The museum was housed in the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo, an imposing building created for the 1937 World Fair. The Museum of Modern Art in Paris, inaugurated in 1961, houses various artistic trends from the 20th century. The museum’s collection of more than 8,000 works includes creations by some great masters, such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Amedeo Modigliani, André Derain and Alberto Giacometti …