Art Museums & Galleries — Paris

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's 1977 "inside-out" building, its structure and utilities painted and hung on the exterior, houses Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art.

The world's most-visited museum, housed in a former royal palace on the Seine, holds around 35,000 works on display, from the Mona Lisa to the Venus de Milo.

A Belle Époque railway station turned museum, holding the world's largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Monet, Degas, Van Gogh and Cézanne.

A former citrus greenhouse in the Tuileries gardens, purpose-built oval rooms here have displayed Claude Monet's monumental Water Lilies exactly as he intended since 1927.

An 18th-century mansion and rose garden where Auguste Rodin lived and worked, now displaying The Thinker, The Kiss and hundreds of his other bronzes and plasters.