Auguste Bartholdi. Liberty Enlightening the World

Look for

• Dargaud's view from the boulevard de Courcelles (1884)

  Look for the statue poking out of its wooden scaffolding above Haussmann rooftops and a blue gable painted with the Petit Journal sign, with about fifteen passers-by in the street.

• Bartholdi and his small Liberty

  At the entrance, a cast shows the sculptor leaning on a Statue of Liberty shorter than he is.

• Fernique's workshop photograph (1884)

  Albert Fernique's photograph of the statue assembled at the Gaget, Gauthier & Cie workshops in Paris, before it was packed into crates for New York.

• The 1889 bronze Liberté

  A bronze cast by Thiébaut frères from Bartholdi's model, about nine and a half feet tall, with the torch, radiant crown and tablet of the full-size statue.

• The inauguration window

  The route ends on the 28 October 1886 inauguration in New York, framed by a coloured stained-glass window.

Good for

• Evening Visits
• Out-Of-Town Guests
• Small Kids

Skip if

You want a big retrospective: the exhibition itself fills two small rooms.

With kids

Under-18s get in free. Captions dotted through the show ask questions aimed at younger visitors, and a hands-on space by the exit lets them test scale and touch the statue's materials.