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Petit Palais
(Small Palace)
Like the Grand Palais opposite, the Petit Palais is a museum built for the 1900 World’s Fair and is home to Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris (Museum of Fine Arts for the City of paris).
Its Dutuit Collection specializes in medieval and Renaissance objects d’art like porcelain and clocks, tapestries and drawings. The Tuck Collection is 18th century furniture and City of Paris itself has quite the collection of 19th century French painting and sculpture, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Colbert and Cézanne.
av Winston Churchill, Paris 8th
Tél: 01 5343 4000
Métro: #1 & 13 Champs Élysées Clemenceau; #1 & 9 Franklin D. Roosevelt
RER: Line C, Station: Invalides
Bus: Lines 28, 42, 52, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
Vélib': 8029, 8001
Admission: Free admission to the permanent collections. Admission charge for temporary exhibitions.
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm. Closed Mondays and public holidays. Late opening until 8pm on Thursdays for temporary exhibitions.
Stories about Petit Palais
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Eating in or near Museums
By John Talbott
Last Updated ( Sunday, 10 April 2011 )
Let’s start with the most popular museum in Paris, the Louvre. While the Café Marly makes a mean brownie, one can do better nearby. A great quick oyster feed can be had at the l’Ecume St-Honore on the Rue de Marche St Honore, across the street is the pork-dispensing Au Petit Theatre and in the Marche St Honore square itself – Le Point Bar, a first rate place run by Alice Bardet of the famous Tours family. Even closer is a new place, A Casa Luna (aka Casaluna) serving wonderful Pyrenees-focused food.
