Musee Cognacq-Jay

The Gornac-Jean Museum is located in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The museum site was moved to its current location in 1990. It is a four-storey building decorated in the style of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and exhibits are distributed in twenty In the room, there are 1,200 collections, including European and Chinese ceramics, jewelry, paintings and furniture. The museum's exhibits consist of the private collection of Théodore-Ernest Cognacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay from 1900 to 1925, Cognacq and his sons Is the founder of a large department store in Paris, the Samaritan department store. After Gonnac's death, he donated his collection to the city of Paris, and in 1929 the Gonnac-Jean museum, named after the couple, opened to the public.