Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris
When this building opened in 1977, Parisians were genuinely horrified.
Les Invalides & Napoleon's Tomb
129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris
Louis XIV built this complex in 1670 as a hospital and retirement home for wounded soldiers, and it still serves that purpose today — making it one of the oldest veterans' institutions in the world.
Musée d'Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 7th Arr., Paris, 75007, France
This is what happens when you save a train station from the wrecking ball: you get the most beautiful museum in Paris.
Musée de Cluny
28 Rue du Sommerard, 75005 Paris
This museum is built on top of Roman Paris, and you can literally walk through both time periods.
Musée de l'Orangerie
113 Rue de Rivoli, 1st Arr., Paris, 75001, France
Claude Monet spent the last decade of his life painting eight massive water lily murals, and then he designed the rooms to hold them.
Musée Rodin
77 Rue de Varenne, 7th Arr., Paris, 75007, France
Auguste Rodin moved into the Hôtel Biron, an elegant 18th-century mansion, in 1908 when it was a run-down building rented out as artists' studios.
The Louvre
1st Arr., Paris, France
The numbers are staggering: 380,000 objects, 35,000 on display, 72,735 square meters of gallery space.
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