District guide · Paris
The 3rd arrondissement lies in central Paris, forming part of the city's historic core alongside the 1st, 2nd and 4th districts. The Musée des Arts et Métiers a...
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The 3rd arrondissement lies in central Paris, forming part of the city's historic core alongside the 1st, 2nd and 4th districts. The Musée des Arts et Métiers and Musée national Picasso-Paris house significant collections, while the Marché couvert des Enfants Rouges serves as a covered market. Medieval and Renaissance hôtels particuliers, including the Maison de Nicolas Flamel, punctuate the district's streets alongside religious sites and green spaces.
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The Musée des Arts et Métiers is Europe's oldest technology museum, founded in 1794 to collect and preserve the machines and instruments of French industry, and it has occupied a former medieval priory ever since.
Musée national Picasso-Paris
The Musee Picasso occupies the Hotel Sale, a seventeenth-century mansion in the Marais built in the 1650s for Pierre Aubert de Fontenay, a salt-tax collector whose unpopular trade gave the building its nickname, sale meaning salted.
Musee Carnavalet is the museum of the history of Paris, occupying two adjoining Marais mansions: the Hotel Carnavalet, built in the 16th century and remodelled by Francois Mansart in 1655, and the neighbouring Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau.
The Musee d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme, known as the MAHJ, is France's museum of Jewish art and history, opened in 1998 in the Hotel de Saint-Aignan, a 17th-century mansion in the Marais, 3rd arrondissement.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
