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National Maritime Museum in Paris, France (Musee national de la Marine)
Museum Address: 75116 Paris area pl. du Trocadero, Building 17 (Palace Palais de Chaillot)
Phone: +33 (0) 1 53 65 69 69
Museum Fax: +33 (0) 1 53 65 69 65
Metro: Trocadero
Bus Routes: 22, 30, 32, 63, 72, 82
Hours: 10.00-18.00 daily, except Tuesday
WEB site of the museum:
www.musee-marine.fr
Entrance to the museum: -
Collections of the Naval Museum of Paris, established by order of King Charles X in 1827, including models of ships and sea life items. The exhibition reflects the evolution of a large gallery of art navigation and the history of the French fleet in the XVII century to the present. Side Gallery exhibition highlights the scientific and technical aspects of navigation.
In 1748, Henri-Louis du Monceau suggested that King Louis XV of France collection of models of ships and naval installations on the condition that they will be displayed in the Louvre and are available for students of the Naval School of Engineering. In 1752, the collection was placed in a room, first floor, near the Academy of Sciences; room called the "Salle de Marine" (Marine Room). Since the French Revolution Salle de Marine was closed. Part of the collection was added to the models belonging to the King personally, transferred to the Ministry of the Navy, the rest goes to various people.
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The museum was reopened briefly between 1801 and 1803 years in the Ministry of Navy ..
In 1810, Napoleon ordered that the gallery of 19 models of ships has been placed in his apartment. In 1827, after the restoration of the Bourbons, by decree of Charles X Naval Museum was re-opened in the Louvre. The rooms were also opened in Cherbourg, Brest, Lorient, Rochefort and Toulon.
In 1852 the collection had been added some paintings and ethnographic exhibits. In 1920, the management of the museum was transferred to the French Navy and in 1937 the collection moved into the palace Palais de Chaillot, where the museum was opened on Aug. 15, 1943. Since 1971, the museum became an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Defence.
This is another reference to this museum Maritime Museum in Paris:
One of the largest maritime museums, the exhibition is devoted to the history of military and commercial shipbuilding and navigation from ancient times to the present day. Founded in 1801 in the Louvre, at the end of 1827 was officially opened by the decree of King Charles X. In 1943 in the Palais Palais de Shell. The basis of the museum collections formed models of warships of the French fleet, which began to gather in 1679 by order of the Minister of Marine of France, JB Colbert. At the request of King Louis XIV at each shipyard were to be models of the ships all the existing 5 ranks on the scale 1: 12 or 1: 20, which could serve as a model for the construction of new ships. Judgements were also typical models frigates and other vessels. Among more than 3500 exhibits about 500 models. The most valuable are the model 104-gun ship 1 st class "Soleil Royal" (1690), richly decorated in Baroque style model of a linear 108-gun ship "Louis XV", model of the admiral's galley, "La Real", model ships XVIII century. : 124-gun battleship Le Royal Louis ", a richly decorated 24-oar boat stroller Napoleon Bonaparte. The museum also has models of early steam ships: "Sphinx" (1829), "Belle Poule" (1834), "Valmy" (1847), submarines, research, trading, fishing, sports, exotic ships and boats, model bathyscaphe A. Piccard. In the department of hydrography there are rare instances of marine instruments and maps XV-XVIII centuries. In the museum there are also sea astrolabe, the Dutch bronze cannon with rock cores, marine lights, solar clocks, flags, paintings, prints, nose shape, etc.