The Museum of arts of Lyon is located in a former Benedictine convent on the Terreaux square. From 1988 to 1998, the Museum underwent major renovation works. Its collections, which embrace a period between the ancient Egypt and modern art, make it one ... Read more

The Museum of Gallo-Roman civilization is located in Lyon, near the Roman theatres, on the Fourvière Hill, which is situated at the heart of the city of Lugdunum. The Museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions. Lugdunum (Lyon), capital of the province of Lyonnaise, was an important and prosperous Gallo who ... Read more

Antibes was founded in the fifth century BC by phoceans of Marseilles, it remained one of the places of trade and passage of the Mediterranean Basin until the Middle Ages. Besieged in the sixteenth by Charles V, François ler and his ... Read more

After the bankruptcy of the bank Kahn in 1932 following the 1929 crisis, the property of Albert Kahn is seized in 1933. In 1936, it has gained, as well as the Archives of the Planet, by the prefecture of the Seine. ... Read more

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts), was inaugurated in Paris on May 29, 1905 in the Marsan wing of the Louvre palace. The museum presents a chronological offering a comprehensive overview of Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages to ... Read more

The National Centre for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement welcomes the public since 1977. It was born on the willingness of the President Georges Pompidou to create on the heart of Paris, a cultural institution devoted entirely original ... Read more

Jacques Kerchache, art dealer and specialist in African art, try the early 1990's to enter the "primitive arts" at the Louvre. In 1990 the same year, he met Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris. The latter passioned for primitive arts, was ... Read more

The hotel Carnavalet is raised from 1548 on a request from Jacques Ligneris, president of the Parliament of Paris at the time. The opening of the Carnavalet Museum takes place in 1880 and offers 400,000 years of history in Paris at the ... Read more

The museum's collection Cognacq-Jay was gathered between 1900 and 1925 by businessman Ernest Cognacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay. The couple spent part of his fortune to buy works and objects of art, with a predilection for the eighteenth century french. ... Read more

The Musée Guimet des Arts Asiatiques (museum of Asian Arts) was established at the initiative of Emile Guimet (1836-1918), industrialist and scholar from Lyon. Thanks to travel to Egypt, Greece, then a world tour in 1876, with stages in Japan, China and ... Read more