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Bourdelle Museum
Housed around a small garden and including the artist’s studio
and apartments, it is devoted to Rodin’s pupil Antoine Bourdelle,
who, among other works, created the Modernist relief friezes at
the Theatre des Champs Elysees.
U.N.E.S.C.O
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Visitors are welcome and it often hosts exhibitions. In the outer
courtyard are sculptures by Henri Moore, James Calder, and Giacometti;
inside there is a painting by Picasso, ‘The Fall of Icharus’,
and a tapestry by the architect Le Corbusier. There is also a lovely
Japanese garden and meditation area. By the garden is an angel from
the façade of a Nagasaki church destroyed by the atomic bomb
during WWII.
Jardin de l'Atlantique
The Garden is suspended 18 metres above the railway tracks of Gare
Montparnasse. It was built in 1995 is an interesting green oasis
with rest areas, trees and fountains.
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