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Introduction to the quartier chic

House Clemenceau Musee du Vin Musee Balzac

Passy, Auteuil, Guimard,Castel Beranger

An architecural walk out of this time

Sewer museum Modern Art museum Musee  Homme Musee de la Marine

Musee Cinema
Musee Marmottan

Musee Guimet

Musee Dapper

Bois de Boulogne part 1

Bois de Boulogne part 2

La Defense

Paris-16th arr-Musee du Cinema-Musée Marmottan 

What about the famous MUSEE DU CINEMA HENRI DE LANGLOIS? Being closed for years due to the disastrous fire in the Palais Chaillot on July 22  1997, I forget to check each time I was in Paris to see if it reopened. Notice that I heard they might move elsewhere…Maybe the American pavilion at Bercy. But let’s not stand still with such unimportant detail ;-) and describe the museum anyway how I remember it and helped a bit by my bibliography. It’s a genuine journey through the history of motion pictures, with a laterna magica, and films of the impressive Hollywood era (like films of Fritz Lang and his robots out of Metropolis). Melies studio reconstitution, for movie addicts who look how was the tracing of celluloid history.
The MUSEE DES MONUMENTS FRANCAIS in the Palais de Chaillot is closed for the same reasons as the musee du Cinema. Just a few words: Viollet-le-Duc founded this museum with sculptures and enormous images of Roman period until the 19th century. Also maps of castles, small-scale models and reproductions of churches. You can sight see the country without leaving the capital!
Walking down the avenue du President Wilson to the place d’Iena, let’s visit at no.6 the MUSEE DES ARTS ASIATIQUES, MUSEE GUIMET. It is scheduled for reopening on January 15, 2001, after a closure of 5 years, for thorough renovations. 
From the place d’Iena you can walk along the av. Pierre 1er de Serbie and at no. 10 the amateurs of fashion history will enjoy the MUSEE DE LA MODE ET DU COSTUME, Palais Galliera. Located in the city palace (neo Renaissance) of the countess Maria de Ferrari Galliera. It’s a pity we cannot see all 10,000 objects (with gifts from the Rothschild and the Monegasque royal family), they are impossible to display all together because of the damaging influence of light  and air. Permanently they organize thematic exhibitions like” the history of the blue jean” to show the traditions and evolutions of fashion. A little promenade in the garden behind the palace is worth a million. 
Now you must excuse me but the most important painting museum in this arrondissement is quite far away from where you are now. Rue Louis Boilly is at the end of the jardins du Ranelagh where I had you walking before in my Guimard articles. Forgot to mention but now I will. You can include the musee Marmottan to your must visits. Just walk back from Trocadero on the avenue Paul Doumer or take the metro and exit metro La Muette. Cross the jardins du Ranelagh and enter the MUSEE MARMOTTAN in 2, rue Boilly.
World famous museum of Impressionism, it was created in 1932 by the bequest of a historian and collector, Paul Marmottan. Containing 100 paintings by Monet, donated by his son. To the numerous Monet paintings the collection he added an exceptional collection of " enluminures", one of Europe’s most outstanding groups of illuminated manuscripts from the 12th. to the 15th. century of the Wildenstein bequest.  Here the  famous "Impression, Soleil levant", which christened the Impressionist movement is at display. It was stolen in November 1985 together with 10 other masterpieces, and worldwide researches took place. The paintings were finally recovered. Other master pieces are “Le Parlement, “Le Pont de l’Europe a la Gare Saint-Lazare”, Nympheas “.In the basement, the incredible series of works realized in Giverny by the almost blind painter!    Impossible to cite all the works but you'll discover in the galleries on the ground floor Empire furnishing, tapestries, stained-glass windows and religious primitives. To his own works paintings of Monet’s personal collection are shown in the basement like Pissaro, Jongkind, Boudin, Berthe Morisot and Renoir painting "Claude Monet lisant", Sisley. And that Monet, a festival of iris, roses, agapanthus and magnificent white water lilies and so many others. Oh yes, no lines to get into Marmottan! Exception when there is a special exhibition. Anyway, not to compare with the lines at Orsay.
A private museum specialized in African art is the musee Dapper, av. Victor Hugo, 50, Always temporary superb exhibitions by themes.

Bibliography

--Vie et histoire des arrondissements de Paris, ed.Hervas (1985-1988--Nouvelle Histoire de Paris, ed.Hachette--Le Pieton de Paris, by L.P.Fargue, ed.Gallimard 199 --Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, by J.Hillairet, ed.Minuit --Guide du Routard 1998-1999 (Ed.Hachette)--Paris, 2000 d'histoire, by J.Favier, ed.Fayard 1997—Trocadero buurt, prachtwandeling en museums, by.J .Fuherschien (ed.Alkhuys, 1995)