Not Only Louvre, These 8 Museums Are Also Mandatory For You To Visit Paris

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Paris, apart from being known as the 'City of Love', is also known as a city that has a variety of museums. There are about a hundred museums in Paris showing off paintings, statues, photography, contemporary art, science, and collections of various subjects.

To help you choose and not miss some of the best museums, VOI, quoted from the Conde Nast Traveler page, Thursday, October 12, offers a brief summary of the eight most visited museums in the French capital.

The first museum in Paris was Petit Palais. Petit Palais is a 'adik' of Grand Palais. But don't be fooled, the building is still quite magnificent. Designed by Charles Girault for the 1900 World Exhibition, this building became a museum in 1902.

Its architectural splendor reflects Paris' art and city, which originally houses murals and decorative statues. The museum does not set an entry price, so many visitors come just to enjoy the calm and warmth of sunlight in the park.

As one of the art galleries in Paris that is privately owned and funded (by LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault), Forason Louis Vuitton made success when it opened to the public in 2014. Canadian-American star architect Frank Gehry designed a building that looks like a sailing boat, floating on an artificial lake in the Bois de Boulogne. Thanks to his spectacular architecture and his best-selling show, the museum is always busy at all times, although its location is far from 16th Arrondissement.

Musmen Picasso is a museum showing off artistic objects by artist Pablo Picasso. Located in the heart of the city of Marais, this museum is right to be used as a stopover after being satisfied with shopping or tasting French food in a nearby restaurant. Although there is another single museum of artists in Paris, the combination of Picasso's fame and beauty of its location makes this museum one of the best.

The museum, which is owned by the Institute of de France, presents a collection of art that deserves to be used as a large museum in the magnificent Second Empire mansion. Often compared to the Frick Collection in New York, Jacquemart-André maintains the atmosphere of its mansion which makes it a unique museum in Paris.

By visiting this museum, visitors can see 19th-century living rooms, ceremonial rooms, monumental stairs, winter parks, private apartments, and many more.

Impresionism's art collection is the focus of Mus way d'Orsay, the second most visited museum in Paris after the Louvre. Here, you will be spoiled with other works from pop culture or art history. Each room in this museum deserves to be explored, so let yourself be immersed with the great work of well-known artists such as Degas, Cézanne, Manet, Renoir, and Monet.

It took only twenty minutes to walk from the crowd of the Eiffel Tower, The Rodin Museum, located in an 18th-century classic home called HZEL Birin, located behind Les Invalides on 7th Arrondissement.

Consisting of two cream-colored floors, the museum faces seven hectares of rural grass, rose garden, and a row of perfectly trimmed trees with Rodin carvings.

Although many consider the park in this museum to be a star of performance, the newly renovated interior space is no less beautiful.

The large windows that stretched from floor to ceiling and flooded the rooms with light displayed perfectly the statues of Rodin that had been restored, antiques, and paintings from his personal collection.

If you go for a walk in the Tuileries park, you'll see L'Orangerie right on the edge, which can be seen from Place de la Concorde and is located in a former greenhouse. A more intimate scale refutes the stunning art contained in it. Among the most famous works is Monet's "Nymphreas", the lotus painting he contributed to the country in 1918. In addition, there are many choices of Post-Impressionist works, including Matisse, Modgliani, and Picasso.

Carnavalet is the oldest city museum to tell the story of Paris from ancient times to today with its collections that are varied and large. Although it is basically a historical museum, Carnavalet remains an art gallery that exhibits most of its original works. With about 600,000 exhibitions spread across more than a hundred rooms, Carnavalet houses the largest overall collection in Paris.

There are various exhibitions: ranging from archaeological remains to past Paris views, ancient monument-scale models, road signs, decorative elements of lost buildings, historical or anecdotal scenes, portraits of prominent Paris figures, mementos of famous figures or depictions of everyday life, as well as unique collections devoted to the times of revolution.