Paris Museums
Guide to the best museums in Paris
Artists from all over the world come to Paris, the Capital of the Arts, seeking inspiration in its museums and galleries.
Paris is home to the École des Beaux-Arts, where many famous European artists such as Degas, Delacroix, Monet and Renoir were trained.
The Louvre is the largest and most famous museum in the world, with works of art such as the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo statue. The Musée d’Orsay houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world.
The Georges Pompidou Center, on the other hand, houses works of modern and contemporary art.
To save on museum tickets you can buy the Paris Pass, which includes a Museum Pass.
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Most popular Paris museums
A list to help you decide which Parisian museum to visit
Louvre Museum
The majestic museum of France. It has 35,000 works of art that have made it the most famous and visited in the world. It opened its doors to the public in 1793.
Orsay Museum
It occupies a former train station. Focused on 19th century fine arts including impressionist art by artists such as Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Monet.
Pompidou Center
The Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture is a high-tech architectural building where one of the best collections of modern and contemporary art in the world is exhibited.
Orangerie Museum
The Orangerie has famous Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works such as Monet’s Water Lilies, composed of eight parts displayed in an oval room.
Museo Rodin
Rodin himself turned this palace into the museum it is today. The museum’s collection, much loved by the French, also includes pieces by Van Gogh, Monet and Renoir.
Picasso Museum
The Picasso Museum in Paris exhibits several works by the Spanish artist and other works by artist friends in a beautiful 17th century building in the Parisian district of Le Marais.
Grévin Museum
The Wax Museum of Paris. It was inaugurated in 1882 , and contains more than 500 figures representing popular and important characters from around the world.
Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac
The Musée du quai Branly in Paris, exhibits samples of indigenous art, cultures and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and America.
Natural History Museum
Located in the Jardin des Plantes (an ancient garden of medicinal plants created by Louis XIII in 1635). It is one of the most important natural history museums in the world.
Paris Army Museum
The Army Museum of Paris (Musée de l’Armée) is located in the Invalides building, where you can visit Napoleon’s tomb and an outstanding military collection.
Louis Vuitton Foundation
Museum dedicated to contemporary art, located in the Bois de Boulogne, one of the largest parks in Paris. Great temporary exhibitions.
Jacquemart-André Museum
Parisian mansion from the time of Haussmann’s Paris, where you can admire a private collection that includes works by Rembrandt, Anthony van Dyck, Bernini and Botticelli.
City of Sciences and Industry
Located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, it is the largest interactive science and technology museum in Europe.
Paris Museum of Modern Art
Composed of works mostly donated by collectors and artists, in this museum you can admire the works of artists such as Rouault, Picasso, Dufy, Gromaire or Matisse.
Victor Hugo's House
You can visit in this building in the famous Place de Vosges in the Parisian neighborhood of Le Marais, the home where Victor Hugo lived, accompanied by his wife for 16 years, in the mid-nineteenth century.
Museum of the Middle Ages
Also known as the Cluny Museum, it is housed in a building dating from the 15th century and contains one of the most outstanding medieval collections in the world.
Cartier Foundation
It welcomes all types of contemporary art without restrictions of style or discipline, from painting and sculpture to video and photography. Closed during the mounting of new exhibitions, please confirm before visiting.
Cité des Enfants
Within the Cité des Sciences et l’Industrie complex is this learning space specially designed for children from 2 to 7 years old.
Balzac Museum
In the Trocadero district, a few meters from the Eiffel Tower, is this house where Honore de Balzac, one of the great characters of world literature, lived.
National Library
The most important library in the country, next to the Seine, opened to the public in 1998 with a collection of more than 30 million volumes, in addition to a modern digital library.
