Museums in France

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Fondation Claude Monet is a nonprofit organisation that runs and preserves the house and gardens of Claude Monet in Giverny, France. With a total of 530,000 visitors in 2010, it is the second most read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Grenoble Archaeological Museum is a museum located on the historic site of Saint-Laurent in Grenoble, between the river Isa¨re and the hill of the Bastille.

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Matisse Museum (Musee Departemental Henri Matisse) is a museum in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France that primarily displays paintings by Henri Matisse. The museum was established by Matisse himself on 8 November 1952; he also defined read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM) (French: Musee des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranee) is a national museum located in Marseille, France. It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Musee de l’Orangerie is an art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Gardens next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Though most famous for read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Grand Palais des Champs-elysees, commonly known as the Grand Palais (English: Great Palace), is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-elysees in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. The Musee du quai Branly (French pronunciation: [myze dy ke banli]), in Paris, France, features the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection has 450,000 objects, of which read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Musee des Arts Decoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts), a museum of the decorative arts and design, located in the Palais du Louvre’s western wing, known as the Pavillon de Marsan, at 107 rue de Rivoli, read more

This content is only available in English. Please suggest a new version in your language. Located on the island of Sainte-Marguerite, the Maritime Museum housed in a fortress, is the highest point of the archipelago Lerins, on a hill emerging from the water, facing the Bay of Cannes. The island read more