Paris for Museum-Lovers

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a historic monument and an architectural wonder in Paris, France. It is the world's largest and most visited art museum with a vast collection of more than 480,000 objects and works of art. It is best known for its iconic glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and being the home of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous painting, Mona Lisa. A central landmark of the city...

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1914, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world, ...

The Centre Pompidou also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high- tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers, Su Rogers, Renzo Piano, along with Gianfranco Franchini. It houses the Bibliotheque publique d'informa...

Les Invalides is an extensive complex of buildings and structures designed for the care and housing of disabled veterans and as a place of worship. Today Les Invalides also house a few museums and monuments dedicated to the military history of France such as Musee de l'Armee, the Musee des Plans-Reliefs, the Musee d'Histoire Contemporaine, and a shrine for some of France's leading military figures...