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The Marmottan Museum is one of the best collections of impressionist paints. The collection is a complete unit and very representative of this movement.
It has more than three hundred paints, pastels, watercolour and sculptures from the artists that created this movement or the ones that joined it later.
It has also 200 engraving pieces from the XIII and XVI century, bronze statues and Napoleonic paints.
It is located in an antique pavilion that was acquired by Jules Marmottan in 1882. His son, Paul, remodelled the place to make it bigger and have enough space to expose the paints, the furniture and the bronze pieces from the Napoleonic era that is still family property. When he dies in 1932, the founds of its collections are donated to the Ecole des Beaux Arts; also to the Boulogne library and his private hotel, remodelled 2 years later into this museum.
It is open every day from 10:00hs to 18:00hs. Close on Mondays, the 1st of May and the 25th of December.
Web: www.Marmottan.com
Address:
2 rue Louis Boilly
75016 PARIS
Transport:
Bus : 32, 63, 22, 52, PC
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