Practical Information
Address
Avenue Winston Churchill,75008 Paris
Phone: +33(0)1 53 43 40 00
Easy Access
Metro : Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau (line 1 ou 13) or Concorde (line 1, 8 ou 12).RER : line C, station Invalides, line A, station Charles-de-Gaulle - Etoile
Bus : 42,72, 73, 80, 93
Opening Hours
Every day from 10h to 18h except on Mondays and bank holidaysTemporary exhibitions are opened until 8.00 pm on Thursdays.
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Current Events and Actualities
Capturing the Model : 300 RODIN drawings (Exhibitions)
Du 18/11/2011 au 01/04/2012Everyone is familiar with Rodin's sculptures, but what of his drawings? This exhibition at the Rodin Museum in Paris presents over 300 drawings from the last thirty years of the artist's life. In fact, in the latter part of his life, drawing became the ar
DEGAS AND NUDE - EXHIBITION (Exhibitions)
Du 13/03/2012 au 01/07/2012This is the first major exhibition to be devoted to Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in Paris since the 1988 retrospective at the Grand Palais. Degas and the nude ties in with the Musée d'Orsay's ambition to publicise the latest teachings on the great masters of
Touristic areas
Petit Palais
This museum is like a « small Louvre » and there is no doubt that you will be impressed by the richness of the collections, highlighted by the recent entire refurbishment of this 1900 palace.
Next to the prestigious Champs Elysées district, the Petit Palais can now display exceptional collections. Space is too short here to speak of all the treasures you will find, but just to name a few of them…
On the ground level, room 35 : the western medieval period is very well represented with wonderful wooden sculptures and polychromes. Between Room 25 and 30, stands the famous ‘self-portrait’ painted by Rembrandt in an oriental costume. It is the only painting ever known, representing the Flemish artist standing up. Masterpieces of Gustave Courbet (‘la Sieste pendant la saison des foins’ and ‘le Sommeil)’ can be seen in room 2 as well as Delacroix’ (including ‘Combat du Giaour et du Pacha’).
Timhotel’s tips and suggestions:
At a stones throw, down the Avenue Montaigne, you will find the Alma Bridge. You can see the statue of the Zouave, standing up against a pillar. Its 6 metre height allowed Parisians to measure the flows of the Seine.