Modern Art Museum of Paris

The city's museum of modern art occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo, an Art Deco building put up for the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The collection holds about 15,000 works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its centrepiece is Raoul Dufy's monumental La Fee Electricite, one of the largest paintings in the world at 250 square metres, commissioned by the Paris electricity company in 1937 to celebrate the history of electricity. Other highlights include Matisse, Picasso, Delaunay, Modigliani and Bonnard. Admission to the permanent collection is free. The terrace in front offers a wide view across the Seine to the Eiffel Tower.