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Head to this museum to discover over 600,000 items relating to the history of France, ranging from a prehistoric dugout canoe from 4600 BC to street signs and scale models of its ancient monuments ...
The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
Arte (/ ɑː r ˈ t eɪ /, French pronunciation:, German: [ˈaʁtə]; Association relative à la télévision européenne (Association relating to European television), sometimes stylised in lowercase or uppercase in its logo) is a European public service channel dedicated to culture.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Musée Marmottan Monet (English: Marmottan Museum of Monet) is an art museum in Paris, France, dedicated to artist Claude Monet.The collection features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise.
The Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner is a French art museum dedicated to the works of painter Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905). It is located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris at 43, Avenue de Villiers. The museum is housed within an 1878 hôtel particulier designed by architect Nicolas-Félix Escalier .
In June 2008, its endowment was $827 million. As of 2012, the museum is rated A1 by Moody's, its fifth-highest grade, in part reflecting the museum's pension and retirement liabilities; Standard & Poor's rates the museum A+, fifth-best. In October 2012, the Art Institute sold about $100 million of taxable and tax-exempt bonds partly to shore-up ...
But Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7-8, mark the official opening ceremony, scheduled for about 7 p.m. in Paris (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) with the opening of the doors, a religious ceremony and a concert ...