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The most visited art museum in the world.

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Louvre Museum

Le Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre), the first state museum of France, has been attracting more than 10 million people a year, both with the physical additions and the enrichment and classification of existing art collections, since the day it was opened to the public in 1793 following the French Revolution. The most visited art museum in the world. The Louvre Museum, also known as the largest museum in the world, hosts more than 350 thousand works in an area of ​​73 thousand square meters. You need 73 days to visit the entire museum when you want to examine each piece of art exhibited in the museum for 1 minute. The works of famous artists such as Raphael Rosso and Primaticcio are exhibited in the painting collection of the museum in the museum, which is known for Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

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Orsay Museum

Orsay Museum, which we can call the temple of Impressionism, with 6 special collections and temporary exhibitions, is the third most visited museum after the Louvre and Center Pompidou, and is the tenth museum in the world ranking. The Orsay Museum building, which is an old train station on the left bank of the Seine River, exhibits French works of art between 1848-1915; He is known for his extensive Impressionist collection. There are works of artists such as Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Degas and Paul Cezanne, representatives of the impressionism and post-impressionism movements, in the museum, where sculptures, paintings, furniture and photographs belonging to this period, each of which are masterpieces, are exhibited. The most important works of the museum are Rodin's Gates of Hell, Manet's Dining on the Grass, Paul Gauguin's La Belle Angele and Claude Monet's Blue Water Lilies.

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Marmottan Monet Museum

Marmottan Monet Museum, where the works of the impressionist painter Claude Monet, who said, "Maybe I owe being a painter to flowers", are exhibited, is home to the artist's largest collection in the world. In the museum, you can see the works of other impressionist artists such as Pissarro, Renoir, Manet and Degas, as well as the 'Garden of Monet'. There are works of Claude Monet in the basement of the museum, which consists of two floors and a basement. The most popular work of the museum, Impression, Soleil Levant (Impression, Sunrise) is also located in this hall. In the museum shop, located on the ground floor of the museum, there are a variety of souvenirs brought to life by works of art.

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The Bourdelle Museum

The Bourdelle Museum (Musée Bourdelle) is located in the building where the works of the famous sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who also served as Rodin's assistant for a while, were used as both his home and workshop in the past. While more than 500 sculptures are exhibited in the museum, sculpture workshops are given on certain days of the week. Stating that he imitated his master Rodin for years, but after a point, he started to produce works in his own style, Bourdelle has worked with more than 500 students throughout his life. Cleopatre Sevasto, who came to education from Athens, became the biggest supporter of Bourdelle in his education, which he started as an apprentice. In this relationship, which was soon crowned with marriage, Bourdelle's museum-house idea was brought to life by his wife after the artist's death.

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Jacquemart-Andre Museum

Jacquemart-Andre Museum (Musée Jacquemart-André), Musée Jacquemart, a museum where collectors Edouard Andre and his wife Nelie Jacquemart are exhibiting the works of art they collected from different parts of the world throughout their lives, is also the house where the Andre family lives. In the museum, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Bellini, Botticini, Luca Signorelli, Cima da Conegliano, Pietro Perugino, Neri di Bicci, Vittore Crivelli, Luca della Robbia, Paolo Uccello, Canaletto, Jean-Marc Nattier, Alfred Boucher, Quentin Massys There are oil paintings by famous artists such as , Anthony van Dyck, Frans Hals, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jacques-Louis David.

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Dali Museum

Located in the center of Paris, the Dali Museum (Espace Salvador Dali) is the house where Salvador Dali lived until his death and is dedicated to the surrealist artist after his death. Many drawings, caricatures, sculptures, engravings and paintings of Dali are exhibited in the museum. The museum, which has the distinction of being the only permanent exhibition in France, where more than 300 works are exhibited, is located at the top of Butte Montmartre. On its two floors, in addition to home seminars, meetings and press conferences; It is also used for events such as dinners, gala and cocktail parties, incentive programs, workshops and business-art therapies.

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Center Pompidou

Center Pompidou, which serves as a culture and art center, is a design award-winning structure brought to life by architect Richard Rogers. Indeed, it has a mind-blowing architecture and an exterior where every color means something. Center Pompidou, with its valuable collection of works by modern and contemporary artists, you witness contemporary art, modernist, surrealist and cubist works in the museum, which is divided into two floors as before and after 1960. The most famous works of the center, which hosts more than 60 thousand works by more than five thousand artists, are Henri Matisse's Violinist in the Window (1917), Georges Braque's La Duo (1937), Dix's Portrait of Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926), Duchamp-Villon's Le Cheval Majeur (1914).

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Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum (Musée Rodin) has existed as a museum exhibiting the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin since 1919. It is possible to see Rodin's best-known works such as The Thinker and The Kiss. The sculptor, who donated all his works to the French Government in return for the building's transformation into a museum, has been living in Hotel Biron since 1908. Among the donated works is a special room with paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as works by Camille Claudel. The museum, which looks like a tiny castle, is worth seeing even with its impressive architectural structure. There is also a workshop next to the building, which is located in a lush garden with a pool and sculptures.

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