Museums in the Paris Region
Note on Colors
In Green: Paris Museums with Free Entrance for Children and Adults
In Blue: Paris Museums Open in the Evening
Paris Museums and Monuments
Arc de Triomphe
http://www.monum.fr/
Place Charles de Gaulle - 75008 Paris
Métro: Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
Bus: lines 22, 30, 31, 52, 73, 92
Open: from October to March from 10:00 to 22:30
Open: from April to September from 9:30 to 23:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros, free for under age 18
Free: on 1st Sunday in month
Open after ceremonies on 8 May, 14 July and 11 November.
Musée de l'Armée
- Hôtel national des Invalides
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint
François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1
November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60
A single ticket is valuable for entry to the Musée de
l'Armée, to the Tombeau de Napoléon Ier, to temporary
exhibitions, to the Musée des Plans-Reliefs and to the
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
Musée des Arts asiatiques-Guimet -
Le Panthéon Bouddhique
http://www.museeguimet.fr/
6, place d'Iéna - 75116 Paris
Métro: Iéna
Bus: lines 63, 82, 32, 22, 30
Phone: 01 56 52 53 00 – Fax: 01 56 52 53 54
Open daily except Tuesday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, ages 18 to 25.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Same address: Musée de la Mode et du Textile and the Musée de la Publicité
http://www.ucad.fr
107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris.
Métro: Palais–Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Parking: Carrousel du Louvre, Rue des Pyramides
Open: Tuesdays to Fridays from 11:00 to 18:00
Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed on Mondays and national holidays.
Talks and guided tours: phone Artdéco Culture on 01 44 55 59 26.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros. Good for all three
museums.
Musée d'Art et histoire du judaïsme
http://www.mahj.org/
71, rue du Temple - 75003 Paris
Phone: 01 53 01 86 60 - Fax: 01 42 72 97 47
Métro : Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, RER:
Châtelet-Les Halles
Bus: lines 29, 38, 47, 75
Open: Monday to Friday from 11:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 10:00 to18:00
Closed: Saturday
Price: 6.80 euros, reduced 4.50 euros 18 to 26 years, free under age 18
Temporary exhibits: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Musée des Arts et métiers
http://www.arts-et-metiers.net/
60, rue Réaumur - 75003 Paris
Phone: 01 53 01 82 00 - Fax: 01 53 01 82 01
Métro: Arts et Métiers, Réaumur-Sébastopol
Bus: lines 20, 38, 39, 47
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursday to 21:30
Closed: Sundays and holidays
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.50 euros, free under age 18
Temporary exhibits: 3 euros, reduced 2 euros
Musée d'Art Moderne
http://www.mam.paris.fr/
Phone: 01 53 67 00 00 - Fax: 01 47 23 35 98
11, avenue du Président Wilson - 75016 Paris
Metro: Iéna, RER Pont de l'Alma
Bus: lines 42, 63, 72, 80, 92
Closed, reopening in late 2004
Open: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 18:00, weekends from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.00 euros; reduced 5.00 euros, free under age 12
Closed for renovations until October 2005 - exhibitions are held
in other locations
Musée des Arts et Traditions populaires,
Centre d'Ethnologie Française
http://www.musee-atp.fr/
6, avenue du Mahatma Gandhi - 75116 Paris (on the edge of the Jardin d'Acclimatation)
Phone: 01 44 17 60 00 - Fax: 01 44 17 60 60
Métro: Sablons
Bus: line 73 from Les Sablons, or line 144, Jardin d'Acclimatation
Open: from 9:45 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros,
Temporary exhibits: 3.80 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Free: under age 18, and for all 1st Sunday
in the month
Situated close to the Jardin d'acclimatation, the museum houses
archives, objects and tools which are displayed in their context and
are part of France's ethnological heritage.
Maison de Balzac
http://www.paris.fr/musees/balzac/
Phone: 01 55 74 41 80
47, rue Raynouard - 75016 Paris
Métro: Passy or La Muette, RER 'C' Ave President
Kennedy-Radio France
Bus: lines 52, 70, 72
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: free for the permanent collection
Temporary exhibits: 3.30 euros, reduced 2.20 euros,
Ages 14 to 26, 1.60 euros, free under age 14
The Maison de Balzac of one of three literary museums in Paris.
Located in the centre of the old village of Passy, this is the only
home of Balazac surviving in the city. The 'Comedie humaine' was
written here in the 1840s.
