| These are perhaps the best known and most widely | | | | Musee Malliol. (Metro: Rue du Bac) A museum of 20th |
| visited of the Paris museums. | | | | Century art collected by Dina Viernyincluding works of |
| But Paris is also the home of many other fine | | | | Gauguin, Bonnard, Redon, Kandinsky, and others. There |
| museums that often get overlooked by the casual | | | | are permanent exhibits dedicated to Jacques Villon, |
| visitor -- museums well worth seeing and well worth | | | | Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Marcel Duchamp, and |
| adding to any visitor's itinerary Among those that | | | | to the French Primitivists. |
| should not be missed are the following: | | | | Musee Guimet. (Metro: Lena) The museum is the |
| Musee Picasso. (Metro: St. Paul) A chronological | | | | French National Museum of Asian Art. It includes |
| collection of more than 3000 works of Pablo Picasso | | | | precious art and artefacts from South Asia, Southeast |
| together with the artist's own collection of Cezanne, | | | | Asia, China, Japan and Indonesia. It also offers the |
| Degas, Rousseau, Seurat, Mattisse, and various | | | | Galleries of the Buddhist Pantheon together with a |
| personal archives. | | | | Japanese Garden and Tea Pavillion of exquisite quality. |
| Musee Marmottan-Monet. (Metro: La Muette) While a | | | | One of the last of the smaller Paris Museums, but one |
| lesser known and more recent museum, it has one of | | | | that should be first for the visitor new to Paris, is the |
| the world's largest collection of Monet's. The works | | | | Musee Carnavalet (Metro: St. Paul). This museum, |
| were provided by the physician (Georges de Bellio) of | | | | housed in the Hotel Carnavalet and an adjoining |
| Manet, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir, in 1957 and by the | | | | mansion, is dedicated to the history of Paris itself. In it |
| Monet's second son, Michel, in 1966. | | | | are both permanent and temporary exhibits highlighting |
| Musee Rodin. (Metro: Varenne) Seven acres in the | | | | the long history of Paris and its culture. |
| building, courts, and spectacular gardens of the Hotel | | | | None of the museums mentioned here would be called |
| Biron contains both bronze and plaster sculptures (e.g. | | | | large museums and certainly none of these are as |
| The 'Thinker', and 'Gates of Hell), sketches, paintings | | | | well-known as the Louve or the Musee dOrsay. But |
| and archives of Auguste Rodin. An excellent venue. | | | | each of these museums does provide a special and |
| Musee Delacroix. (Metro: St. Germain des Fres) The | | | | focused perspective of the real Paris and her many |
| works of Eugene Delacroix presented in the artist's | | | | fine artists. Certainly, none of these museums deserve |
| apartment and studio. Exhibits rotate between his | | | | to be missed by anyone visiting Paris. |
| drawings, pastels and watercolours. | | | | |