The Paris Rodin Museum has reopened to the public after years

Paris - After more than three years of reconstruction, the Rodin Museum in the center of Paris has reopened to the public. The 18th-century Palais Biron, which has exhibited works by the renowned French sculptor Auguste Rodin since 1919, served as the artist's studio and gallery during the last nine years of his life.
The museum, after renovations costing 16 million euros (over 432 million CZK), has more exhibition space and now offers 200 Rodin works that have been purchased or transferred from other collections in the country since the start of the reconstruction. The core of the exhibition still features Rodin's most famous sculptures, including The Kiss and The Thinker.
"The restoration of the museum was a moral obligation," declared French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin. This was the first reconstruction and modernization of the building since the early 20th century.
Rodin, who was born in 1840 and died in 1917, was one of the most significant sculptors of his time and in the history of art. He focused primarily on the human body, using its representation to express emotional states. In doing so, he laid the foundation for modern sculpture, which broke away from antiquity, which had not been surpassed until then.