Baccarat Galerie-Musée
11 place des Etats-Unis - 75016 Paris
Métro: Kleber
Phone: 01 40 22 11 00
Open from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed Tuesdays, Sundays and holidays
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 3.50 euros
Bibliotheque National -
François Mitterrand
http://www.bnf.fr/
Phone: 01 53 79 59 59
Quai François-Mauriac - 75013 Paris
Métro: Quai de la Gare and Bibliothèque
François-Mitterrand
RER 'C': Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand
Bus: lines 62, 89
Open: Monday from 14:00 to 19:00, Tuesday to Saturday from 9:00
to 19:00, and Sunday from 12:00 to 19:00
Closed: 1 January, Easter, 1 and 8 May, Pentecôte, 14 July,
15 August, 1 and 11 November, and 25 December
Access to all above age 16, in the upper studies library
Price: 3.00 euros, two-day carte 4.50 euros
Temporary exhibitions: 5.00 euros
Bibliotheque National - Site
Richelieu
http://www.bnf.fr/
Phone: 01 53 79 59 59
58, rue de Richelieu - 75002 Paris
Métro: Bourse, Palais-Royal or Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 29, 39, 48, 81
Open: Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00, Saturday 10:00 to 17:00
Closed: Sunday, 1 January, Easter, 1 and 8 May, Pentecôte,
14 July, 15 August, 1 and 11 November, and 25 December
Musée
Bourdelle
http://www.paris.fr/musee
s/bourdelle/
Phone: 01 49 54 73 73 - Fax: 01 45 44 21 65
18, rue Antoine Bourdelle - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse-Bienvenüe or Falguière
Bus: lines 58, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: the permanent collection
Price: temporary exhibits, 4.50 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, and
2.00 euros for ages 14 to 26, free under age 14
Musée Carnavalet Museum -
Histoire de Paris
http://www.paris.fsr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 44 59 58 58 - Fax : 01 44 59 58 10
23, rue de Sévigné - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Chemin-Vert
Bus: lines 29, 69, 76, 96
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Free: the permanent collection
Price: temporary exhibits: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, 2.05
euros ages 14 to 26, free under age 14
Museum of art and history of the city of Paris.
Musée de la Contrafaçon
http://ww
w.museums-of-paris.com/musee_en.php?code=326
Phone: 01 56 26 14 00 - Fax: 01 56 26 14 01
16, rue de la Faisanderie - 75016 Paris
Métro: Porte Dauphine, RER 'C': Avenue Foch
Bus: line PC
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 14:00 to 17:30
Price: 2.50 euros
The world of counterfeits
Fondation Henri
Cartier-Bresson
http://www.henricartierbresson.org/
Phone: 01 56 80 27 00 - Fax: 01 56 80 27 01
2, Impasse Lebouis - 75014 Paris
Métro: Gaité or Edgard Quinet
Bus: lines 28, 58 ,88
Open: Wednesday from 13:00 to 20:30,
Thursday, Friday, Sunday from 13:00 to 18:30, Saturday from 11:00 to
18:45
Closed: Monday, Tuesday and public holidays
Closed: all August, from 25 December to 1 January
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros for under 26 and over 60
Free: Wednesday from 18:30 to 20:30
Fondation Cartier - pour l'art
comtemporain
http://www.fondation.cartier.fr/
Phone: 01 42 18 56 51 - Fax: 01 42 18 56 52
261, boulevard Raspail - 75014 Paris
Métro: Raspail or Denfert-Rochereau, RER 'B': Denfert-Rochereau
Bus: lines 38, 68, 88
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 20:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.50 euros,
free under age 10
'Nomade' evenings, Thursday at 20:30, same Price
Resevation phone: 01 42 18 56 72
Catacombes de
Paris
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 43 22 47 63 - Fax: 01 43 22 48 17
1, place Denfert-Rochereau - 75014 Paris
Métro: Denfert-Rochereau, RER 'B': Denfert-Rochereau
Bus: lines 38, 68, 88
Open: from 10:00 to 17:00, last tickets 16:00
Closed: Monday, and certain public holidays
Tafiff: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.30 euros, children 2.50 euros
Musée
Cernuschi
http://www.paris.fr/musees/cernuschi/default.htm
Phone: 01.45.63.50.75
7, avenue Vélasquez - 75008 Paris
Métro: Villiers
Bus: lines 30, 94
Closed: for renovation until June 2005
Open: from 10:00 to 17:40
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: the permanent collection
Sainte-Chapelle
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 53 40 60 97
4, blouevard du Palais - 75001 Paris
Métro: Cité, RER Châtelet or St Michel-Notro Dame
Bus: lines 21; 38, 85, 96
Open: from 9:30 to 18:00, in winter from 9:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under 18 and 1st Sunday of month from
October to March
13th century Gothic church with beautiful stained glass
Musée de la Chasse
http://www.chassenature.org/site_musee/musee-home.html
Phone: 01 53 01 92 40
60, rue des Archives, Hôtel Guénégaud - 75003 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau orHôtel de Ville
Bus: 29, 75
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 4.60 euros, reduced 2.30 euros
Hunting equipment, trophies, paintings
Cité des Sciences et de l'industrie
http://www.cite-sciences.fr/
Phone: 01 40 05 80 00
30, avenue Corentin-Cariou - 75019 Paris
Métro: Porte de la Villette
Bus: 75, PC2, PC3
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00, to 19:00 on Sunday
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 5.50 euros, free under age 7
Includes exhibitions, plus Planétarium, Cite des enfants,
Géode, Cinaxe cinema, submarine Argonaute, Cinema
Louis-Lumiere, Mediatheque, Cyber-base, Cité de la Sante and
Cité des Métiers.
