The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/all/20080513170051/http://www.aboutparisvacations.com/museums-of-paris.php


May/14/2008

Event in PARIS
from the 1 / 1 / 2008 to the 12 / 31 / 2008

Musee du Quai Branly
New museum dedicated to the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas

The city's newest museum, dedicated to the Indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas, installed in a striking new four building garden complex. Nearly ten years in the making, this elegant footbridge-like edifice designed by architect Jean Nouvel will encompass nearly 300 000 fascinating objects.
The building, which is surrounded by hundred of trees, also boasts a spectacular vertical garden featuring more than 15000 plants of 150 species. All of this makes the Musee du Quai Branly the perfect getaway for thtose wishing to momentarily escape the hurly-burly of the city while enjoying an introduction to, and understanding of the works, objetcs and artifacts of peoples and civilizations from far off lands.


Musee du Quai Branly
37 quai Branly 75007 Paris
Metro line 6 : Bir Hakeim
RER C : Champs de Mars
€ 9
www.quaibranly.fr

Events in Paris Actually or soon, all the events in Paris.
   Our selection

Hotel Tilsitt Champs Elysees
3 star hotel near Arc de Triomphe

Hotel de la Tour Maubourg Invalides Paris
Real boutique hotel in front of the Invalides, and near the eiffel tower.

Hotel Claude Bernard St Germain des Pres Paris.
3 star hotel in St Germain des Pres.

Hotel Motte Picquet Eiffel Tower Paris.
Left bank 3 star hotel, Invalides and St Germain des Pres.

Hotel ATN Opera Paris.
3 star hotel near Department stores and Opera.

Hotel Littre Paris Montparnasse
4 star hotel in Montparnasse.

Hotel Regencia Champs Elysees Paris.
4 star design hotel near the Champs Elysees

Hotel Ferrandi Left Bank Paris.
3 star hotel between Montparnasse and St Germain des Pres, in the surrounding of the Palais of Luxembourg.

Hotel Marignan Champs Elysees Paris.
4 star hotel in Paris located beetween the champs Elysees and avenue Montaigne.

  
Louvre Museum Le Louvre Museum

One of the finest museums in the world of art, art-history, and culture through the ages.
Louvre Museum Quai Branly Museum

A spectacular complex of four buildings dedicated to the arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
Orsay Museum Orsay Museum

Home to the great artists of the XIXth century - Impressionists, post-Impressionists...
Orsay Museum Jacquemart Andre Museum

Masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and of XVIIIth century French painting, presented in the a Parisian mansion.
Beaubourg Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou

Not far from Les Halles, the Centre Beaubourg or better known as the Pompidou Center,created alot of mixed feelings with its radical architectural design.
Beaubourg Cité des Sciences, La Villette Park

The largest green area in Paris, it combines areas for nature and architecture, play and leisure, exhibitions shows and debating
Invalides Invalides

The major dome of Paris hosting Napoleon's ashes is part of a majestic hospital ordered by the Sun-king. Also a museum of arms and armor from the Middle Ages to today.

arab world institute Arab World Institute

The link between Europe and the Arab world.
Carnavalet Museum It is one of the rare Renaissance museum which tells about the capital city from its origins to nowadays through arts, but also furniture, daily life...
Adress: 23 rue de Sevigné 75003 Paris.
Metro : St Paul
Tel: + 33 1 44 59 58 58
Picasso Museum Situated in the "Hotel Sale", it presents all the stages of Picasso's pictorial life but also about a hundred works made by contemporary artists and that Picasso bought. Adress: 5 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris.
Metro : St Paul
Tel: + 33 1 42 71 25 21
Jewish Museum It is a new place which has to keep, study and spread the cultural patrimony of Judaism. The "Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr" is the centre of the contempory Jewish documentation situated rue du Grenier sur l'eau. Adress: 71 rue du Temple 75003 Paris.
Metro : Rambuteau
Tel: + 33 1 53 01 86 60
Palais de la Decouverte Next to the Grand Palais, the Palais de la Decouverte introduce sciences in a simple and interactive way thanks to scientific driving forces and through numerous daily demonstrations.
Adress: avenue Franklin Roosevelt 75008 Paris.
Metro : Champs Elysees - Clemenceau
Tel: + 33 1 56 43 20 21
Museum of Mankind This museum traces the process of human evolution through series of anthropological and archeological displays.
Adress: Place du Trocadéro 75016 Paris.
Metro : Champs Elysees - Clemenceau
Tel: + 33 1 44 05 72 72
Musee Grévin (Wax Museum) This wax museum was founded in 1882. It contains tableaux of vivid historical scenes and famous contemporary figures.
Adress: 10 bd Montmartre 75009 Paris
Tel: + 33 1 47 70 85 05
Museum of Jewish Art and History It is a new place which has to keep, study and spread the cultural parimony of Judaism. The Memorial of the unknown Jewish martyr is in the centre of the contemporary Jewish documentation.
Adress: 71 rue du Temple 75003 Paris
Tel: + 33 1 53 01 86 60