Audio GuideMusée National Picasso-Paris

Welcome to the Musée National Picasso–Paris, housed in the historic Hôtel Salé, one of the Marais district’s most beautiful seventeenth-century private mansions. Originally built in sixteen fifty-nine for Pierre Aubert de Fontenay, the building showcases baroque architecture with sculpted ornaments and ornate corridors that speak to its rich past. Over the centuries, the mansion has played many roles, serving once as an embassy and later as a school for arts and manufacturing.

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Acquired by the city of Paris in nineteen sixty-four, the building underwent a decade-long restoration from nineteen seventy-four to nineteen eighty-four before opening its doors to the public in nineteen eighty-five. This transformation helped fulfill Pablo Picasso’s ideal of a residence steeped in history and art. Today, visitors explore an exceptional collection featuring his paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, and prints, as well as decorative works commissioned from artists such as Diego Giacometti.

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Further renovations completed in two thousand fourteen expanded the exhibition space and improved amenities with modern interpretive displays and educational resources.