12 Facts About Petit Palais

Petit Palais is an art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.

The Petit Palais is located across from the Grand Palais on the former Avenue Nicolas II, today Avenue Winston-Churchill.

Petit Palais is one of fourteen museums of the City of Paris that have been incorporated since 1 January 2013 in the public corporation Paris Musees.

Construction of the Petit Palais began on 10 October 1897 and was completed in April 1900.

In 1902, the Petit Palais officially became the Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.

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Girault's plan for the Petit Palais had minimal alterations from the design to the execution.

Beaux-Arts style Petit Palais was designed by Charles Girault, and is around an octi-circular courtyard and garden, similar to the Grand Palais.

Petit Palais was built to be a lasting building that would become a permanent fine arts museum after the exhibition.

The interior of the Petit Palais was designed to create exhibition spaces "suited to every aspect of a collection: the outer galleries for objects, the inner, skylit ones for paintings, the lower galleries for reserves and the entrance rotunda and main gallery for sculptures".

The inner gallery of Petit Palais exhibited “priceless treasures in ivory, tapestry, metal work, jewelry, and porcelain gathered from the most important collections of France”.

Some people even claimed that the Petit Palais had the “power to educate the mind while it pleases the senses”.

The Petit Palais has served as a model for other public buildings, notably for the Royal Museum for Central Africa located in Tervuren, Belgium; and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile.