Paris
France · 10 collections · 99 locations
Turn off the boulevard and Paris starts: the quiet side of a quarter, a counter worth the detour, a bench facing the best view in the arrondissement. The people who made these maps turned off a long time ago.
Places in Paris
- Philharmonie de Paris — in Jean Nouvel's buildings in Paris
- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain — in Jean Nouvel's buildings in Paris
- Musée Zadkine — in The Paris Musées, the museums the City of Paris runs itself
- Musée de la Vie Romantique — in The Paris Musées, the museums the City of Paris runs itself
- Studio de l'Ermitage — in Paris's jazz clubs
- Bal Blomet — in Paris's jazz clubs
Collections in Paris
- Jean Nouvel's buildings in Paris — Nouvel has been building in Paris for four decades, from the moucharabieh façade that made his name in 1987 to the Palais-Royal rooms he re…
- The Paris Musées, the museums the City of Paris runs itself — Fourteen museums in Paris belong to the city rather than the state, pooled since 2013 into a single public body that handles their collecti…
- Paris's jazz clubs — Paris keeps its jazz in three kinds of room: Left Bank cellars dug long before anyone played bebop in them, the fifty-metre run of rue des…
- The bridges over the Seine inside Paris — Every crossing here is dated, and the dates are the point: a toll bridge for carrying the sick to the Hôtel-Dieu, a span built to move crow…
- Paris's mainline railway termini — Seven SNCF terminals point out of Paris like spokes, and which one you want depends entirely on where in France you are going: Normandy lea…
- The Paris locations of Amélie — Jean-Pierre Jeunet shot Amélie across a real city and then repainted it, so the addresses below are genuine while the film's version of the…
- Paris galleries that show only photography — Photography in Paris is not confined to a department inside a bigger museum: it has its own buildings, and some of them were something else…
- Paris covered market halls built in the 1800s — Nineteenth-century Paris solved the problem of shopping in mud twice over: iron-framed food halls dropped into the middle of neighbourhoods…
- Paris passages under their original glass roofs — Paris built its glazed shopping streets between the 1790s and the 1860s, and the surviving twenty-odd differ enormously in how much of the…
- Paris dining rooms protected as monuments historiques — The state listing attaches to ceilings, painted panels, mosaic floors, mirrors and carved shopfronts, which means the room cannot be altere…
Subjects: Food & Drink, Nightlife, Markets, Shopping, Photography, Culture & History, Transport.