FRENCH MUSEUMS France boasts a dizzying array of museums, galleries and salons devoted to virtually any topic imaginable. In a country so replete with culture, the French enjoy spending many of their weekends in museums, so travelers to France would be well-advised to schedule their forays into this aspect of French culture on weekdays whenever possible, to avoid the crowds. In cities such as Paris (see Paris Museums), one can avoid the long lines by purchasing a carte musée (Museums and Monuments Card) in advance from the Paris Tourist Office, which grants unlimited visits and priority access to 65 locations in - and around - the City of Light. Museum Links: Maison de Jeanne d'Arc (Orléans) Musée de l'Absinthe (Auvers-sur-Oise) Musée Américain (Giverny) Musée de l'Annonciade (St-Tropez) Musée des Antiquités Nationales (St-Germain-en-Laye) Musée des Archives (Thoiry) Musée d'Art et Archéologie (Senlis) Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Provence (Provence) Musée d'Art Moderne (Céret) Musée d'Arts Décoratifs (Lyon) Musée d'Arts Décoratifs (Saumur) Musée Balzac (Saché) Musée Basque (Bayonne) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Angers) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Blois) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Chartres) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lille) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nancy) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Nantes) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Orléans) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Quimper) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rouen) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tours) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (Lyon) Musée Bossuet (Meaux) Musée des Carosses (Versailles) Musée du Champignon (Saumur) Musée du Cheval (Saumur) Musée des Cires (Chenonceaux) Musée du Compagnonnage (Tours) Musée Condé (Chantilly) Musée Daubigny (Auvers-sur-Oise) Musée David d'Angers (Angers) Musée Débarquement (Arromanches) Musée Dobrée (Nantes) Musée de l'Ecole de Barbizon (Barbizon) Musée Equipages (Vaux-le-Vicomte) Musée de la Faïence (Quimper) Musée de la Faïencerie (Gien) Musée Fesch (Ajaccio) Musée de la Figurine-Jouet (Saumur) Musée de la Gastronomie (Thoiry) Musée de Gemmail (Tours) Musée de la Guerre 1914-18 (Artois) Musée Historique (Orléans) Musée Historique d'Art Populaire (Dol-de-Bretagne) Musée de l'Huître (Cancale) Musée Ingres (Montauban) Musée International de la Chasse (Gien) Musée des Jacobins (Morlaix) Musée Jeanne d'Arc (Chinon) Musée Lambinet (Versailles) Musée Louis-Senlecq (L'Isle-Adam) Musée de la Marine (Châteauneuf-sur-Loire) Musée Matisse (Le Cateau) Musée de la Mer (Dinard) Musée Napoléon (Fontainebleau) Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame (Strasbourg) Musée de la Pêche (Concarneau) Musée Pissarro (Pontoise) Musée Poulain (Vernon) Musée du Prieuré (St-Germain-en-Laye) Musée Rambolitrain (Rambouillet) Musée Ravel (Montfort-L'Amaury) Musée de la Renaissance (Chantilly) Musée le Secq des Tournelles (Rouen) Musée Tavet-Delacour (Pontoise) Musée d'Unterlinden (Colmar) Musée de la Vénerie (Senlis) Musée la Villéon (Fougères) Musée du Vin (Chinon) Musée du Vin (Tours) Musée Vivant du Cheval (Chantilly) Net Museum (all France) Nouveau Musée - Institut d'Art Contemporain (Provence) Paris Museums Toy Museum (Alsace) Key = attractions appealing to children Videomuseum Consortium of 42 museums and public collections of French modern & contemporary art. WebMuseum Virtual exhibits and biographies of famous French painters, from the 13th century to the present. Translate this page into French [Warning: results may be hilarious!] AltaVista provides a translation feature which will re-load this page in French. Machines and software are far from perfect, as you will see, because idiomatic expressions and even certain aspects of text formatting can confuse them terribly. However, at the very least, you may get a good laugh or even be amazed at what "artificially intelligent" programs can do these days! This ring site owned by DiscoverFrance.net

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