Museums

The Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection — contemporary art beneath the dome

A stone rotunda crowned with a monumental glass roof, an 1889 fresco unfolding the history of world trade all around it, and, set at the centre, a great cylinder of smooth concrete that seems always to have been there. A stone’s throw from the Louvre and Les Halles, the Bourse de Commerce is one of...

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The Guimet Museum — Asia in the heart of Paris

A many-headed serpent rearing at the entrance, guardian of an Angkorian temple; the serene face of a great builder-king of Cambodia; delicate ivories buried for nearly two thousand years in Afghanistan; imperial Chinese porcelain; Japanese prints across which Hokusai’s wave comes crashing. The Guimet Museum, on the Place d’Iéna, brings together five thousand years of...

Museums

The Louvre Museum — the largest museum in the world

The Louvre Museum is the largest museum in the world, the most visited and the most famous. With encyclopaedic collections spanning millennia of creation, from the ancient Near East to the mid-nineteenth century, the Louvre is a universe in itself — a place where the Mona Lisa meets the Venus de Milo, the pharaohs of...