Montmartre Museum exists because in 1886 a group of artists decided to preserve and protect the history and culture of a loved one quarter. They gathered in the bistro, discussed the problem and founded the company "Old Montmartre" in order to search for and store any evidence concerning the history of the area. In 1960 the museum was opened, which is used all that "old Montmartre" managed to accumulate.

The museum exhibition is devoted to four themes: the history of the district, the Paris Commune, holidays and bohemian Montmartre. The layout of the old village, made painter and sculptor Georges Volmer - a perfect illustration of the first subject. Well you can see how people lived on the hill when it was inhabited by workers, mining limestone, and peasants. In the section devoted to the Paris Commune, many posters and documents telling how the commune was born and how was suppressed. On festive Montmartre say costumes dancers and posters of the famous cabaret "Moulin Rouge", "Agile Rabbit", "Black Cat", "Japanese sofa" made Toulouse-Lautrec, Cheret and other famous artists. In the "La Boheme" features photographs and paintings of many famous artists who lived and worked in Montmartre at the turn of XIX-XX centuries.

Rozimona old mansion, which houses the museum, is also part of the history of Montmartre. Presumably it belonged Rozimonu, playwright and actor Moliere's troupe, Moliere play a role after his death. Later, there was the first workshop of Auguste Renoir - in this lovely garden he wrote "Swing" and "Garden in the street Cortot in Montmartre." Here lived the artist Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo, there were writers and Leon Bloy Pierre Riverdi artists Maximilien Luce, Othon Friesz, Raoul Dufy, Charles Camoin, Francis Pulbo. It Pulbo rescued a local vineyard in 1929, when his place would build houses. The vineyard Le Clos Montmartre, coming down the hill, visible from the windows of the mansion and the museum shop you can buy not only books, but also the local wine.

Now here comes the restoration - an ambitious plan involves doubling the area of ​​exhibitions and gardens, and the museum continues to operate.