Bourdelle Museum, Paris

The Musée Bourdelle occupies the original studios and apartment where sculptor Antoine Bourdelle lived and worked from 1885 until his death in 1929. Located in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris's 15th arrondissement, the museum holds over 2,000 plaster sculptures, 2,200 bronzes, hundreds of paintings, and thousands of drawings and photographs. Visitors walk through Bourdelle's preserved workspace, a painting studio, the family apartment with period furnishings, and a grand hall built in 1961 for monumental plasterwork.