PARIS E SEUS MARAVILHOSOS MUSEUS!!!
The Picasso museum is housed in one of the nicest mansions of the Marais district in Paris, built in the XVIIth century for Pierre Aubert Lord of Fontenay.
The Picasso museum is housed in one of the nicest mansions of the Marais district in Paris, built in the XVIIth century for Pierre Aubert Lord of Fontenay. The Hotel Salé which owes its name to the profession of its fist owner (a salt tax collector), changed hands very often, becoming a national literary repository harbouring the convent libraries seized during the Revolution, an educational establishment where Balzac completed his secondary schooling, the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, an exhibition room for the bronze sculptor Henri Vian etc It was made a listed building in 1968, and opened his doors as The Picasso Museum in 1985.
Devoted solely to the artist, the museum provides a unique opportunity to follow Picasso's development throughout his career, from 1894 to 1972.
The Collection
The collection was started by works the French State received in payment of death duties after Picasso passed away in 1973, then in 1990, after the death of his widow.
However, you will find that there are few paintings for the French state did not invest as did the Swiss, American and Soviet avant-garde collectors. It comprises more than 250 paintings, 160 sculptures, 1500 drawings, his entire engraving works, ceramics, etc... Contrary to the painting collection, the sculptures are unique, and contains everything of note made by Picasso including The Goal and the Bull 's Head - a cast bronze piece combining a bicycle saddle beneath a handle bar. And most interesting is Picasso's own art collection which includes primitive Nimba masks from New Guinea, Grebo masks, Iberian bronzes, sketches by Giorgio de Chirico and Degas, and paintings by Corot, Cezanne, Chardin, Renoir, Matisse, and others. Not to miss the paintings of his family and wives which are very touching and most endearing. Throughout the chronological sequence, the photographs are vital in showing this charismatic man seen at work and at play by friends and family.
During the 1930's, during the Spanish Civil War, when Picasso was going through his worst personal and political crises, you will discover such portraits like Dora Maar and that of Marie-Therese. These events played an important role in Picasso's style. A decade later, Picasso was a member of the Communist Party - his cards are on show along with a drawing entitied Staline à la Santé (Here's to Stalin), and his delegate credentials for the 1948 World Bongress of Peace. The Massacre en Coree (1951) demonstrates the lasting pacifist commitment in his work.
The modem museological accoutrements are all provided : audiovisuals and films in a special cinema, biographical and crhical details displayed in each room and a library.
Practical information
How to get there
Metro line 1 or 8 : Chemin-Vert, St-Paul, St-Sebastian
Buses : 29, 96, 75, 86, 87
Opening
April to september: 9.30 am to 6 pm
October to March: 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
La Villette Park
For the architecture alone, you should not miss visiting this ultra-modern museum. All glass and stainless steel, bridges and suspended walkways, transparent escalators and elevators, this museum has been designed so that you feel like you are in a "city of the future".
The "Parc de la Villette" is located between the Porte de la Villette and the Porte de Pantin. It is the largest Park Intra Muros of Paris. The place accomodates a complete urban project:
* the city of sciences and industry,
* the city of the Music,
* the Large Market,
* the room of spectacle of the Zenith.
Located on old the abbatoirs of Paris, the Park of the Villette is an active space, a new district of meeting, culture and leisures. Place of exhibitions, documentation, communication and search, the City presents the largest
scientific, technological projections of our time. Using the most recent techniques of audio-visual and data-processing communications, it proposes multiple and complementary activities and offers a new way of learning, of listening and of being moved so that each one remains an actor of the future world.
The Design
For the architecture alone, you should not miss visiting this ultra-modern museum. All glass and stainless steel, bridges and suspended walkways, transparent escalators and elevators, this museum has been designed so that you feel like you are in a "city of the future".
What to see
The permanent exhibition is called "Explora". This exhibit is divided into 3 main themes :
- Water as a major link between the universe and life that's why the Cité des Sciences is surrounded by water.
