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Orangerie Museum
The Orangerie Museum (Musée de l’Orangerie), situated inside the Tuileries garden, is a little museum with surprising collections. They are particularly emphasized by the Water Lilies (Les Nymphéas) by...
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Rodin Museum
This museum, one of the most popular ones in Paris, is indeed exceptional for more than one aspect: its collection, which assembles all the biggest works of the artist; its garden, real open-air...
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Orsay Museum
It is in this quite unusual museum (the building was a railway station till the mid 20th century) that you will discover one of the most prestigious art collections worldwide. All great artists from...
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The Victory of Samothrace
The Victory of Samothrace is one of the most famous masterpiece in the Louvre. A majestic statue whose wings spread and the clothes swirling in the wind are superbly highlighted by the grand staircase....
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July 28 : Liberty Leading the People
It is one of the most famous French works, and yet its history, as well as its representations, remain unknown. Perhaps because no other painting has succeeded in transcending eras and freeing itself...
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The Louvre is full of treasures. In addition to its world famous classics, hundreds of pieces deserve to be discovered for their history, witnesses of ancestral arts or forgotten civilizations. Among...
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Paleontology and comparative anatomy gallery
Belonging to the Museum of Natural History (which includes, among others, the Great Gallery of Evolution or the Jardin des PLantes), the gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy offers to...
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The Atelier des Lumières
Opened in 2018 in the Saint-Maur district (11th arrondissement), the Atelier des Lumières offers an original experience to discover art through temporary exhibitions. The place, a former foundry,...
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The Coronation of Napoleon’s secrets (Louvre Museum)
Grandiloquent and monumental masterpiece (six by ten meters) by the official painter of Emperor David, the Coronation of Napoleon, exhibited at the Louvre, is both a historical testimony and a total...
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The sculpture at the origin of the name of the district of La Défense
It is a rather unknown fact, but the district of La Défense, one of the most important European business districts, takes its name from a sculpted group posed in the 19th century, when the high towers...
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Ugolin and his sons, the most beautiful sculpture in Parisian museums ?
Less known than some of the great French sculptors, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux nonetheless remains one of the most important (and influential) artists of the 19th century, widely exhibited in Parisian...
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The extraordinary journey of the heads of the kings of Judah (Cluny museum)
At the Musée de Cluny-Musée du Moyen-Age (which will reopen in spring 2022 after) are exposed heads with extraordinary history. Created in the 13th century to decorate the King’s gallery of Notre-Dame...
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