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  2. List of museums in Paris - Wikipedia

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    There are around 130 museums in Paris, France, within city limits. This list also includes suburban museums within the " Grand Paris " area, such as the Air and Space Museum. The sixteen museums of the City of Paris are annotated with "VP", as well as six other ones also accommodated in municipal premises and the Musées de France (fr) listed ...

  3. Museums in Paris - Wikipedia

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    The first museums in Paris were established during the French Revolution as many royal properties became nationalised. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Belle Époque period, a series of new museums were born in Paris, many of which came from personal collections donated by philanthropists. In recent decades, the city continues to ...

  4. Musée d'Orsay - Wikipedia

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    The museum officially opened in December 1986 by then-president François Mitterrand. At any time about 3,000 art pieces are on display within Musée d'Orsay. Within the museum is a 1:100 scale model created by Richard Peduzzi of an aerial view of Paris Opera and surrounding area. This model is encapsulated underneath glass flooring that ...

  5. List of most-visited museums - Wikipedia

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    Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome National Museum of China, Beijing, China British Museum, London Natural History Museum, London Metropolitan Museum, New York City National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., United States Tate Modern, London, England National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea ...

  6. Musée Carnavalet - Wikipedia

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    The idea of creating a museum of Paris history was launched by Baron Haussmann, who, under Napoleon III, was in the midst of his grand project of building new avenues, parks and squares in the center of the city. In 1866 he persuaded the city of Paris to purchase the Hotel Carnavalet to house the museum, and assembled a large collection of ...

  7. Category:Museums in Paris - Wikipedia

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    Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Paris; Archaeological Crypt of the Paris Notre-Dame; French submarine Argonaute (S636) Army Museum (Paris) Musée d'Art Dentaire Pierre Fauchard; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Musée des Arts et Métiers

  8. Musée des Archives Nationales - Wikipedia

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    The museum features exhibitions drawn from the collections of the government archives and aims to provide document-based perspective on France’s history and the evolution of French society. [1] [2] It is housed in the Hôtel de Soubise in the Marais neighborhood in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, France.

  9. List of most-visited museums in France - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most-visited museums in France in 2023, as reported as of January 14, 2024. It is based on statistics from the French Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Île-de-France region. and "Le Figaro" (January 6, 2024), and the list of the Club-Innovation & Culture published on 6 January 2024.

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