Musée Clemenceau
Phone: 01 45 20 53 41
8, rue Benjamin Franklin - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro or Passy
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63, 82
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 14:00 to 17:00
Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holidays
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, free under age 12
Rare example of 19th century apartment, where the 'Tiger' lived
for 35 years.
Musée Cognacq-Jay
http://www.paris.fr/musees/cognacq_jay
Phone: 01 40 27 07 21 - Fax: 01 40 27 89 44
8, rue Elzévir - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Rambuteau
Bus: lines 29, 69, 76, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and some public holidays
Free: permanent collection
Art collection assembled at beginning of 20th century by owners
of the Samaritaine department store.
Conciergerie
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 53 40 60 93 - Fax: 01 53 40 60 96
2, boulevard du Palais - 75001 Paris
Métro: Cité, Châtelet or Saint-Michel, RER
Châtelet or St Michel-Notre Dame
Bus: lines 21; 38, 85, 96
Open: from 9:30 to 18:00, in winter from 9:00 to 17:00
Closed: 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under 18 and 1st Sunday in month
14th century architecture, revolutionary prison
Musée Curie
http://www.musee.curie.fr/
Phone-fax: 01 42 34 67 50
11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie - 75005 Paris
RER: Luxembourg
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 82, 85
Open: Monday to Friday from 13:30 to 17:00
Closed: weekends, the month of August and public holidays
Free entry
There are guided tours in English and in French. Group visits by
appointment only. Combined tour of Musée Curie and
Panthéon also available.
Crypte
archèologique
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_carnavalet/
Phone: 01 55 42 50 10 - Fax: 01 43 29 30 55
Place du Parvis de Notre Dame - 75004 Paris
Métro: Cité or Saint-Michel
RER: Châtelet-Les Halles or Saint Michel-Notre Dame
Bus: lines 24, 25, 27, 96
Open 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and certain holidays
Price: 3.30 euros, reduced 2.20 euros, children 1.60 euros
Under the square of Notre Dame is the largest archaeological
crypt in Europe. Life and scenes of the Ile de la Cité from
the third century to the nineteenth century. History of the
Cathedral, of Paris, of France. The museum also recounts the life of
the Cité from Lutecia through objects found in the
archaeological crypt, through its marvellous small churches, now
disappeared, and through the splendour of the grand ceremonies staged
here.
Dali Espace
Montmartre
http://www.daliparis.com/
Phone: 01 42 64 40 10 - Fax: 01 42 64 93 17
11, rue Poulbot - 75018 Paris
Métro: Abbesses or Anvers
Bus: lines 54, 80, Montmartrobus
Funicular: from Anvers Métro stop
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00, until 22:00 in
summer
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 5.50 or 4.00 euros
Sculpture, engravings and drawings by Dali
Musée
Dapper
http://www.dapper.com.fr/
Phone: 01 45 00 01 50
35, rue Paul-Valéry - 75016 Paris
Métro: Etoile, Kléber, Victor Hugo or RER Etoile
Bus: 52, 82
Open: Wednesday to Monday from 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Free: under age 16 and last Wednesday of month
Classic and contemorary African art
Palais de la
Découverte
http://www.palais-decouverte.fr/
Phone: 01 56 43 20 20
Avenue Franklin-Roosevelt - 75008 Paris
Métro: Champs Elysées-Clemenceau, RER Invalides
Bus: 28, 42, 72, 73, 83
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 18:00
Open: Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Monday, 1 January, 1 May, 14 July, 15 August, 25 Demember
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 5
Fundamental and contemporary science
Musée Eugène
Delacroix
http://www.musee-delacroix.fr/
Phone: 01 44 41 86 50 - Fax: 01 43 54 36 70
6 rue de Furstenberg - 75006 Paris
Métro: Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Open: 9:30 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday, 1 January, 1 May and 25 December
Price: 5.00 euros, free under age 18
Delacroix's studio-apartment and garden: the artist's last home.
He lived here from 1857 until his death on 13 August 1863. The
master's works and documents relative to his life include paintings,
drawings, engravings, letters, autographs and souvenirs from a trip
to Morocco in 1832.
Musée des Égouts de
Paris
http://www.paris.fr/fr/Environnement/img10/Musees/egouts1.ASP
In front of 93, quai d'Orsay - 75007 Paris
Phone: 01 53 68 27 81 - Fax: 01 53 68 27 89 ok
Métro: Alma-Marceau
RER: Pont de l'Alma
Bus: lines 42, 63, 80, 92
Open: Winter from 11:00 to 16:00, in summer from 11:00 to 17:00
Closed: Thursday, Friday, and last 3 weeks in January
Price: 3.80 euros, reduced 3.05 euros
Five hundred metres into the sewers of Paris to trace their
history and that of Lutecia to the present day. An original way of
exploring Paris, an exhibition area presenting the water cycle in
Paris and its history. Several models and machinery used yesterday
and today. Audio–visual show, exhibition room on the techniques
of the future.
