Musée Nissim de Camondo

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  • Address
    63 rue de Monceau, 8e
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  • Phone
    01 53 89 06 50
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Monceau or Villiers

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The Nissim de Camondo Museum, housed in a sumptuous mansion modelled on the Petit Trianon at Versailles , displays 18th-century furniture, wood panelling, tapestries, porcelain and other objets d'art collected by Count Moïse de Camondo, a Jewish banker who settled in Paris from Constantinople in the late 19th century.

He bequeathed the mansion and his collection to the state on the proviso that it would be a museum named in memory of his son Nissim (1892-1917), a pilot killed in action during WWI. The museum is run by the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, which is responsible for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and two other museums in the Rohan Wing of the Louvre.