Petit Palais

The Petit Palais is a fine arts museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, on Avenue Winston-Churchill near the Champs-Élysées. The building was designed by the architect Charles Girault and erected for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, after which it became the City of Paris's museum of fine arts (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris).

Its collections span antiquity to the early twentieth century and include paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and graphic works, with notable holdings of nineteenth-century French art alongside Renaissance and Old Master pieces. Admission to the permanent collection is free.