The museum Zadkine may be the least well-known of its peers, but its location—a few steps away from the bustling Saint-Germain des Prés district—is a large part of its appeal. Home and workshop of the Russian-born sculptor Ossip Zadkine and his French wife, painter Valentine Prax, who lived there from 1928 to 1967, its sculpture-filled garden is a bit of countryside charm in the middle of Paris.

The museum is devoted to Zadkine’s works, including more than 400 sculptures along with drawings, paintings, and photographs. Some of the sculptures shown in the museum are carved directly out of whole tree trunks. “Come and see my pleasure house, and you’ll understand how much a man’s life can be changed by a pigeon house or by a tree,” Zadkine once wrote to a friend, which succinctly summarizes a visit here.