Musée d’Art Moderne

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The Tokyo Palace, originally known as the Palace of the Museums of Modern Art, is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art. It is located at 13, avenue du Président-Wilson in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, following the banks of Seine a few hundred meters northeast of the Palais de Chaillot, in an architectural style close to it. The outer envelope of the building is completely covered with marble.

It occupies the location of the Savonnerie factory. The building in question is named before the war "Tokio Palace", then "New York Palace" in the immediate post-war period, and finally "Tokio Palace", by the name of the "Tokio Pier" (now New York Avenue) on the banks of the Seine, on which its south-eastern facade gives. The Palais de Tokyo, together with the Palais de Chaillot and the Palais d'Iéna, is one of the three permanent buildings resulting from the 1937 International Exhibition and intended, according to the 1934 project, to replace the Musée du Luxembourg.

It was originally used to present a retrospective of French art since the Middle Ages but its real inauguration dates back to 1947, when the collections relocated during the Second War...