Musée Picasso, Art museum in Le Marais, France.
The Musée Picasso is an art museum in the historic Le Marais district of Paris, presenting around 5,000 works by the Spanish painter in a 17th-century townhouse. The collection spans several floors and includes paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and drawings.
The building opened as a museum in 1985 after extensive renovation, following a 1968 French law allowing inheritance tax payments through artworks. Heirs of the artist used this option and transferred a major portion of his estate to the state.
The mansion hosts the French national collection, which emerged from inheritance tax payments by the artist's heirs and reflects a particularly close connection to his Parisian years. Visitors see not only paintings but also his ceramic works from southern France, offering a more direct view into his daily life.
The museum sits on Rue de Thorigny 5 in Le Marais and opens Tuesday to Friday at 10:30, on weekends at 9:30. Exhibition rooms are on multiple floors with stairs and an elevator for limited mobility.
The house preserves 200,000 archival items from the artist, including photographs, manuscripts, and correspondence that offer an unusually personal view into his life. Part of these documents appears in rotating thematic presentations.
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