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ART MUSEUM
MUSÉE DE LA HALLE ST-PIERRE
6.50; 11am-6pm Mon-Fri, 11am-7pm Sat, noon-6pm Sun; Anvers)
Founded in 1986, this museum and gallery is in the lovely old covered St Peter's Market. It
focuses on the primitive and Art Brut schools; there is no permanent collection, but the mu-
seum stages three temporary exhibitions a year. There's a lovely cafe on site.
ART MUSEUM
DALÍ ESPACE MONTMARTRE
10am-6pm, to 8pm Jul & Aug; Abbesses)
More than 300 works by Salvador Dalí (1904-89), the flamboyant Catalan surrealist print-
maker, painter, sculptor and self-promoter, are on display at this surrealist-style basement
museum located just west of place du Tertre. The collection includes Dalí's strange sculp-
tures (most in reproduction), lithographs, and many of his illustrations and furniture pieces,
including the famous Mae West lips sofa.
MUSEUM
MUSÉE DE LA VIE ROMANTIQUE
10am-6pm Tue-Sun;
Blanche or St-Georges)
This small museum is dedicated to two artists active during the Romantic era: the writer Ge-
orge Sand and the painter Ary Scheffer. Located at the end of a film-worthy cobbled lane,
the villa housing the museum originally belonged to Scheffer and was the setting for popular
salons of the day, attended by such notable figures as Delacroix, Liszt and Chopin (Sand's
lover).
The ground floor is devoted to Sand and is full of paintings, objets d'art and personal ef-
fects, while the 1st floor displays a selection of Scheffer's portraits.
CEMETERY
CIMETIÈRE DE MONTMARTRE
Established in 1798, this 11-hectare cemetery is perhaps the most celebrated necropolis in
Paris after Père Lachaise. It contains the graves of writers Émile Zola (whose ashes are now
in the Panthéon), Alexandre Dumas (fils) and Stendhal, composers Jacques Offenbach and
Hector Berlioz, artist Edgar Degas, film director François Truffaut and dancer Vaslav Nijin-
sky, among others.
The entrance closest to the Butte de Montmartre is at the end of av Rachel, just off bd de
Clichy, or down the stairs from 10 rue Caulaincourt. Maps showing the location of the
