Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris

You're standing at the Musée Marmottan Monet, on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the sixteenth arrondissement of Paris. From the outside it doesn't look like a big museum at all, but like an elegant town house. It started life as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Valmy. Jules Marmottan bought it in 1882, and his son Paul turned it into a grand private mansion.