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Museum National Picasso
The exterior of the 17th century mansion Aubert-de-Fontenay - Now home to the Musee Picasso.
Hôtel Salé, 5, rue de Thorigny , 75003 Paris
Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Filles du Calvaire 
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A Bit of History for the Picasso Museum
The Picasso Museum is situated in the heart of historic Paris, and houses a collection of several thousand works of Pablo Picasso. Picasso was born in 1881 and began studying art in 1895. During his life he created diverse works: painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, engraving, and even poetry. After his death in 1973, many of Picasso's works went to the French state, which decided to form a museum with the collection.
To house the collection, they chose to use a seventeenth-century hotel, situated in the Marais. This is the Hotel Sale that was built in 1656 for the general Aubert de Fontenay. Before housing the musee Picasso, the hotel was already well-known. It was leased to the ambassador of Venice, and it became the Central School of Art and Manufacture (and then the School of "métiers d'art"), and finally it was leased to the state in 1975. The restoration of the museum was completed in 1985.
Today, there are 203 paintings, 191 sculptures, 85 ceramics, and over 3000 drawings, engravings, and manuscripts in the museum. Besides the personal collection of Picasso, the museum also has some works of Cezanne and Matisse.
