Musée Picasso

Picasso Museum, Paris (Hotel Salé, 1659) Picasso Museum, Paris, main entrance

Musée Picasso Paris ( French: [myze pikaso]; English: Paris Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé (English: Salé Hall) on the Rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France, dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings, and notebooks, as well as tens of thousands of archived pieces from Picasso's personal repository, including the artist's photographic archive, personal papers, correspondence, and author manuscripts. A large portion of items were donated by Picasso's family after his death, in accord with the wishes of the artist, who lived in France from 1905 to 1973.