France: Paris: What to See & Do: Museums & Galleries: Musée Picasso

Musée Picasso

Note: The museum will be closed until 2013 due to renovations.

This museum in a 17th-century mansion in the Marais houses the more than 3,500 of Picasso works that the French state acquired in lieu of inheritance taxes after the artist’s death, in 1973. Closed Tuesday. Métro: Saint Paul, Saint-Sébastien Froissart or Chemin Vert.