Musée du Luxembourg
museum, Paris, France
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museums of modern art
- In museum of modern art: History
…owe their origins to the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. Designated by Louis XVIII in 1818 as a venue for the collection and display of the work of living artists, the Musée du Luxembourg acted as a kind of testing ground for recent art to judge its worthiness for admission…
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