T Musée Picasso gallery located Hôtel Sé Thorigny, Marais district Paris. T hôtel particulier houses collection built between 1656 1659 Pierre Aubert, seigneur Fontenay, x farmer became collecting gabelle x ( building means "salted"). T architect J Boullier Bourges, known Boullier Bourges; sculpture carried y brothers Gaspard Balthazard Marsy y Martin Desjardins. I considered finest historic houses Marais.

T mansion changed hands several times through sales inheritances. T occupants included Embassy Republic Venice (1671), François Neufville, Villeroi; expropriated y State during Revolution; 1815 became school, which Balzac studied; housed municipal Ecole Métiers d'Art. I acquired y Cy Paris 1964, granted historical monument status 1968. T mansion restored y Bernard Vitry Bernard Fonquernie Monuments Historiques between 1974-1980.

T Hotel Sé selected Musée Picasso after contentious civic national debate. A competition determine would design facilities. T proposal Roland Simounet selected 1976 amongst submitted. Other proposals submitted y Roland Castro GAU (Groupement p l'Architecture l'Urbanisme), J Monge, Carlo Scarpa. F part, interior mansion (which undergone significant modifications) restored former spacious state.

I 1968, France created permitted heirs py inheritance taxes works instead money, g considered important contribution French cultural heritage. T known dation, allowable y exceptional circumstances. Dominique Bozo, curator national museums, selected those works become dation Picasso. T selection reviewed y J Leymarie ratified 1979. I contained y Picasso techniques periods, especially terms excellent collection sculptures. Up Jacqueline Picasso's death 1986, daughter offered dation. T collection acquired number works through purchases gifts.

Picasso "I greatest collector Picassos world." H amassed enormous collection y death 1973, ranging sketchbooks finished masterpieces. T Musée Picasso contains 3000 different works y Pablo Picasso including drawings, ceramics paintings. T complemented y Picasso's personal collection works y other artists, including Cézanne, Degas, Rousseau, Seurat, Chirico Matisse. I contains Iberian bronzes g collection primitive . O impressive aspects museum contains large number works which Picasso painted after seventieth birthday.

T museum effort present accompanying information. F example, cartoonists mocked caricatured displayed Picasso's 1950s. There rooms thematic presentations, museum largely follows chronological sequence, displaying painting, drawings, sculptures prints. Other items display include photographs, manuscripts, newspaper clippings photographs provide additional contextual information.

T second floor special aside temporary exhibitions prints. T third floor contains library, documentation archives department (reserved research), curator's offices.

J Clair museum's current director.