Musée de
l'Erotisme
Phone: 01 42 58 28 73
72, boulevard de Clichy - 75018 Paris
Métro: Blanche
Bus: lines 30, 54, 67
Open: from 10:00 to 02:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros
Collection and exhibitions of erotica
Musée de
l'Eventail
http://www.annehoguet.com/
Phone: 01 42 08 90 20
2, boulevard de Strasbourg - 75010 Paris
Métro: Strasbourg-Saint-Denis
Bus: lines 20, 38, 39, 47
Open: from Monday to Wednesday from 14:00 to 18:00
Closed: Thursday to Sunday, and on public holidays
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros and 3.00 euros
Antique, classic and high fashion fans
Bibliotheque
Forney
http://www.paris-bibliotheques.org/
Phone: 01 42 78 14 80
1, rue du Figuier - 75004 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Pont Marie
Bus: lines 67, 69, 96
Open: Tusday to Saturday from 13:30 to 20:00
Closed: Sunday, Monday, 11 November and 25 December
Price: exhibitions: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.00 euros
Free: the library
Graphics, wallpaper, designs, cards
Fondation Yves Saint
Laurent
http://www.fondation-pb-ysl.net/
Phone: 01 44 31 64 00
5, avenue Marceau - 75008 Paris
Métro: Alma-Marceau
Bus: lines 42, 72, 80, 92
Open: Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and Tuesday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
The Yves Saint Laurent high fashion collection
Musée du parfum Fragonard
http://www.fragonard.com/
Phone: 01 42 60 32 14
9, rue Scribe - 75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra, RER Auber
Bus: lines 20, 21, 27, 42, 68, 81, 95
Open: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 17:30
Open: Sunday and holidays from 9:30 to 16:00
Free entry
5000 years of perfume history
Galléria - Musée de la Mode
http://www.paris.fr/musees/musee_galliera/
Phone: 01 56 52 86 00
10, avenue Pierre-1er-de-Serbie - 75016 Paris
Métro: Iéna or Alma-Marceau
Bus: lines 32, 63, 42, 72, 80, 92
Open: exhibitions: from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 5.00 euros or 3.50 euros, free under age 14
History of mode and costumes, in a 19th century palace
Manufacture des
Gobelins
http://www.museums-of-paris.com/musee_en.php?code=349
Phone: 01 44 54 19 33
42, avenue des Gobelins - 75013 Paris
Métro: Les Gobelins
Bus: lines 27, 47, 83, 91
Open: Tuesday to Thursday, tours at 14:15 and 14:30
Closed: Friday to Monday
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00, free
under age 7
See 17th century tapestries being made today
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais
http://www.rmn.fr/
Recorded Phone Information in French: 01 44 13 17 17
3, avenue du Général Eisenhower - 75008 Paris
Métro: Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau or Franklin-Roosevelt
Bus: lines 28, 32, 42, 49, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
Open: from 10:00 to 20:00, and until 22:00
on Wednesdays
Open: from 13:00 if you do not have reservations
Closed: Tuesdays, 25 December and 1 May
Price: mornings, with resvervation: 11.10 euros, reduced 8.00
euros, free under age 13
Price: afternoons: 10.00 euros. Not free 1st Sunday in month
Reservation Information
At the Paris Tourist Office
11 rue Scribe
75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra and RER Auber
At FNAC, Virgin Megastore, Carrefour, Printemps-Haussmann,
Auchan, Galeries Lafayette, Bon Marché, BHV, Géant
stores in Paris
Please read carefully:
Visits with reservations from 10:00 to 13:00
Visitors have 30 minutes to enter the exhibition, starting on the
hour indicated on their tickets.
Visits without reservations from 13:00 to 20:00 (ticket sales stop at 19:15),
Wednesday until 22:00 (ticket sales stop at 21:15)
Reservations can not be made directly at the Galeries
nationales du Grand Palais.
Reservations can not be made on the actual day of the
visit nor the day before.
Prices: may vary depending on the exhibitions
Musée
Grevin
http://www.grevin.com/
Phone: 01 47 70 85 05
10, boulevard Montmartre - 75009 Paris
Métro: Grands Boulevards
Bus: lines 20, 39, 48
Open: Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 17:30
Open: weekends and public holidays from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 16.00 euros, reduced 13.80 euros, and children 9.00
euros, reduced 8.50 euros
300 famous Parisians in wax
Halle
Saint-Pierre
http://hallesaintpierre.org/
Phone: 01 42 58 72 89
2, rue Ronsard - 75018 Paris
Métro: Anvers or Abbesses
Bus: 30, 54, 85
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.50 euros
Exhibitions of art 'brut,' singular or outsider
Musée
Hébert
http://www.rmn.fr/
Phone: 01 42 22 23 82 - Fax: 01 45 48 42 39
85, rue du Cherche-Midi - 75006 Paris
Métro: Vanneau or Saint Placide
Open: Monday, Wednesday to Friday, from 12:30 to 18:00
Open: weekends from 14:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 3.00 euros, reduced 2.30 euros
Works by Hébert, 19th century painter
Musée
Henner
http://www.rmn.fr/
Phone: 01 47 63 42 73 - Fax: 01 43 80 00 82
43, avenue de Villiers - 75017 Paris
Métro: Monceau, Malesherbes or Wagram
Bus: lines 31, 94
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 12:00, from 14:00 to 17:00
Closed: Monday
Free entry
Home of 19th century portraitist
Musée de l'Histoire de
France - Hôtel de Rohan
http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/
Phone: 01 40 27 60 96 - Fax: 01 40 27 66 45
87, rue Vieille du Temple - 75003 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville or Saint-Paul
Bus: lines 29, 75
Open: Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:30.
