The Musée Picasso Paris occupies a mansion designed by Jean Boullier of Bourges for Pierre Aubert, seigneur de Fontenay, a tax farmer who grew rich from the salt tax. Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy and Martin Desjardins made the sculpture. The text gives construction from 1656 to 1659. The article gives no style or materials.
The Venetian Republic's embassy occupied it in 1671. The Revolution seized it, and it became a school in 1815. Paris acquired it in 1964, and it gained historic monument status in 1968. A restoration ran from 1974 to 1980.
The Picasso museum reopened on October 25, 2014 after a renovation, with a budget given as 52 million euros in one place and almost 70 million dollars in another. It holds over 5,000 works. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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