Art history museums of the world
France

France - www.culture.fr/Groups/musees/home

• Château de Versailles, near Paris.
  • www.chateauversailles.fr/
  • In French and English. www.chateauversailles.fr/en/
  • Includes The Carriage Museum www.chateauversailles.fr/Fr/610.asp
• Cite des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris.
  • www.cite-sciences.fr/
  • In French and English www.club-internet.fr/cite-sciences/uk/html/accueil.html
• Electropolis Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy.
  • www.hrnet.fr/~Electropolis/
  • In French, English and German www.hrnet.fr/~Electropolis/ang.html
• French Ministry of Culture. www.culture.fr/:
  • Mainly in French, some English www.culture.fr/cgi-bin/cookie-test-en. See
  • Musees français en ligne, www.culture.fr/Musees/c530 (259 French museums online in French.
  • The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
    www.culture.fr/files/imaginary_exhibition.html In English and French:
    www.culture.fr/documents/musee_virtuel.html
  • Documentation, including several databases. www.culture.fr/culture/docum.htm (In French.) E.g.:
    • Joconde database of more than 190,000 records (43,000 with images) describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
      www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/pres.htm
    • MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des Musees de France (DMF).
      www.culture.fr/cgi-bin/wave.cgi?dqi=dmfdoc&icon=/documentation/icones
    • Museofile (museofile.culture.fr) - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.).
      mistral.culture.fr:8004/cgi-bin/multione/MUSEOFILE/MFnom
  • Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
    www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm
  • The Musee d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)
    www.culture.fr/culture/biac95/anglmac.htm
• Centre Georges Pompidou (www.centrepompidou.fr/english/), Musee national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)
  • www.centrepompidou.fr/musee/
• The Louvre, Paris.
  Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. (Also in French, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) See also Louvre.edu (www.louvre.edu/) educational resources (by subscription, in French), catalogue of 30,000 artworks (in French cartelfr.louvre.fr/), virtual visit www.smartweb.fr/louvre/.
  • www.louvre.fr/
• Maison d'Ampère, Musee de l'Electricite, Poleymieux.
  • musee-ampere.univ-lyon1.fr/
• Musee des arts et metiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts www.cnam.fr/museum/), Paris, and the
  Conservatoire National de Arts et Metiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)
  • www.cnam.fr/index_english.html
• Musee des Augustins, Toulouse. (In French and English.)
  • www.augustins.org/
• Musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
  • www.culture.fr/culture/bordeaux/
• Musee d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
  • www.musee-orsay.fr/
• Musee des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)
  • www.mairie-quimper.fr/musee/
• Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. (In French.)
  • www.mbar.org/
• Musee du Cheval de Courses, Maisons-Laffitte. (In French.)
  • www.maisonslaffitte.net/musee.htm
• Musee Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hatel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)
  • www.musee-rodin.fr/
• Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)
  • www.mnhn.fr/
• Musee des telecommunications: Le Radome, Pleumeur-Bodou.
  • www.telecom-museum.com/
• Museum of Asiatic Art, Nice. (In English, French and Japanese.)
  • www.arts-asiatiques.com/
• Museum of l'Emperi, Salon-de-Provence. (Also in French.)
  • www.emperi.com/Default_us.htm
• Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris. (In French and English.)
  • www.musee-legion-honneur.fr/
• Videomuseum.
  • www.videomuseum.fr/
• Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)
  • www.musexpo.com/english/
• Region Centre museums. (In French and English.)
  • www.musees.regioncentre.fr/
• Museums, exhibitions (www.paris.org/Expos/) and monuments/museums map (www.paris.org/Maps/MM/) of Paris (www.paris.org/ )
  • www.paris.org/Musees/
• Museums (www.ucad.fr/ucadgb/) of L'Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
  • www.ucad.fr/
• Maritime museums. www.min-equip.fr/france.ocean/a_musee.html
• Giverny and Vernon museums. (www.giverny.org/museums/) See also Claude Monet's garden.
  • www.giverny.org/gardens/
• Reunion des Musees Nationaux. Union of the French national museum photographs catalogue: 200,000 images from national and main regional museums.
  • www.photo.rmn.fr/