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Musée Picasso
In the Marais district of Paris, the Musée national Picasso-Paris occupies a mansion whose history began more than three centuries before it became a museum. Known as the Hôtel Salé, the building brings together the legacy of a seventeenth-century fortune and the work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists. The mansion was […]
The Louvre Museum
The exterior of the Louvre reveals the long history of a building that was never created according to a single plan. Its courtyards, wings, pavilions and richly ornamented façades developed over centuries as successive rulers altered and expanded the structure to reflect their own needs and ambitions. The story began around 1190, when King Philip […]
Musée d’Orsay
When we traveled to France as a family around 1997, Paris offered an almost overwhelming number of historic buildings, monuments, churches, and museums to explore. Among all the places we visited, the Musée d’Orsay became one of our favorites. It combined an extraordinary collection of art with a building whose own history was as memorable […]
