Paris Musee Hebert Museum at Hotel de Montmorency
The Paris Musee Hebert Museum is dedicated to the painter Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert and was housed within the Hotel de Montmorency, which was built in 1743 by the Comte de Montmorency, and this was once a home of Ernest Hebert.
About Ernest Hebert and the Paris Musee Hebert
Ernest Hebert was a renowned painter who had an official career through the Second Empire and under the third Republic, which is when he was awarded a commission to paint the apse within The Pantheon monument in Paris.
Just in case you did not know, but The Pantheon is the burial place of famous people like the renowned author Victor Hugo who wrote the hunchback of Notre Dame, Jean Moulin a French Resistance leader, Louis Braille who founded true Braille, Marie Curie who discovered radium and many, many others.
Now one of the works by Ernest Hebert, who actually studied at the Academy du France in Rome, was originally placed within the salon of the Palais du Louvre Museum, but this was transferred to the Musee d’Orsay when this museum in Paris opened in 1986.
But, getting back to the Paris Musee Hebert museum, the actual house itself, called the Hotel de Montmorency, which was constructed in 1743 and where Ernest Hebert once lived, eventually became state property in the 1970s and some years later, the museum officially opened in 1984, yet since 2004 it has been officially linked with the Musee d’Orsay.
The main themes of his art works were peasant scenes, although he also used to do portrait paintings and much more, yet when you were able to step into the Musee Hebert, it was like taking a step back in time.
In fact, you could not just get to see collections by Ernest Hebert like his drawings and paintings, but there was furniture, decorative items, souvenirs plus much more on display, which were presented in a way as though he would still live there.
Visiting the Paris Musee Hebert Museum
The Paris Musee Hebert Museum in Hotel de Montmorency is open on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 12:30pm through to 6pm and on a Saturday and Sunday from 2pm through to 6pm. However, this Paris museum is closed on a Tuesday and on most National French holidays.
Now, you will find the historical building that houses the Paris Musee Hebert located within the 6th Arrondissement of Paris, and all the way around within walking distance are several different Metro stations.
You have the Vaneau stop serving line 10, the Sevres - Babylone stop serving lines 10 and 12, the Duroc stop serving lines 10 and 13, the Falguire and Rennes stops both serving line 12 and the Saint-Placide stop serving line 4.
Situated between the Jardin du Luxembourg to the east and the Ecole Militaire to the West, the Paris bus lines 28, 39, 68, 70, 82, 83, 87, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95 and 96 along with the Noctilien Night Bus Service via lines N01, N02, N12 and N13 will also all get you within walking distance of the Paris Musee Hebert museum as well as other Paris tourist attractions in the area.
