| Musée du Luxembourg | |
| Location: | 19 rue de Vaugirard, |
| Map Type: | France Paris |
| Coordinates: | 48.8486°N 2.334°W |
| Type: | Temporary exhibitions |
The French: Musée du Luxembourg|italic=no (in French pronounced as /myze dy lyksɑ̃buʁ/) is a museum at 19 French: [[rue de Vaugirard]]|italic=no in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Established in 1750, it was initially an art museum located in the east wing of the Luxembourg Palace (the matching west wing housed the Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens) and in 1818 became the first museum of contemporary art. In 1884 the museum moved into its current building, the former orangery of the Palace. The museum was taken over by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Senate in 2000, when it began to be used for temporary exhibitions, and became part of the French: [[Réunion des Musées Nationaux]]|italic=no in 2010.[1] [2]
From 1750 to 1780 it was the first public painting gallery in Paris, displaying the King's collection which included Titian's Madonna of the Rabbit, Da Vinci's Holy Family (either The Virgin and Child with St. Anne or Virgin of the Rocks) and nearly a hundred other Old Master works now forming the nucleus of the Louvre. In 1803, the French: Musée du Luxembourg|italic=no reopened showing paintings by a range of artists from Nicolas Poussin to Jacques-Louis David. It was then devoted to living artists from 1818 to 1937. Much of the work first shown here has found its way into other museums of Paris including the French: [[Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume|Jeu de Paume]]|italic=no, the French: [[Musée de l'Orangerie|Orangerie]]|italic=no, and ultimately the French: [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]]|italic=no and the French: [[Musée d'Orsay]]|italic=no.