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Museums in France

Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.

Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris. (In French and English.)

Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy. (In French, English and German.) French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French, someEnglish.) See:

The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition. (In English and French.)

Documentation, including several databases. (In French.) E.g.:

Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.

MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).

Muséofile - national database of

French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.). Also searchable by location, collection type and services offered.

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.

The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon.

Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created using new technologies. (In French and English.)

Centre Georges Pompidou,Musée national d'art moderne. (Alsoin French.)

The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with themost famous painting in the world.(Alsoin French, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) See alsoLouvre.edu educational resources (by subscription, in French),virtual visit, andhere.

Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)

Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. (In French and English.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. (In French.)

Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and English.)

Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)

Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence. (Also in French.)

Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris. (In French and English.)

Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)

Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)

Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.

Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).

Maritime museums.

Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.