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Next door, the Musée National
de la Marine covers French naval
history from the 17th century
onwards, with interesting
18th-century models of ships and
sculpted figure-heads. The Musée
des Arts et Métiers displays the
world of science and industry,
invention and manufacturing.
The Palais de la Découverte
covers the history of science and
has a good planetarium, some-
what over shadowed by the
specta cular one at the Cité des
Sciences in the Parc de la Villette.
This mus eum is on several levels,
The living room of La Roche Villa by Le Corbusier (1923) with an IMAX 3D movie screen,
the Géode.
entomology, anatomy and
Science and Technology
botany, plus a zoo and a
In the Jardin des Plantes, the botanical garden. In the Palais Finding the Museums
Muséum National d’Histoire de Chaillot, the Musée de Cité de l’Architecture et du
Patrimoine p202
Naturelle has sections on l’Homme is a museum of Cité des Sciences pp240–41
palaeontology, minerology, anthro pology and prehistory. Crypte Archéologique pp86–7
Fondation Le Corbusier pp246–7
Fondation Louis Vuitton p247
Hôtel de Guénégaud p105
Hôtel de Soubise p105
Musée Antoine Bourdelle p180
Musée de l’Armée p190
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judaïsme p105
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris p205
Musée des Arts Décoratifs p132
Musée des Arts et Métiers p105
Musée Carnavalet pp96–7
Musée Cernuschi p235
Musée Cognacq-Jay p98
Musée de la Contrefaçon p204
Gabrielle (1910) by Renoir Musée Dapper p204
Musée Eugène Delacroix p140
out of doors and encouraged rejected all his life, Degas sold Musée Galliera p205
others to follow his example. only one painting to a museum, Musée Grévin p220
At the 1874 exhibition, a critic and Sisley died unknown. Musée Guimet p204–5
Musée Gustave Moreau p235
wrote that one should stand well Of the great artists whose Musée de l’Homme p203
back to see these “impressions” – genius is now universally Musée Jacquemart-André p211
the further back the better – recognized, only Renoir and Musée du Louvre pp122–9
and that members of the Monet were ever acclaimed Musée Maillol p191
establishment should retreat in their lifetimes. Musée Marmottan-Monet p247
Musée de Minéralogie p175
altogether. Other exhibitors at the Musée de la Monnaie p143
show were Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Musée de Montmartre p228
Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Musée National d’Art Moderne
Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne. pp110–13
Musée National de la Marine p203
There were seven more Musée National du Moyen Age
Impressionist shows up to 1886. pp154–7
By then the power of the Salon Musée Nissim de Camondo pp234–5
had waned and the whole Musée de l’Orangerie p133
Musée d’Orsay pp146–9
direction of art had changed. Musée Picasso Paris pp100–101
From then on, new movements Musée des Plans-Reliefs p190
were defined in terms of their Musée de la Poste p180
relation to Impressionism. The Musée du quai Branly pp194–5
leading Neo-Impressionist was Musée Rodin p191
Musée Zadkine p180
Georges Seurat, who used Muséum National d’Histoire
thousands of minute dots of Naturelle pp168–9
colour to build up his paintings. Palais de la Découverte p210
It took later generations to fully Palais de Tokyo p205
Pavillon de l’Arsenal p102
appreciate the work of the Petit Palais pp210–11
Impressionists. Cézanne was Profile of a Model (1887) by Seurat Pompidou Centre pp110–13
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