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The museum was created in 1937 by Georges-Henri Rivière as the French section of the Trocadéro's Musée de l'Homme, in the basement of which it was open in 1951. In 1969 it moved to its own building, designed by architect Jean Dubuisson and set beside the Jardin d'Acclimatation (Porte des Sablons) in the Bois de Boulogne.
Museum entrance. La Piscine (French for "the swimming pool") is a museum of art and industry, located in the city of Roubaix in northern France.It is more formally known as La Piscine-Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent or Le musée d'Art et d'Industrie de la ville de Roubaix, but its common name derives from the fact that it is housed in a former indoor swimming pool, with a notable ...
It is adjacent to the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, bordering on Neuilly-sur-Seine. [3] More than 1.4 million people visited the Louis Vuitton Foundation in 2017. [4] The actual cost of the museum, initially projected to be €100 million, was revealed in 2017 to have been nearly eight times ...
The Jardin d'Acclimatation (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ daklimatasjɔ̃]) is a 19-hectare (47-acre) children's amusement park in the northern part of the Bois de Boulogne in western Paris, alongside other attractions. [1]
Musée des Monuments Français, Galerie Davioud. The Musée national des Monuments Français (French pronunciation: [myze nasjɔnal de mɔnymɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ], lit. ' National Museum of French Monuments ') is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, France.
Initially, the museum shared the premises of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, [4] in a building designed by Charles Burguet. [5] In 1980, the Archaeological Society of Bordeaux signed an agreement with the city of Bordeaux to deposit the majority of its collections at the Museum of Aquitaine.
The Bois de Vincennes, on the eastern edge of the city, is the largest park in Paris. The Bois de Vincennes has a total area of 995 hectares [2] (2,459 acres), making it slightly larger than the Bois de Boulogne, (846 hectares / 2,091 acres), the other great Parisian landscape park located at the western side of the city. [3]
The Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (French pronunciation: [myze daʁ kɔ̃tɑ̃pɔʁɛ̃ də ljɔ̃]) is a museum devoted to contemporary art, located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, in the Cité Internationale, next to the cinema, in front of the Parc de la Tête d'Or. It had over 42,000 visitors in 2007.