Musée Picasso Paris (Hôtel Salé)

Located in the opulent Hôtel Salé (built 1656 for salt-tax collector Pierre Aubert). The museum was established in 1985 to house works donated by Picasso's heirs in lieu of French inheritance taxes.

A majestic encounter between grand classical French Baroque architecture and the radical 20th-century visual revolutions of Cubism and Surrealism.

Picasso kept thousands of his favorite works in his private studios, refusing to sell them during his lifetime because he envisioned them remaining together in a single collection.