Hôtel Salé
The seventeenth-century private mansion in the Marais chosen to house the Musée Picasso Paris.
Example
The building's rooms and staircases interrupt a simple chronology, so use the museum plan when one period matters most.
Sources: museepicassoparis.fr
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Museum architecture
Hôtel particulier
A grand private urban residence built between a street entrance and a courtyard or garden.
Collections and curating
Monographic museum
A museum centred on one artist's work, life or archive rather than a broad period or school.
Collections and curating
Acceptance in lieu
A French mechanism that allows significant works to be transferred to the state in payment of inheritance tax.
Paris museum spaces
Louvre Palace
The historic palace complex that houses the Louvre Museum and preserves layers of royal and state architecture.
