The painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Even for those of us who are not particularly fascinated by Symbolist painting in general or Gustave Moreau in particular, his house in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, now the Read More …
Tag: Museums in Paris
Musée de la Vie Romantique
This museum is about The Romantic Life, but not “romantic” in the sense of people falling in love and giving each other flowers. Rather it is about a group of Read More …
The House of Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), author of the many books comprising La Comédie Humaine, lived in this house in Passy for seven years in the 1840s. He did not own the Read More …
Petit Palais art museum in Paris
The Petit Palais (Small Palace), like the Grand Palais just across the street, was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. Since 1902, the Petit Palais has been the home Read More …
Musée Guimet
The Musée Guimet is a highly respected museum of Asian arts, founded in Lyon in 1879 and moved to Paris in 1889. It is located in this listed building on Read More …
Delacroix Museum in Paris
The painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) had an apartment, studio and garden in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of the sixth arrondissement in Paris for the last five-and-a-half years of his life, while Read More …
The Grand Gallery of Evolution
For many years this was just called the Zoology Building, but in 1994 they did a complete re-launch and changed the name to La Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, which is Read More …
Musée des Arts et Métiers
This “Museum of Arts and Occupations” in Paris shows the history of technology from the eighteenth century to the present day. The word Arts in the name refers not to Read More …
Museum of Jewish Art and History
This museum in the Marais district of Paris is devoted to Jewish artworks and historical artifacts, mainly from France but also from other European countries and from North Africa. Unfortunately Read More …
Rodin Museum in Paris
The sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) lived and worked in the Hôtel Biron in Paris for the last decade of his life. (The word Hôtel is used here in the old Read More …