Open: weekends from 14:00 to 17:30. Closed Tuesday and holidays.
Price: 3.00 euros, reduced 2.30 euros
Note - at this address only until the start of 2005. After, at
Hôtel de Soubise, 60, rue des Francs–Bourgeois
Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle
http://www.mnhn.fr/
Phone: 01 40 79 56 01 - Fax: 01 40 79 39 09
36, rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - 75005 Paris
58, rue Cuvier, Jardin des Plantes
Métro: Jussieu or Austerlitz
Bus: lines 24, 57, 61,63, 89 et 91
Jardin des Plantes: open from 7:30 to 19:45, free entry
Ménagerie: open 9:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.50 euros, free under age 4
Closed: Tuesday, all below:
Grande Galerie de l'évolution: open from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros, free under age 18
Galeries de paléontologie et d'anatomie: open from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, free under age 18
Galerie de minéralogie, géologie: open from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3;00 euros, free under age 4
Serres: open from 13:00 to 17:00
Price: 2.50 euros, reduced 1.50 euros, free under age 4
Once the Royal garden for medicinal plants, created in 1635, now
has exhibitions and is site of higher learning
Musée de
l'Homme
http://www.mnhn.fr/
Phone: 01 44 05 72 72
17, place du Trocadéro - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63, 72, 82
Open: Monday, Wednesday to Friday from 9:45 to 17:15
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 18:30
Closed: Tuesday and public holidays
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros, 3.00 euros under age 16
European ethnology, anthropology, prehistory
Hôtel de
Ville
http://www.paris.fr/
Phone: 01 42 76 50 49
Place de l'Hôtel de Ville - 75004 Paris
Métro: Hôtel de Ville
Bus: lines 38, 47, 67, 69, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, 85, 96
Open: Monday to Friday, by reservation
Free
Historic and modern Paris' main city hall, rebuilt after 1871
Maison de Victor Hugo
http://www.paris.fr/musees/maison_de_victor_hugo/default.htm
Phone: 01 42 72 10 16 - Fax: 01 42 72 06 64
Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, 6, place des Vosges - 75004 Paris
Métro: Bastille, Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert
Bus: lines 20, 29, 65, 69, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Mondays and public holidays
Price: free, except for special exhibitions, free under age 14
Victor Hugo's Paris apartment
Institut du monde arabe
http://www.imarabe.org/
Phone: 01 40 51 38 38 - Fax 01 43 54 76 45
1, rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard
Place Mohammed-V - 75005 Paris
Métro: Jussieu or Cardinal-Lemoine
Bus: lines 24, 63, 67, 86, 87, 89
Open 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and 1 May
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Museum devoted to Arab art
Hôtel des Invalides
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint
François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1
November and 25 December
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60
A single ticket is valuable for entry to the Musée de
l'Armée, to the Tombeau de Napoléon Ier, to temporary
exhibitions, to the Musée des Plans-Reliefs and to the
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération.
Musée
Jacquemart-Andre
http://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/
Phone: 01 45 62 11 59 - Fax: 01 45 62 16 36
158, boulevard Haussmann - 75008 Paris
Métro: Miromesnil or Saint-Philippe du Roule.
Bus: 22, 43, 84
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00, on Monday to 21:30
Price: 9.50 euros, reduced 6.50 euros ages 7-17, free under age 7
Grand collection of the Jacquemarts
Jeu de Paume
http://www.jeudepaume.org/
Phone: 01 47 03 12 50 - Fax: 01 47 03 12 51
1, place de la Concorde - 75008 Paris
Métro: Concorde
Bus: lines 24, 42, 72, 73, 84, 94
Open: Wednesday to Friday from 12:00 to 19:00, on Tuesday to 21:30
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 19:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Photos from 19th to 21st centuries, videos, installations
Fondation Le Corbusier
http://www.fondationle corbusier.asso.fr/
Phone: 01 42 88 41 53
Villas La Roche et Jeanneret
8-10, square du Dr-Blanche - 75016 Paris
Métro: Jasmin
Bus: line 22
Open: Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 12:30
Open: Monday to Thursday from 13:30 to 18:00, to 17:00 on Friday
Closed: weekends, August, from 23 December to 1 January
Price: 2.40 Euros, reduced 1.60 euros
Two villas built by Le Courbusier in 1923
Mémorial du Maréchal
Leclerc Hauteclocque
et de la Libération de Paris - Musée Jean Moulin
http://www.paris.fr/musees/memorial/index.html
Phone: 01 40 64 39 44
In Atlantique garden above Gare Montparnasse
23, allée de la deuxième DB - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse, Edgar Quinet or Gaité
Bus: lines 28, 58, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:40
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price temporary exhibitions: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Free: permanent exhibition
History of WWII, Paris liberation
Musée de l'Ordre de la
Libération
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint
François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1
November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60
Free: under age 12
A single ticket is valuable for entry to the Musée de
l'Armée, to the Tombeau de Napoléon Ier, to temporary
exhibitions, to the Musée des Plans-Reliefs and to the
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération.
