Art Museum

Petit Palais

Petit Palais
Petit Palais

Petit Palais is an art museum in 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. 1 work from its collection is in this catalog, including Stefano Della Bella.

About Petit Palais

The Petit Palais (French: [p(ə)ti palɛ]; English: Small Palace) is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle ("universal exhibition"), it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais on the former Avenue Nicolas II, today Avenue Winston-Churchill. The other façades of the building face the Seine and Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

The Petit Palais is one of fourteen museums of the City of Paris that have been incorporated since 1 January 2013 in the public corporation Paris Musées. It has been listed since 1975 as a monument historique by the Ministry of Culture.

Petit Palais by the numbers

Founded
1902
Visitors / year
1,000,000

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Artworks shown from Petit Palais are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.