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What is the best museum in Paris?

by YPB Team

Palaces, a railway station, a bank vault of a mansion and two oval rooms built for one painter. Admission queues are not a ranking criterion here.

  1. Musee du Louvre — ranked #11
    Musee du Louvre
    The world's most visited museum, from the Venus de Milo to the Mona Lisa.
    1000pts
  2. Musee d'Orsay — ranked #22
    Musee d'Orsay
    A converted railway station holding the largest Impressionist collection anywhere.
    662pts
  3. Musee de l'Orsay Jeu de Paume — ranked #33
    Musee de l'Orsay Jeu de Paume
    A former royal tennis court, now a centre for photography and image.
    571pts
  4. Musee Carnavalet — ranked #44
    Musee Carnavalet
    The history of Paris itself, from Roman boats to Proust's bedroom.
    434pts
  5. Petit Palais — ranked #55
    Petit Palais
    A free municipal collection inside a 1900 World's Fair palace.
    376pts
  6. Musee Marmottan Monet — ranked #66
    Musee Marmottan Monet
    Holds the largest Monet collection in the world, 94 canvases, including Impression, Sunrise.
    376pts
  7. Atelier des Lumieres — ranked #77
    Atelier des Lumieres
    Projected digital exhibitions inside a nineteenth-century iron foundry.
    310pts
  8. Fondation Louis Vuitton — ranked #88
    Fondation Louis Vuitton
    Frank Gehry's glass sails in the Bois de Boulogne.
    310pts
  9. Musee de Cluny — ranked #99
    Musee de Cluny
    Medieval art in Roman baths, with the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.
    310pts
  10. Musee de l'Orangerie — ranked #1010
    Musee de l'Orangerie
    Two oval rooms built to Monet's brief for eight Water Lilies panels, 91 metres in all.
    234pts
  11. Musee Picasso — ranked #1111
    Musee Picasso
    A Marais mansion with work Picasso kept for himself.
    234pts
  12. Musee du Quai Branly — ranked #1212
    Musee du Quai Branly
    Jean Nouvel's green wall and the collections of Africa, Asia and Oceania.
    145pts
  13. Musee Rodin — ranked #1313
    Musee Rodin
    The sculptor's own house and garden, with The Thinker outside.
    0pts

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Comments

Eight panels, two metres high and 91 metres long, in two oval rooms Monet specified himself. They opened on 17 May 1927: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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