Musée du
Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/
Phone: 01 40 20 50 50 - Fax: 01 40 20 54 42
Auto reply: in 5 languages: 01 40 20 51 51
Place du Palais-Royal - 75001 Paris
Main entry: through the pyramid - 9:00 to 22:00
Enter: from the place Palais-Royal, through to the pyramid, from
9:00 to 18:00
Enter: from the galerie Carrousel, 99, rue de Rivoli, from 9:00
to 22:00
Métro: Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre
Bus: lines 21, 27, 29, 39, 48, 69, 72, 81, 95
Open: from 9:00 to 18:00, Monday and
Wednesday to 21:45
Closed: Tuesday and some holidays
Price: 8.50 euros from 9:00 to 18:00, 6.00 euros from 18:00 to
21:45
Price: reduced after 18:00 and Sunday, free under age 18
Free: 1st Sunday of the month and 14 July
Entry: to Musée Eugène–Delacroix on same day
is included
Ancient home of French kings now houses collections from Eygptian
history to 1848, including the Louvre's own history.
Musée du Luxembourg
http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/
Phone: 01 42 34 25 95 - Fax : 01 45 44 57 33
19, rue de Vaugirard - 75006 Paris
Métro: St-Sulpice, RER 'B' Luxembourg
Bus: 38, 84, 58, 89
Open: Monday, Friday, weekends from 11:00 to 22:00
Open: Wednesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 19:00
Open: 1 and 11 November, 25 December, 1 January, 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 9.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros, free under age 8
Temporary exhibitions in the Senat's museum
Musée Maillol -
Fondation Dina Vierny
http://www.museemaillol.com/
Phone: 01 42 22 59 58
59-61 rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Rue du Bac
Bus: lines 63, 69, 84, 94
Open: from 11:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday and holidays
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros, free under age 16
Contains the Maillol and Dina Vierny collections
Musée de la
Marine
http://www.musee-marine.fr/
Phone: 01 53 65 69 53
17, place du Trocadéro - 75016 Paris
Métro: Trocadéro
Bus: lines 22, 30, 32, 63
Open: Wednesday to Monday from10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday, 1 May, 25 December and 1 January
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.40 euros, free under age 6
France's marine museum
Musée
Marmottan-Monet
http://www.marmottan.com/
Phone: 01 44 96 50 33
2, rue Louis-Boilly - 75016 Paris
Métro: La Muette
Bus: lines 22, 32, 52
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 8
Collection by the impressionist Claude Monet
Musée de la Mode et du
Textile
Same address: Musée des Arts Décoratifs
and the Musée de la Publicité
http://www.ucad.fr
Phone: 0144 55 57 50 - Fax: 01 44 55 57 84
105-107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Métro: Palais-Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Open: from Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 18:00 , Wednesday
to 21:00
Open: Weekends from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and national holidays.
Talks and guided tours: phone Artdéco Culture on 01 44 55 59 26.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros for ages 18-25, free under age 18
Creations by the 20th century's top designers<:p>
Musée de la
Monnaie
http://www.monnaiedeparis.fr/
Phone: 01 40 46 55 35
11, quai Conti - 75006 Paris
Métro: Pont-Neuf
Bus: lines 24, 27
Open: from Tuesday to Friday from 11:00 to 17:30, weekends from 12:00 to 17:30
Closed: Monday
Visits by reservation, Wednesday and Friday at 14:15
Price: 8.00 euros, reduced 6.00 euros, free under age 16
France's money, from the Renaissance until today
Musée de
Montmartre
http://www.paris.fr/musees
Phone: 01 49 25 89 37
12, rue Cortot - 75018 Paris
Métro: Lamarck-Caulaincourt, Abbesses
Bus: lines 80 and Montmartrobus
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 3.50 euros
Features artists who lived on Montmartre
Musée du
Montparnasse
Phone: 01 42 22 91 96
21, avenue du Maine - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse
Bus: lines 82, 92, 94, 95, 96
Open: only during temporary exhibitions
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 12:30 to 19:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Features the Montparnasse school of art
Musée Gustave
Moreau
http://www.musee-moreau.fr/
14 rue La Rochefoucauld - 75009 Paris
