The Musée de Cluny, officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages in English), is a museum in Paris, France. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 6 Place Paul Painlevé, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques.
The structure is perhaps the most outstanding example still extant of civic architecture in medieval Paris. It was formerly the town hous...
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The Musée de Cluny, officially known as Musée National du Moyen Âge (National Museum of the Middle Ages in English), is a museum in Paris, France. It is located in the 5th arrondissement at 6 Place Paul Painlevé, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, between the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques.
The structure is perhaps the most outstanding example still extant of civic architecture in medieval Paris. It was formerly the town house (hôtel) of the abbots of Cluny, started in 1334. The structure was rebuilt by Jacques d'Amboise, abbot in commendam of Cluny 1485-1510; it combines Gothic and Renaissance elements. In 1843 it was made into a public museum, to contain relics of France's Gothic past preserved in the building by Alexandre du Sommerard. It no longer possesses anything originally connected with the abbey of Cluny.
Originally the hôtel, was part of a larger Cluniac complex that also included a building (no longer standing) for a religious college in the Place de...
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