Bourdelle MuseumMusée Bourdelle

Bourdelle Museum preserves the Montparnasse studios and garden where Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), once Rodin’s assistant, shaped a muscular, myth-charged modernism in early 20th-c. Paris. Opened as a City of Paris museum in 1949, it keeps sculpture close to the spaces of making—plaster studies, bronzes, and drawings unfolding from intimate rooms to open-air courts. Works such as Hercules the Archer (1906–09) show how he recast classical subjects into taut, contemporary force.