Phone: 01 48 74 38 50 – Fax: 01 48 74 18 71
Métro: Trinité
Bus: 32, 42, 43, 81, 89
Open daily from 10:00 to 12:45, and from 14:00 to 17:15
Closed Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros for ages 18-26,
Free: under age 18, and 1st Sunday in month
Contains the major works by Gustave Moreau
Musée du Moyen Age -
Thermes de Cluny
http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/
Phone: 01 53 73 78 16 - Fax: 01 43 25 85 27
6, place Paul Painlevé - 75005 Paris
Métro: Saint-Michel or Cluny-la-Sorbonne
RER: C Saint-Michel or RER B Cluny-La Sorbonne
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 63, 85, 86, 87
Open: from 9:15 to 17:45
Closed: Tuesday
Tarif: 6.70 euros, reduced 5.20 euros, reduced for all on Sunday
Free: under age 18, and 1st Sunday of month
The museum is composed of two remarkable buildings: the Thermes
gallo-romains (Gallo-Roman thermal baths, I-III centuries) and the
hôtel des Abbés de Cluny (Mansion of the abbots of
Cluny, XVth century). The museum houses a splendid collection
covering the entire range of medieval art (Kings of Judah heads,
Notre-Dame de Paris; the tapestry of the Dame à la Licorne
(Lady with Unicorn tapestry), stained-glass windows from the XVth to
the end of the XVth century, fabrics, furniture
Musée de la
Musique
http://www.cite-musique.fr/
Phone: 01 44 84 45 00
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès - 75019 Paris
Métro: Porte-de-Pantin
Bus: lines 75, PC2, PC3
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.50 euros, reduced 5.20 euros, 3.20 euros under age 18
Free: under age 18 for the permanent
collection
Music from the Renaissance to the 19th century, 900 instruments
Musée Nissim De
Camondo
http://www.ucad.fr/
Phone: 01 53 89 06 50
63, rue de Monceau - 75017 Paris
Métro: Villiers
Bus: lines 30, 94
Open: Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00
Closed: Monday and Tuesday
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros
18th century objects and furniture in 19th century townhouse
Notre Dame de
Paris
http://www.cathedraledeparis.
com/
Phone 01 42 34 56 10
6, place du Parvis-de-Notre-Dame - 75004 Paris
Métro: Cité, Saint-Michel
Bus: lines 21, 24, 38, 47, 85, 96
Open: Monday to Saturday from 8:00 to 18:45, Sunday 8:00 to 19:45
Towers: October to March, from 10:00 to 17:30, April to
June from 9:30 to 19:30, July and August from 9:00 to 19:30 and to 23:00 on weekends, September from 9:30 to
19:30
Price: 6.10 euros, reduced 4.10 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month and from October to March
Musée de Notre-Dame
Phone: 01 43 25 42 92
10, rue du Cloître Notre-Dame - 75004 Paris
Open: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday and some holidays, from 14:30 to 18:00
Closed: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Price: 2.50 euros, reduced 1.50 euros
History of the cathedral
Musée de l'Opéra,
Bibliothèque - Palais Garnier
http://www.opera-de paris.fr/
Phone: 01 47 42 07 02
Place de l'Opéra - 75009 Paris
Métro: Opéra, Chaussée-d'Antin, and RER 'A' Auber
Bus: lines 20, 21, 22, 27, 29, 42, 52, 53, 66, 68, 81, 89, 95
Open: Museum - daily from 10:00 to 17:00, except for
matinée performances
Open: Library - Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 17:00
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros - inluded for Opéra visit
In addition to the 19th century theatre architecture, there is
also the museum of the Opéra and its library.
Musée de
l'Orangerie
Phone: 01 42 97 48 16 - Fax: 01 42 61 30 82
Jardin des Tuileries - 75001 Paris
Métro: Concorde
http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/
Musée d'Orsay
http://www.musee-orsay.fr/
Phone: 01 40 49 48 14
1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur – 75007 Paris
Métro: Solférino or RER C Musée d'Orsay
Open: from 10:00 to 18:00, Sunday from 9:00 to 18:00, Thursday until 21:45
Closed: Monday and 25 December
Price: 7.00 euros, redeuced 5.00 euros,
free under age 18
Price: 5.00 euros on Sundays after 16:15 and Thursdays after 20:00
Built inside the former Orsay train station, the museum displays
a series of collections featuring artistic works from the second half
of the 19th century in the fields of painting, sculpture,
architecture, city planning, decorative arts, and photography.
