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The museum has a large collection of art and artifacts from France and other parts of Europe. It houses armors, weapons, ceramics, furniture, clocks, and paintings. There is an impressive assortment of French and Italian ceramics, as well as Dutch, English, and Italian paintings. The building was formerly a family home and the collection was donated to the nation in the late 19th century, opening the museum to the public.

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Wallace Collection Overview Online

The museum has a large collection of art and artifacts from France and other parts of Europe. It houses armors, weapons, ceramics, furniture, clocks, and paintings. There is an impressive assortment of French and Italian ceramics, as well as Dutch, English, and Italian paintings. The building was formerly a family home and the collection was donated to the nation in the late 19th century, opening the museum to the public.

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The Entrance Hall with its beautiful bronze gilded staircase balustrade made in France in 1719.
The Collection
The museum has a large number of armours and
weapons, including armours from other parts of the
world, particularly India.
The museum has an impressive collection of French
and Italian ceramic. Its collection of Serves ware is
vast and varies.
The house is filled with French Rococo furniture of
18C.
It has a large collection of paintings, in particular
French Rococo paintings, French Orientalism and
Dutch 17C paintings, supplemented by Venetian
vedute paintings.
The collection of artefacts are found mainly on the ground floor.
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Marie Antoinette and her
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History & Fountain
The building was the family home of Marquess of
Hertford. In 1897, Lady Wallace, who was French,
died and left the collection and the house to the
nation. The Wallace Collection was opened to the
public as a national museum in 1990.
The family had a long association with France. The
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Marquess moved more or less permanently to Paris
in 1838. The last heir Sir Richard Wallace grew up
and lived in Paris.
In 1872, it was Richard Wallace who donated some
50 drinking fountains to Paris, after his experience of
the 1870 siege of Paris by the Prussian army. The
fountains are common sights of Paris today.
The peaceful caf-restaurant of the museum.
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Music Parisienne Walkway composed by Gary
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