures (along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he ... more

Built for the World Fair of 1900, the building shelters today part of the artistic collections of the Town of Paris. In its sumptuous rooms with the ceilings decorated with ... more

Located in the palate of Tokyo built for the international exhibition of 1937, the museum was inaugurated in 1961. Its collections, rich person of more than 8000 works illustrate various ... more

Like the museum Nissim de Camondo, it is in the beginning a particular residence of large Protestant middle-class men become a museum by preserving the initial adjustment of the places. ... more

The Museum Marmottan Monet, old hunting lodge of Christophe Edmond Kellermann, duke of Valmy, is acquired in 1882 per Jules Marmottan. His son makes his residence of it and increases ... more

A museum of open arts is built on the initiative of a Parisian ethnologist, who knew to convince the former Mayor to launch an operation of great architectural quality. This ... more

Born from the passion of a richissime industrial Lyonese, Emile Guimet (1836-1918), for the religions of traditional Antiquity and of the East, this museum, sheltered as of his creation in ... more

Newly restored, the venerable cathedral is more beautiful than ever. But if you can see her in full glory now, she still keeps many secrets she rarely or never ... more