- Vegetation coming in three bio-climatic
- Light, source of energy of the livingworld,illuminates the exhibition space of permanent exhibitions thanks to two rotating cupolas.
The Cite des sciences allows the visitors to touch and play with various subjects of experiences such as sounds, robots, computer science, expression and behaviour, oceans, energy, light, the environment, mathematics, space. With its interactive computers, multimedia displays, videos, holograms, animated models and games, this museum permits the visitor to "explore" and discover.
An example of the chaos theory is displayed by a wheel of glasses rotating below a stream of water and the control of motion is entirely unpredictable.
Do not miss the hydroponic plants as well as the flight simulator.
Other activities at the Museum
You can also discover the planetarium, the Cinema Louis Lumiere which plays a short stereo-scopic film at 11:30am, 2pm, 3:30pm, 4pm, 4:30pm., and other exciting exhibits are the Geode, Argonaute, Cinaxe and the park itself.
There are also several cafés.
The Argonaute
Discover a real 1957 french military submarine in which you can clamber about and discover masses of facts about underwater transportation.
The Geode and the Cinaxe
The Geode shows films shot on the 180o Omnimax system, while the Cinaxe combines 70mm film shot at 30 frames a second with seats that move.
The Park
Besides the permanent exhibits, throughout the park, you can discover the temporary exhibits which talk about history and philosophy as well as science.
Walkman guide in English is available at the counter in the main hall, and includes details of the architecture, explanations for Explora and the soundtrack for the Planetarium shows.
The city of the Villette it is also:
1 The Park Designed by Bernard Tschumi the park is organized in three systems: the buildings or Madnesses mark the site and its reference marks, circulations give him which combine two perpendicular galleries, surfaces: 7 ha of meadows and sports grounds.
2. The Grande Halle
Old Market of cows of the cattle market of the
Villette, it is reconverted since 83 in general-purpose room and can accomodate more than 15 000 people
3. The Zenith Inaugurated in 1984 it is particularly devoted to the
variety and the rock'n'roll.
4. The theatre of the Villette Ancien house of the Stock Exchange it
accomodates primarily contemporary authors.
5. the City of the Music. Built by Christian de Portzamparc like a
contemporary village. It accomodates in the western part the Academy
Higher Main road of Music and Dance of Paris as well as the Museum of
the M.
Practical Information
How to get there
Metro line 5 or 7: Porte de la Villette, Porte de Pantin
Bus : PC
Opening
Open every day from 10am to 6pm,
on Sunday: from 10am to 7pm
Closed on monday, 1st May and 25th December
You can also buy a daily pass.
Since 1984, this wonderful museum houses the collection of paintings acquired by Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume. This collection has been inherited by the French State and stipulates that it should always stay together.
Set in the Tuileries Gardens, just at the southwest end, is the Orangerie. Since 1984, this wonderful museum houses the collection of paintings acquired by Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume. This collection has been inherited by the French State and stipulates that it should always stay together.
The Collection
Being that the building is small and intime and the collection complete, it is definitely worth seeing. The collection is made up of 144 paintings, mostly by André Derain. However, there are around 24 Renoirs, and about 24 of Soutines, 14 Cezannes, a dozen by Picasso and Matisse, and some by Henri Rousseau, Utrillo, Modigliani, Marie Laurencin Van Dongen, Sisley, Soutine and Monet.
And most of all, do not leave the Orangerie until you have gone to the two oval rooms, on the basement level, where there are the Waterlily series by Monet. These paintings were offered to France by Monet in 1922 and installed in the museum following his death in 1927. Argenteuil and Sisley's Le Chemin de Montbuisson, are the cherries on the cake of this visual feast. What's more, you don't need marathon endurance to cover the lot and get back to your favourites for a second look.
Practical information
How to get there
Metro line 1, 8 or 12 : Concorde
Opening
Daily : 9.45 am -5.15 pm.
