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• Château de Versailles, near Paris. (In French and English.) Includes The Carriage Museum.
• Cité des Sciences and de l'Industrie, Paris. (In French and English.)
• Electropolis, Mulhouse cedex. Museum of electric energy. (In French, English and German.)
• French Ministry of Culture. (Mainly in French, some English.) See:
  • The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition. (In English and French.)
  • Documentation, including several databases. (In French.) E.g.:
    • Joconde database of more than 130,000 records describing paintings and sculptures in France's national museums, including some images.
    • MUSEES database, Centre de documentation, Direction des musées de France (DMF).
    • Muséofile - national database of French museums (entry price, opening hours, type of collections, etc.).
  • Archaeological discovery of a decorated Palaeolithic cave near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc on 25 December 1994 (announced 17 January 1995). An interesting example where a virtual exhibition is the only way to allow instantaneous worldwide general public access without risk of damage.
  • The Musée d'Art Contemporain of Lyon. Biennale Art Contemporain de Lyon '95, December 1995 - March 1996. Devoted to works of art created
  • using new technologies. (In French and English.)
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. (Also in French.)
• The Louvre, Paris. Widely regarded as the most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. (Also in French,
• Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.) See also Louvre.edu educational resources (by subscription, in French), virtual visit, and here.
• Museum of Asiatic Art, Nice. (In English, French and Japanese.)
• Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of Arts and Crafts), Paris, and the Conservatoire National de Arts et Métiers. (Mainly in French, some English and bilingual pages available.)
• Musée des Augustins, Toulouse. (In French and English.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris. (In French.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper. (In French.)
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. (In French.)
• Musée Rodin, Paris. Sculpture and drawings by the artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1919) in the Hôtel Biron where he rented the ground floor. (In French and
• English.)
• Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. See collections catalogue including searchable fish catalogue. (In French and English.)
• Musée des télécommunications: Le Radome, Pleumeur-Bodou.
• Museum of l'Empéri, Salon-de-Provence. (Also in French.)
• Museum of the Legion of Honour, Paris. (In French and English.)
• Videomuseum. (In English soon - September 1997.)
• Art and culture - major French museums guide. (In French, English and Italian.)
• Museums, exhibitions and monuments/museums map of Paris.
• Museums of L'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD, the Central Union of Decorative Arts).
• Maritime museums.
• Giverny and Vernon museums. See also Claude Monet's garden.

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