Audio GuideMusée du Luxembourg
Museum hosting 2 annual exhibitions, focusing on 20th-century painting, photography & women artists.
Museum
Paris, France
The Musée du Luxembourg, located at nineteen rue de Vaugirard in the sixth arrondissement of Paris, welcomes visitors into a world where history meets contemporary art. It began as a royal gallery in seventeen hundred fifty, once displaying prized works by masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Titian. Over time, the gallery evolved; by eighteen eighteen it had become a venue for living artists until nineteen thirty-seven, paving the way for today’s vibrant exhibitions.
Now set in a former orangery of the historic Luxembourg Palace, the museum is managed by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Senate. Its program includes two annual exhibitions that highlight twentieth‐century painting, photography, and women artists, alongside temporary shows that explore themes like European Renaissance art, art and power, and the cultural heritage of the palace and its surroundings.
Notable moments in the museum’s past include an influential eighteen sixty-one exhibition by James Tissot, restoration work during the Paris Commune by André Gill, and visits by famed personalities such as Ernest Hemingway. Recent renovations blend its storied past with modern design.
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