 The museum opened in 1919.Since World War II, the Musée Rodin has been able to buy back "boiseries" and decorative paintings formerly in the house, which were stripped out by the Dames du Sacre-Coeur and sold.In the 1980s the museum was able to buy two of Lemoyne's overdoors, "Venus Showing Cupid the Ardour of his Arrows" (acquired in 1985) and the "Labours of Penelope" (acquired in 1989), and restore them to their original positions.