Closed on Tuesdays and public holidays
Palais de Tokyo - modern art
Le Palais de Tokyo, place of emergence for modern art
Experiments and innovation
Created in January 2002 on the initiative of the Ministry for the culture and the communication, the Palais de Tokyo is a place of experimentation and innovation for modern art. Thought like a forum open to all, it offers a new manner of living art closest to its time, and answer the expectations of the public and the artists.
First institution open from midday to midnight, it proposes at the same time exposures and events with the multiple formats: Performances, conferences, projections, etc. The Palais de Tokyo also created a reception to measure with the service of all the publics, thanks to a team of mediators specialists in the new contemporary practices. Three thousand square meters of spaces for exhibition, a restaurant, a cafeteria, a bookshop and a shop make a true place of life of it.
Installed in a historical building built at the time of the International exhibition of arts and techniques of 1937 to present the collections of the national Museum of modern art and adapted by the architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the Palais de Tokyo has exceptional spaces of exhibition which place it at the row of the great international institutions dedicated to current art.
Programming
Programming at the Palais de Tokyo attests creative expansion of the contemporary world, disciplines crossed by current creation and of the many emergent expressions which draw its future of it. 'Transdisciplinaire', reagent, international, experimental and diversified, the program of the Palais de Tokyo testifies to its permanent engagement at the sides of the artists, to produce with them significant new works.
Founded and directed by Nicolas Bourriaud and Jerome Sans, the Palais de Tokyo develops its programming thanks to private partners, offering a new institutional model of financing of contemporary creation.
Palais de Tokyo in numbers
Since its inauguration in January 2002, more than 230 artists were exposed. More than 740 000 people visited the Palais de Tokyo, with an average frequentation of 15 000 visitors per month. More than three million Netsurfers visited his Web site www.palaisdetokyo.com
Opening hours
From Tuesday to Sunday, and from noon to midnight
How to get there:
By subway, Stations Iéna, or Alma Marceau
By bus (32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 82, 92)
In the RER C, Bridge of Alma,
It is enough to cross the Seine by car, park you on the central reservation of the avenue, in the streets available neighbourhood or the carparks
Annual closure on January 1, May 1 and December 25
All information at the 01 47 23 38 86
Wine Museum
200 meters from the Eiffel Tower, along the right side of the Seine River, you'll discover in Water Street, some cellars miraculously conserved, the old cellars of the Passy Abbaye.
Let's discover... 200 meters from the Eiffel Tower, along the right side of the Seine River, you'll discover in Water Street, some cellars miraculously conserved, the old cellars of the Passy Abbaye.
Some monks of the fourteenth century called "the Bonshommes" cultivated some pieces of vineyard on the top of Chaillot Hill and made their famous wine, much appreciated by the Kings, in the cellars where the "Wine Museum" is located.
Practical information
How to get there
Metro line 6 : Passy
Bus: 72
Opening
The Wine Museum is open everyday except Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Wine Museum closes every year from December 24th to January 1st
Petit Palais
Built for the 1900 World's Fair, just at the Place de la Concorde you will see two structures covered by domes of iron and glass known as the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais.
Design
With its 240 metre-long façade (entered from Avenue Franklin Roosevelt), the Grand Palais is used for various exhibitions. Part of the building is the permanent site of the Palais de la Découverte where recent scientific discoveries, interactive exhibits, some very good temporary exhibitions and a planetarium are displayed.
The Collection
The collection begins with large nineteenth-century French academic pictures like Doré's Valley of Tears, to rooms filled with fifteenth-century Flemish paintings, and Italian Renaissance works including examples by Botticelli, Mantegna and Cima da Conegliano. There are also objets d 'art, maiolica ware, ivories, and statuary. Other rooms have paintings by some of the great Dutch masters of the seventeenth century. Beyond the stairways, the rooms contain a small collection of French nineteenth-century art: there are a number of Courbet, as well as works by Corot, the Impressionists, Cézanne, Gauguin, Vuillard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. A panelled room at the end of the tour contains eighteenth-century paintings, tapestries, china and a sedan chair.
