Major Paris Museums and Galleries (2)

Paris: Museums and Galleries

Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet
Musée Picasso
Musée Rodin
Maison de Victor Hugo
Espace Dali à Montmartre
The Claude Monet Foundation at Giverny

Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet
2, rue Louis-Boilly, Paris, France 75016
tel: 42-24-07-02
www.marmottan.com

Métro : Muette (Line 9 : Pont de Sèvres – Mairie de Montreuil)
RER : Boulainvilliers (line C)
Open: Tue-Sun 10am-5:30pm
Entry: Adult €7.00, Student (under 25) €4.50, Child (under 8) Free

Initially devoted to the First Empire, Napoleonic paintings, furnishings and bronzes, the Marmottan Museum has now become an impressionist shrine, and holds the world’s largest collection of works by Claude Monet, as well as the outstanding Wildenstein collection of illuminated miniatures.

Musée Picasso
Hôtel Salé, 5, rue de Thorigny, Paris, France 75003
tel:
42-71-25-21
www.musee-picasso.fr

Metro: Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Filles du Calvaire
Open:
Apr-Sep Wed-Mon 9:30am-6pm;
Oct-Mar Wed-Mon 9:30am-5:30pm
Entry: Adult €9.50, Student €7.50, Child (under 18) Free

Housed in Hôtel Salé, built in the 17C for a man who collected the salt tax, hence its name. Not only Picasso (over 3,000 works) but also his personal art collection (Cézanne, Le Douanier Rousseau, Matisse).
The restored hotel has a beautiful garden.

Musée Rodin
77, rue de Varenne, Paris, France 75007
tel: 44-18-61-10
www.musee-rodin.fr

Metro (line 13): Varenne, Invalides or Saint-François-Xavier
RER (line C): Invalides
Bus: 69, 82, 87, 92
Open:
Apr-Sep Tue-Sun 9:30am-5:45pm;
Oct-Mar Tue-Sun 9:30am-4:45pm
Entry: Adult €6, Child (under 18) Free

Located in the Hôtel Biron. Among the items on display are "The Hand of God", "The Thinker", "The Gates of Hell" and "The Kiss". Sculpture Gardens are an attraction. A very inviting museum, a charming garden and outdoors café, with the most famous sculptures by Rodin (The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, etc..); do not miss the sculptures by his mistress Camille Claudel.

Maison de Victor Hugo
Hôtel de Roham Guéménée (southeast corner of Place des Voges)
6, place des Vosges, 75004 Paris.
Tel. 42 72 10 16 Fax 42 72 06 64

Métro: Bastille, Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert.
Bus: 20, 29, 65, 69, 76 abd 86
Open: 10 am – 18:00 pm daily. Closed Mondays and bank holidays.
Entry: Free for the permanent exhibitions.

Victor Hugo lived here from 1832 to 1848, and you can see reconstructions of certain rooms of different houses occupied by Victor Hugo for which he chose the decoration. The author’s life story is told through collections of drawings, paintings, and documents. The restored dining room includes Chinese furniture Victor Hugo chose for Juliette Drouet’s house in Guernsey.
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