Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

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The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris.

The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III. It originally housed tennis courts; the name is from the precursor of tennis, the jeu de paume.

It was used from 1940 to 1944 to store Jewish cultural property looted by the Nazi regime in France.

Before 1986, it contained the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which held many important impressionist works now in the Musée d'Orsay.

[edit] External links

• Jeu de Paume
• Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
• Directions, opening hours
• The Jeu de Paume and the Looting of France - Website of the Cultural Property Research Foundation, Inc.