Louvre city takes the form of one of the classic symphonies of the 1920s, which begin at daybreak, end at nightfall, and chronicle the lives of urban dwellers at work and at play. Rather than focus on its familiar role as a monument to high culture, director Nicolas Philibert shows us the everyday life of the museum and how it operates.

Dulwich Picture Gallery is England's first purpose-built public art gallery. Designed by Sir John Soane, the influential building holds one of the world's finest Old Master collections including great works by Poussin, Rubens, Canaletto, Reynolds and Gainsborough. This film goes behind the scenes at the gallery, and offers an insider's view of a vibrant working world. Included are the restoration of Rembrandt's glorious Girl at a Window, exhibition...

Hidden behind the masterpieces in the Met, there is another world: the hallways, offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeterias that are home to the museum's devoted and peculiar staff of 2200 people, along with a few ghosts. This is a series of amusing and poignant vignettes that is an ode to the lives lived for art. It is a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.