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Museums in Paris
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Beaubourg Centre Pompidou
pictures of Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Located at the site of the old village of Beaubourg, this cultural centre devoted to contemporary artistic creation, owes its existence to President Pompidou (1911-1974). Completed in...

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Musée Louvre
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This former royal palace built in an ornate and imposing architectural design, is one of the largest and most...

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British Museum
pictures of British Museum The British Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. Its creation was made possible by the generous settlement of Sir Sloane, doctor and naturalist, on the British State in 1753. He...

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Musée du château de Versailles
pictures of Musée du château de Versailles A grandiose palace created in the middle of marshland by Louis XIV, the Château of Versailles was the Sun-King's stage and political instrument. Symbolically, it was the King's chamber...

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Musée Orsay
pictures of Musée Orsay This former railway station and hotel, characteristic of the Belle Epoque, now houses a museum dedicated to all forms of artistic expression (painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative...

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Musée du Quai Branly
President Chirac's project has now been opened. The new museum is dedicated to "Arts Premiers" (early indigenous arts) and arts from non-European civilisations which are not well-known....

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The Thyssen-Bornemisza museum is, along with the Prado and the museum of Reina Sofia, one of the elements confering an outstanding artistic renown on the Paseo del Prado. The...

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National Gallery
The National Gallery mainly contains paintings. The 2,000 piece collection of European paintings is divided among the building's wings. The Sainsbury wing contains northern and Italian...

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Claude Monet fundation
Given to the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts Academy) in 1966 by Claude Monet's son, the property became the fondation Claude Monet in 1980.
Claude Monet, the chef of the...

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Calouste Gulbenkian museum
The Calouste Gulbenkian museum is the greatest Portuguese museum and is worthy of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao and even of Le Louvre in France....

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Prado national museum

The Prado Museum is the greatest art gallery in the world. It houses painting collections of an amazing richness. The collections are divided into 8 sections: Spanish paintings, Flemish...

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Tate Britain
Tate Britain, which changed its name from "Tate Gallery" in order to become differenciated from "Tate Modern", possesses the most exhaustive British art collection in the world: it...

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Galleria della Accademia
The academy was founded by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo de Lorena who, in 1784, gathered in the former Hospital of San Matteo all the drawing schools. The headquarters of the...

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Rijksmuseum

This museum is really worth seeing.
In renovation until 2008, the Rijksmuseum displays the most remarkable masterpieces of Netherlands' "Great Century". You can see there the most...

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