The Jeu de Paume in the Tuileries Garden in Paris was built for Napoleon III. The page names Hector-Martin Lefuel as architect, but a later section credits Melchior Viraut, so the sources conflict. Charles Delahaye oversaw construction. The text dates construction to 1861. The infobox gives only the 2004 establishment date.
The article calls the style Second Empire, with semi-fluted Ionic columns and a tympanum bearing Napoleon's coat of arms. It gives no materials. It has about 1,180 square meters of exhibition space over three floors.
It became a gallery in 1909 and stored Nazi-looted art from 1940 to 1944. The Musée du Jeu de Paume was housed there from 1947 to 1986. Antoine Stinco renovated it from 1989, and it reopened in 1991 as France's first national gallery of contemporary art. It is an arts center for modern and postmodern photography and media. The article gives no hours.
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