Nissimdekanmo Art Museum

About

The Musée Nissim de Camondo grew out of the Camondo family, Sephardic Jewish bankers originally from Istanbul who relocated their base to Paris in 1869. Moïse de Camondo commissioned architect René Sergent to build a mansion in the style of the 18th century next to Parc Monceau, constructed between 1911 and 1914. Moïse's son Nissim de Camondo, a lieutenant in the French air force, was shot down and killed in aerial combat on September 5, 1917. Moïse died on November 14, 1935, leaving instructions in his will that the mansion become a museum in his son's memory; it opened on December 21, 1936. Its 20 rooms display 18th-century French furniture, paintings, carpets, tapestries, ceramics, and metalwork. Moïse's daughter, Béatrice de Camondo, was deported to Auschwitz in March 1944 and died there in early 1945; her two children, Fanny and Bertrand, had already been deported in November 1943 and perished that same year. The museum has been closed for renovation since August 2024 and is scheduled to reopen in 2030.