In Popular Culture
The museum's war episode was depicted in John Frankenheimer's 1964 film The Train, starring Burt Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau. In Sara Houghteling's novel, Pictures at an Exhibition (2009), the character of Rose Clément is based on Rose Valland.
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