Practical information
Where to find the Petit Palais
The Petit Palais, located across the street from the Grand Palais houses the Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
How to get there
Metro line 1 or 13 : Champs-Elysées Clemenceau or Franklin-Roosevelt
Bus 28, 42, 49, 73, 80
Opening
Every day: from 10am to 5.40pm
Closed on mondays and public holidays
Delacroix Museum
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix is housed in part of the painter's apartment and studio.
The Musée national Eugène Delacroix is housed in part of the painter's apartment and studio. Delacroix moved to Rue de Furstenberg on december 28, 1857. He had left his Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette's studio to get closer to the Church of Saint-Sulpice for which he was in charge of decorating a chapel, now called the Chapel of the Holy Angels. Although seriously ill, the artist was determined to finish his work at the chapel but was unable to manage a long trip daily.
History
In order to prevent the destruction of the studio to make room for a parking garage, the Society of Eugène Delacroix was formed in 1932 on request of the painters Maurice Denis and Paul Signac. The Society was able to rent the studio then the apartment. Its purpose was to « provide for and maintain » the premises and promote Delacroix's work. In 1952, the building was put up for sale and the society -unable to acquire the premises- gave its collection to the French State in order to secure it and create a museum which became, in 1971 the Eugène Delacroix National Museum.
The Collection
The three rooms of the apartment - bedroom, living room, library - as well as the studio are open to visitors. The dining room houses the documentation which can be consulted by appointment only. The garden is also open to the public. An important part of Delacroix 's furniture was dispersed after his death. However, thanks to the descriptions given in the posthumous inventory, some pieces of furniture were acquired. It is primarily his works of art, small paintings, drawings, lithographs as well as letters and miscellaneous keepsakes which allow the visitor access to the painter's private world. In the bedroom where Delacroix died on August 13, 1863, one finds aside from family portraits, one made of Jenny Le Guillou, his faithful servant who stayed by his side at his deathbed. The beautiful Mary Magdalen in the Wilderness is exhibited in the living room along with drawings, pastels and watercolors shown in rotation because of their fragility. The studio was built according to Delacroix's plans and careful supervision.
One can see three frescoes which Delacroix painted for Valmont Abbey as well as an easel and painting tables which belonged to him. Paintings, drawings lithographs with literary, decorative or animal subjects are also exhibited.
Practical information
How to get there
Metro line 4: Saint-Germain-des-Prés
RER C : Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame
Bus: 39, 48, 63, 95
Opening
Open every day except on Tuesdays and public holidays from 9.30am to 5pm
Cité de la Musique
The public, which has long frequented the La Villette site, will discover the museum through thematic visits and events proposed by its cultural department.
The public, which has long frequented the La Villette site, will discover the museum through thematic visits and events proposed by its cultural department. Frequent visitors to the Cité constitute a novel public unused to instrument museums. Even non-music-lovers feel at home in this place : the instruments of the collection, reflecting the history of erudite Western music, but also that of popular and traditional musics, are beautiful objects born of the knowhow of instrument-makers, the symbols of a wide variety of cultures.
The Cité de la Musique is a place of teaching and learning, musical practice and listening. With the museum, it has become a place of heritage discovery, in which a broad range of artistic and cultural activities take place.
The Cité's national and international status will thus be reinforced. With its entirely computerized research and documentation center and its technical restoration laboratory, the museum is a key partner of major institutions, professional musicians, researchers and music-lovers in France and abroad. The museum's role is first and foremost to enrich, conserve and exhibit its collection of reference instruments yet it must also reflect a different approach to music.
A museum with national and international aims
Like any important museum, the Musee de la Musique is equipped with an active cultural department under the direction of a musicologist. The means of access to music are several, bookings can be single or seasonal: concerts in the museum's amphitheater (where instruments from the collections are played with optimal acoustics and respect for the heritage of the instruments), musical forums, discovery concerts, shows for the young public, museum classes, thematic cinema projections.
