The Government acquired the hotel Biron in 1905 and Rodin rented the ground floor from 1908 onwards. From that moment, the sculptor, backed by his closest friends, was determined to turn the Hôtel Biron into a museum devoted to his works. It was only in 1916, through three successive donations, that Rodin handed over to the Government all his collections and personal archives, his property in Meudon and, even more important, his works, both sculptures and drawings, accompanied by reproduction rights. The museum opened its doors to the public on 4 August 1919. At present, it houses marble, bronze, plaster, wax and terracotta sculptures, ceramics, paintings, drawings, and works by other artists (Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh) from his personal collection. Rodin lived with his companion, Rose Beuret, in the Villa des Brillants in Meudon which he rented at the end of 1893 and bought in December 1895. Both of them are buried in Meudon, and their tomb is decorated with a statue of The Thinker. An annex building, adjoining the reconstructed facade of the Château d'Issy, contains an exhibition of assemblages and plaster casts showing the successive phases of the major monuments executed by the artist (The Gates of Hell, The Burghers of Calais, Balzac, The Monument to Victor Hugo, The Monument to Whistler ... ).

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