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| Museum of the Louvre
The museum of the Louvre, palate of kings de France, museum for more than two centuries, has sheltered one of the richest public collections of the world.
Founded in 1793 by the French Republic, the museum of the Louvre constitutes, with Ashmolean Museum (1683), the museum of Dresden (1744) and the museum of the Vatican (1784), one of the whole first museums European.
The collections of the Louvre gather œuvres dating from the birth of the great ancient ages of the Mediterranean basin until the Western civilization of the high Age Means to first half of the XIXe century, thus affirming its encyclopaedic vocation.
Its collections are divided into 7 departments:
Eastern antiquities, Egyptian Antiquities, Greek Antiquities, étrusques and Roman Antiquities, Paintings, Sculptures, Objets d'art and Graphic arts of the Average Age up to 1850.
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Museum of Orsay
Typical example of a reconversion successful, the museum of Orsay was arranged in the old station of Orsay, built by Victor Laloux and inaugurated in 1900 at the time of the World Fair. The station was used like such until 1939.
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 The museum was inaugurated by François Mitterrand, December 1, 1986 after an interior refitting by Gae Aulenti.
This multi-field museum is devoted to the whole of the artistic production of 1848 to 1914, one short period but of an exceptional richness (end of the romanticism, académisme, realism, impressionism, symbolism, nabis). Its collections, which are located between those of Louvres and those of the national museum of modern art of the Center George Pompidou, represent all the forms of expression, painting to architecture, while passing by the sculpture, arts decorative, photography etc.
You can admire heads of œuvre like, the Church of Auvers on Oise of Van Gogh, Angélus de Millet, the Dance of Carpeaux, Olympia and the lunch on grass of Manet, the ball of the mill of wafer of Renoir, the series of the Cathedrals of Rouen de Monnet
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National museum of Modern art (Mnam)
With its creation in 1976, the Center upsets the French cultural landscape by integrating the national Museum of modern art of the Palate of Tokyo and the Center of industrial creation (CCI).
The museum shelters contemporary Collections (Works of 1960 to our days) and historical Collections (Works of 1905 to 1960). The topics approached are:
Decorative arts, History, Industry, Literature, Furniture, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Architecture
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