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The Petit Palais (Small Palace) is a museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. Built for the Universal Exhibition
Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next....
 in 1900 to Charles Girault
Charles Girault

File:Royalmuseumforcentralafrica2004.jpgCharles-Louis Girault was a France architect.Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honor? Daumet at the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
's designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris).






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The Petit Palais (Small Palace) is a museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. Built for the Universal Exhibition
Exposition Universelle (1900)

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next....
 in 1900 to Charles Girault
Charles Girault

File:Royalmuseumforcentralafrica2004.jpgCharles-Louis Girault was a France architect.Born in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, he studied with Honor? Daumet at the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris....
's designs, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts (musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris). Arranged around a semi-circular courtyard and garden, the palace is similar to the nearby Grand Palais
Grand Palais

The Grand Palais is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Exposition Universelle . It is located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris of Paris, France....
. Its ionic
Ionic order

The Ionic order column forms one of the Classical order of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric order and the Corinthian order....
 columns, grand porch and dome echo those of the Invalides across the river. The tympanum depicting the city of Paris surrounded by muses is the work of sculptor Jean Antoine Injalbert
Jean Antoine Injalbert

Jean Antoine Injalbert was a much-decorated French people sculptor, born at Béziers....
.

The current exhibits are divided into sections: the Dutuit Collection of medieval and Renaissance
Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe....
 paintings, drawings and objets d'art; the Tuck Collection of 18th century furniture and the City of Paris collection of works by French artists, such as Jean Ingres, Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eug?ne Delacroix was a France Romanticism artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school....
 and Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet

Jean D?sir? Gustave Courbet was a France Painting who led the realism movement in 19th-century French painting....
.

The Petit Palais has served as a model for other public buildings, notably for the Royal Museum for Central Africa
Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Royal Museum for Central Africa is an ethnography and natural history museum in Tervuren in the suburbs of Brussels, Belgium. It was first built to show off Leopold II of Belgium Congo Free State for the 1897 World Exhibition....
 near Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, and the Museo de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) in Santiago
Santiago, Chile

Santiago , is the Capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m Above mean sea level....
, Chile.

See also

  • List of museums in Paris
    List of museums in Paris

    The museums of Paris can be sorted into three categories:* National museums - * Museums of the City of Paris - * The private museums - ...


External links

  • current photographs and of the years 1900