Musée Jacquemart-André
Édouard André (1833-1894) was the heir of a wealthy Protestant banking family. He used his fortune to collect works of art to be exhibited in his new mansion, which was Read More …
Tag: Museums in Paris
Maritime Museum in Paris
On August 11, 1858, the emperor Napoléon III arrived in Brest in his uncle’s boat, the Canot de l’empereur, rowed by twenty oarsmen, with a golden Neptune on the front Read More …
Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine
This architecture museum traces its history back to the year 1795, but in its current form it didn’t open until 2007 in the east wing of the Palais de Chaillot. Read More …
Pavillon de l’Arsenal
The Pavillon de l’Arsenal describes itself as “the centre for information, documentation and exhibition for urban planning and architecture of Paris.” They say it is “a unique place, where information Read More …
Orangerie
As the name implies, the Orangerie in Paris was originally built as a greenhouse for growing orange trees. The building is located in one corner of the Tuileries garden next to Read More …
French Army Museum in the Invalides
After my glorious military career of one year, nine months and thirteen days as a draftee in the American Army (including fifty-one weeks in Vietnam), I am not exactly what Read More …
Musée des plans-reliefs
On the top floor of one wing of Les Invalides in Paris there is an unusual museum showing twenty-eight large relief-map models that were made starting in the seventeen century, Read More …
Louvre: Hall Napoléon
When the Pyramid at the Louvre was being built in the 1980s, they also built a large underground exposition space called the Hall Napoléon, which is now used for temporary Read More …
Willy Ronis photography exhibition
This was one of those rare exhibitions that changed my whole way of looking at the world. When I came out onto the street (Rue de Ménilmontant) I had the Read More …
Jean-Jacques who?
In the ‘Quarter of the Monceau Plain’, one of the four quarters of the 17th arrondissement in Paris, there is an entire ‘national’ museum devoted to the painter Jean-Jacques Henner Read More …