Musée de Montmartre, Art museum in Montmartre, France
The Musée de Montmartre occupies a 17th-century building on rue Cortot and displays permanent and temporary collections of paintings, posters, and documents related to the area's artistic past. A garden on the grounds overlooks the vineyard slopes that remain in this part of Paris.
The building dates to the 17th century and served as home to many artists, including Auguste Renoir, who maintained his studio there in the late 1800s. The museum itself was established in 1960 to preserve the history of this artistic period.
The collection displays artworks and documents that reflect how artists lived and worked in Montmartre, with rooms arranged to show what studios looked like during their creative periods. These displays reveal the daily lives and practices of the people who made this neighborhood a center for creative activity.
The museum opens daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and charges admission. The Café Renoir, opened in 2014, serves visitors on the ground floor of the Hôtel Demarne, under a heated glass roof in winter and in the Renoir gardens in summer. The gardens, replanted in 2012 after Renoir's paintings, look onto the Montmartre vineyard.
Suzanne Valadon's studio-apartment was recreated in 2014 by designer Hubert Le Gall, working from period photographs, letters and the paintings in which she included elements of her own decor. The furniture is typical of the era, not original pieces. Valadon lived at 12 rue Cortot with Maurice Utrillo and André Utter, nicknamed the "Trio infernal".
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