The cultural department is closely involved with all the Cité's activities - it is no mere isolated unit but a key element in this complex devoted to all the facets of music. It is in permanent dialogue with the Paris Conservatoire, particularly with weekly concerts known as "points d'orgue" (interludes), in the course of which students play the amphitheater's Baroque organ.
The museum is not only unique in the wealth of its instrument collections (4.500 instruments ranging from the Renaissance to the present day) it also possesses an important body of iconography (paintings, sculptures, engravings) which will greatly entrance permanent and temporary exhibitions concerning the evolution of instrument-making through changing cultural and economic contexts.
Practical Information
How to get there
Metro line 5 : Porte de Pantin
Bus : 75, 151, PC
Permanent exhibitions
Tuesday to Saturday : 12-6 p.m., until 8pm nights of concerts
Sunday : 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Closed on Monday and bank holidays
Groups visits with appointment on mornings only
Arab World Institute
The Arab World Institute, symbol of the partnership between France and twenty-one Arab countries, generates a dialogue between cultures that have been in frequent contacts for centuries and this partnership work together there, on a day-to-day basis, to rebuild their common past. It takes you on a voyage in time and space into a complex universe
Open in 1987 this original building combines the latest technology and techniques with traditional arab architecture.
The southern façade is decorated with a translucent ornament of steel reminding the moucharabiehs.
This geometric pattern is made of 240 diaphragms opening or closing according to the sun, thanks to a light-cell, to let in enough light without harming art pieces exhibited.The museum It exhibits large collection from its founding countries. Ceramics, ancient costumes, valuable parchments, bas-reliefs, white-marble statues, astrolabes (astronomical instrument and jewellery are all brought alive by the guides. These objects retrace the history of Arab-Islamic civilization.
Exhibitions
Visitors can peruse the treasures on display at their ease in a unique atmosphere of half-light and intimacy.
The library The library has over fifty thousand works and a thousand two hundred periodicals in French and Arabic, and also in German, English, Spanish or Italian. Readers are free to help themselves from the shelves. Those who prefer to make their discoveries through images and music can go down to the audio-visual center.
Music, cinema and drama
The program changes along with the large exhibitions. It includes a mixture of popular or contemporary music, festivals and seasons, dance, comedy, poetry and sketches where French intermix with Arabic in an atmosphere reminiscent of an oriental café.
Surroundings
From here you can also take a trip to the zoo in the "Jardin des Plantes" or in the "Museum d'Histoire naturelle" you can visit the "Grande galerie de l'Evolution".
Practical information
Access
Metro : line n°10, Jussieu or line n°7, Sully-Morland
Bus lines : 24, 63, 67, 86, 87, 89
Facilities to the disabled.
Opening
Every day except Monday from 10am to 7pm
Library: except on Monday and Sunday from 1pm to 8pm
Musée du Jeu de Paume
Recently remodeled, the Jeu de Paume has been transformed into an exhibition hall for contempory art.
Napoleon III authorized in 1851 the members of the circle of the Paume to build the "Jeu de Paume" under the condition that they respect the style of the Orangerie Buildings. It hosted exhibitions at the beginning of the century, and was turned into the Museum of Impressionnist in 1922. In 1987, the collection of impressionist art was transferred to the Musée d'Orsay. Recently remodeled, the Jeu de Paume has been transformed into an exhibition hall for contempory art.
Inside, the design of the staircase and the galleries and its white walls and wooden floors, emphasize the height of the building.
Practical information
Access
Metro line 1, 8 or 12 : Concorde or Tuileries
Bus : 72, 42, 52, 24, 73, 94, 84
Opening
Tuesday noon to 9.30 pm
Wednesday to Friday : 12 noon to 7 pm
Saturday & Sunday : 10 am to 7 pm
closed on monday
Informações Turismo França
Fotos
http://www.france.fr/pt/museus/museus-de-pari
Informações Turismo França
Fotos
http://www.france.fr/pt/museus/museus-de-pari
