What are the three major art museums in Paris? What are the characteristics of each?

  1. Musee d 'Orsay is a national museum, located on the left bank of the Seine, across the river from the Louvre and the Tuileries Gardens, and is one of the three major art treasures in Paris today. Housed in a train station designed by architect Victor Laloux for the 1900 World's Fair, the museum focuses on Western art created between 1848 and 1914, including Renoir's Garett Mill ball, Van Gogh's self-portrait and Monnet's blue water lilies.


Features: Architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, film, decorative arts are all on display here. The Orsay Museum exhibits a wealth of art works on three floors in chronological order. Most of the paintings on the first floor are from before the 1870s, with Impressionism and post-Impressionism on the Upper Level and naturalism and symbolism on the middle level.

  1. The Louvre is located on the north bank of the Seine River in the center of Paris, France, ranking first among the world's four major historical museums, the world famous art palace, one of the largest art treasures, and the palace of Treasures.


Founded in 1204, the Louvre was originally the royal palace of France, living 50 French Kings and queens, is one of the most precious buildings in the French Renaissance, famous for its rich collection of classical paintings and sculptures, is now the Louvre Museum, after more than 800 years of expansion and reconstruction to reach today's scale.

Features: The collection of paintings in the Louvre Museum is incomparable to the world's art galleries in its completeness and preciousness. The collection includes the statue of Venus, the oil painting of Mona Lisa and the stone statue of the Goddess of Victory, which are known as the three treasures of the world. It has an art collection of more than 400,000 pieces, including six categories: sculpture, painting, fine arts and crafts, Ancient Orient, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece and Rome.


From ancient Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman art, to the Eastern countries of the art, there are medieval to modern sculpture works, as well as a surprising number of royal curios and paintings and so on. The Louvre Museum is famous all over the world, not only for the richness and preciousness of her exhibits, but also for the fact that the museum itself is an outstanding art building.

  1. The Pompidou Center, full name of the Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture, is a modern art museum located on the right bank of the Seine in the Beaubourg district of Paris, France, and is often referred to as "Beaubourg" by locals.


Designed by Renzo Piano in Italy and Richard George Rogers in the UK, the Pompidou Centre was officially started in 1972 and completed in 1977, and the building itself is a masterpiece of 20th century art: Made of steel and glass pipes, the exterior wall is full of colorful pipelines and steel trusses, making the whole building like a construction site, perched in the elegant and beautiful ancient buildings of Paris, it is abrupt and strange, and the glass pyramid in front of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre.

Features: The whole building is divided into four parts: industrial design center, public information library, modern art Museum and music and vocal music research center. It is a new and modern treasure house of knowledge, art and life. Here, people can absorb knowledge, appreciate art and enrich life through modern technology and means, and it is the first free library in France.


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