The best museums Ile-De-France

Welcome to this temple of the Far East. Most of the collections presented in this museum were brought back by Clémence d 'Ennery to the end of the nineteenth century, when fashion was «chinoiserie». This passion has accumulated treasures in his particular hotel, which was finally transformed into a permanent exhibition site in 1908. It is attached to the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet.

It is with emotion that passes the porch of this venerable school. Set in 1816 on its current site, the school stretches today in a group of buildings dating from xvii^e in xx^e centuries. It includes the former chapel of the convent of Small - Augustins and hotel of Chimay. This institution has a higher education of European fame (paintings, engravings, sculptures, visual arts...), but also of the exhibitions on various themes. They are organised in specific rooms and the chapel, which overlooks the courtyard of the Mulberry Tree; it is a former cloisters it convent that was rebuilt in a neo-renaissance style in antique xix^e century.

The buildings of this factory date back to the seventeenth century, whereas its Saint-Louis chapel dates back to the eighteen century. As for Galerie des Gobelins, it was built in 1914; the word Gobelins is simply derived from a family of dyers, the Gobelin - with no s! - who settled there in the fifteenth century in the Saint-Marcel neighbourhood that had already specialized in this activity. The weavers finally settled under the reign of Henri IV in the premises belonging to them. During the reign of Louis XIV, Colbert who was the minister at the time decided to make this site a real factory with a mission to produce exceptional quality curtains for royal palaces and embassies. Attached to the administration of Mobilier National in 1937, this factory is still set at the highest level in terms of quality and creativity. One of the traditions of this factory is to reach out to the greatest visual artists of the moment in order to imagine new patterns. A visit accompanied by the speaker of the factory, will enable you discover the history and operation of the site in details. Note that Galerie des Gobelins offers temporal exhibitions where you can see treasures woven some years back or today.

This museum offers a real trip back to childhood for parents or grandparents. Children will be delighted with this amazing visit. Many dolls dating back to 1800 to our days are exposed through permanent and temporary exhibitions. Porcelain, papier-mâché, fabric, celluloid or plastic, all these dolls are exhibited with accessories, furniture and many toys of yesteryear. If you want appraise your antique dolls or your toys, a "clinic" is specialized in estimating their values ​​or restoring them. The permanent rooms presenting the Odin collection in 4 rooms, with 40 windows housing over 600 dolls dating back to 1800 to 1959 were refurbished.

Halle Saint-Pierre is an old market, built by one of Baltard's students.

Contemporary popular art, rough art, naive art, unusual art and "outsider" art are discovered here! The collections of Max Fourny, a publisher, a great collector and promoter of Naive Art, are over six hundred works including more than five hundred paintings, paper works, marquetry, textile works and others beneath fixed under glasses. If you wish to occupy your children a little bit, animations and storytelling tours are organised for kids.