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Musée Malraux
The MuMa, the André Malraux museum of modern art, is in Le Havre, in the Seine-Maritime, facing the sea. Opened in 1961 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, it occupies a building by the architect Guy Lagneau, known for its transparency and use of natural light.
The permanent collections, built up since 1845, offer a panorama of European painting: Flemish and Dutch schools, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism with Millet, Courbet and Delacroix, Fauvism with Matisse and Dufy, and Cubism. The museum is best known for its Impressionist collection, one of the most important in France, with works by Boudin, Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas and Marquet. It has grown through many gifts and bequests, notably Eugène Boudin's studio, given to the city in 1900.
The museum also holds temporary exhibitions and continues to enrich its collections through recent gifts.
