France

The world's most visited museum, a royal palace turned public museum during the French Revolution. Its 35,000 works span antiquity...

A Beaux-Arts railway station of 1900 converted into the great museum of 19th century art. It holds the world's finest collection o...

The inside-out national museum of modern art, with escalators, pipes, and ducts colored on its exterior by architects Piano and Ro...

The 18th century Hotel Biron where Auguste Rodin lived and worked, left to the nation in exchange for a museum. The Thinker sits i...

The national museum of the Middle Ages, built over Gallo-Roman baths beside the Abbot of Cluny's townhouse. The Lady and the Unico...

France's museum of the indigenous arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, designed by Jean Nouvel with a vertical garden ...

Louis XIV's sun king palace, transformed into a museum dedicated to the glories of France in 1837 by Louis Philippe. The Hall of M...

A former orangery in the Tuileries Garden, built to shelter the palace's citrus trees in winter. In 1927 it opened Monet's eight m...