Musée d’Orsay
The Orsay Museum was championed by French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing. It opened in 1986 in the former Orsay train station. This enormous building was…
Musée Rodin
The Rodin Museum has an excellent location just steps from the Eiffel Tower and the Invalides complex. This lovely mansion was the artist’s final residence…
Institut Giacometti
The institute is located in a listed Art Deco mansion and hosts a reconstruction of Alberto Giacometti’s workshop, unseen plaster and clay pieces, furniture, and…
Fondation Cartier
This contemporary art foundation is housed in an all-glass building designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel. Every year, the foundation purchases works from artists,…
Panthéon
With a façade bearing the inscription “To the great men, the grateful homeland”, this grandiose building is the final resting place of the nation’s heroes. It…