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The Guardian - UK
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Kim Willsher in Paris

Former train station on banks of Seine to house Giacometti museum

The Gare des Invalides station, on the banks of the Seine, was built for the 1900 Paris exhibition to ferry passengers to and from Versailles and Brittany.
The Gare des Invalides station, on the banks of the Seine, was built for the 1900 Paris exhibition to ferry passengers to and from Versailles and Brittany. Photograph: Edward Berthelot/Getty Images

The Swiss Surrealist sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti is to have a new museum in a former train station in Paris after fears the world’s largest collection of his work could be moved abroad.

The Giacometti Foundation will take up residence in the former Gare des Invalides, better known in postwar years as the former headquarters of Air France. Its opening is scheduled for 2026.

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