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at the cemetery's entrance.
ART MUSEUM
MUSÉE DE L'ÉROTISME
10am-2am;
Blanche)
The Museum of Erotic Art attempts to raise around 2000 titillating statuary, stimulating
sexual aids and fetishist items to a loftier plane, with antique and modern erotic art from
four continents spread out across several floors. Some of the exhibits are, well, breathtaking,
to say the least.
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HISTORIC RESIDENCE
MUSÉE NISSIM DE CAMONDO
€9/6.50/free; 11am-6pm Tue, Wed & Fri-Sun, to 9pm Thu; Monceau or Villiers)
The Nissim de Camondo Museum, housed in a sumptuous mansion modelled on the Petit
Trianon at Versailles, displays 18th-century furniture, wood panelling, tapestries, porcelain
and other objets d'art collected by Count Moïse de Camondo, a Sephardic Jewish banker
who moved from Constantinople to Paris in the late 19th century.
He bequeathed the mansion and his collection to the state on the proviso that it would be
turned into a museum named in memory of his son Nissim (1892-1917), a pilot killed in ac-
tion during WWI. It is part of Les Arts Décoratifs, the trio of museums in the Louvre's Ro-
han Wing.
ART MUSEUM
MUSÉE CERNUSCHI
10am-6pm Tue-Sun;
Villiers)
The Cernuschi Museum comprises an excellent and rare collection of ancient Chinese art
(funerary statues, bronzes, ceramics), much of which predates the Tang dynasty (618-907),
in addition to diverse pieces from Japan. Milan banker and philanthropist Henri Cernuschi
(1821-96), who settled in Paris before the unification of Italy, assembled the collection dur-
ing a world tour from 1871-73.
GALLERY
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