Palais de le Porte Dorée
- Aquarium
http://www.musee-afriqueoce
anie.fr/
Phone: 01 44 74 84 80 - Fax: 01 43 43 27 53
293, avenue Daumesnil - 75012 Paris
Métro: Porte-Dorée
Bus: 46 and PC
Open: from 10:00 to 17:15
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
5000 species in the tropical aguarium in Art Déco
building
Palais de Tokyo - Centre d'art
contemporain
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/
Phone: 01 47 23 38 86
13, avenue du Président-Wilson - 75016 Paris
Métro: Alma-Marceau or Iéna
Bus: lines 32, 42, 63, 72, 92
Open: Tuesday to Sunsay from 12:00 to midnight
Closed: Monday
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Today's art, video, installations
Panthéon
http://www.monum.fr/
Phone: 01 44 32 18 00
Place du Panthéon - 75005 Paris
Métro: RER Luxembourg
Bus: lines 21, 27, 38, 84, 89
Open: from 10:00 to 17:45, in winter to 17:15
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month,
October to March
'Nécropole' of France's greats
Pavillon des
Arts
http://www.paris.f
r/musees/pavillon_des_arts
Phone: 01 42 33 82 50 - Fax: 40 28 93 22
101, rue Rambuteau - 75001 Paris
Métro: Châtelet-Les Halles
Bus: 29, 38, 47
Open: from 11:30 to 18:30
Closed: Monday and holidays
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 14
Open for temporary exhibitions only
Musée de la
Poste
http://www.laposte.fr/musee
Phone: 01 42 79 24 24
34, boulevard de Vaugirard - 75015 Paris
Métro: Montparnasse-Bienvenüe
Bus: lines 88, 92,94, 95, 96
Open: Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Sunday and public holidays
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.50 euros, free under age 12
Postal collection and temporary exhibitions
Patrimoine Photographique -
Hôtel de Sully
http://www.patrimoine-photo.org/
Phone: 01 42 74 47 75
62, rue Saint Antoine - 75004 Paris
Métro: Saint-Paul or Bastille
Bus: lines 69, 76, 96
Open: from 10:00 to 18:30
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Open for temporary photographic exhibitions only
Pavillon de
l'Arsenal
http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com/
Phone: 01 42 76 33 97 - Fax: 01 42 76 26 32
21, boulevard Morland - 75004 Paris
Métro: Sully-Morland ou Bastille
Bus: lines 87, 86, 67
Open: Tuesday to Saturday from 10:30 to 18:30
Open: on Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00
Closed: Mondays and on 1 January
Free: permanent exhibition: 'Paris, a
Guided Visit'
Petit Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Open Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Métro: Champs Elysées-Clemenceau
Maison Européene de la
Photographie
http://www.mep-fr.org/
5/7 rue de Fourcy - 75004 Paris.
Phone: 01 44 78 75 00 - Fax: 01 44 78 75 15
Métro: Saint-Paul or Pont Marie.
Bus: lines 67, 69, 96, 76.
Open: from 11:00 to 20:00
Closed: Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 2.50 euros
Free: under age 8, and on Wednesday from
17:00 to 20:00
Musée des
Plans-Reliefs
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban
129, rue de Grenelle - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint
François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open: daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1
November and 25 Décember
Open: October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open: from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros for age 18-26 and over 60
Free: under age 18
A single ticket is valuable for entry to the Musée de
l'Armée, to the Tombeau de Napoléon Ier, to temporary
exhibitions, to the Musée des Plans-Reliefs and to the
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
Musée
Picasso
http://www.musee-picasso.fr/
Phone: 01 42 71 25 21 - Fax: 01 48 04 75 46
Hôtel Salé - 5, rue de Thorigny - 75003 Paris
Métro: Saint-Sébastien Froissart, Chemin Vert or Saint-Paul
Bus: lines 29, 69, 75, 96
Open: 9:30 to 17:30 from Ocober to April, and 9:30 to 18:00 from
April to October
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, free under age 18
Price special expos: 6.70 euros, reduced and Sunday 5.20 euros
Free: under age 18, 1st Sunday in month
Closed: Tuesday, 25 December and 1 January
The museum is located in a superb XVIIth century mansion.
Contains an important collection of works by Picasso, including
paintings, 160 sculptures, collages, relief paintings, ceramics,
prints, notebooks, as well as primitive objets d'art, photographs,
plus works by Corot, Cézanne, le Douanier Rousseau, Matisse,
Braque - which belonged to Picasso's private collection
Centre Pompidou
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/
Phone: 01 44 78 12 33
Place Georges-Pompidou - 75004 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau, Châtelet or Hôtel de Ville
Open: Tuesday to Monday from 11:00 to 21:00, to 23:00 Thursday
Closed: Tuesday and 1 May
Price: exhibitions from 5.00 to 9.00 euros, day pass 10.00 euros
Free: under age 18
Price: Musée d'Art Moderne, 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros
Media centre, library, graphic arts, Brancusi Atelier, temporary
exhibitions
Musée de la
Poupée
http://www.museedelapoupee
paris.com/
Phone: 01 42 72 73 11
Impasse Berthaud, just off 22, rue Rambuteau - 75003 Paris
Métro: Rambuteau
Bus: lines 29, 38, 47
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, 3.00 euros for ages 3-18
Permanent collection of 500 French dolls, and temporary
exhibitions
Musée de la
Publicité
http://www.museedelapub.org/
Phone: 01 44 55 57 50 - Fax: 01 44 55 57 84
107, rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
Access for the disabled via a lift at 105, rue de Rivoli
Métro: Palais-Royal, Tuileries, Pyramides
Bus: lines 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95
Open: 11:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Friday, Wednesday to 21:00
Open: Weekends from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and national holidays.
Talks and guided tours: phone Artdéco Culture on 01 44 55 59 26.
Price: 6.00 euros, reduced 4.50 euros; for ages 18-25, free under age 18
Collection of advertising items
Musée
du quai Branly
http://www.quaibranly.fr/
37, quai Branly
75007 – Paris
Phone: 01 56 61 70 00
Musée
Rodin
http://www.musee-rodin.fr/
Phone: 01 44 18 61 10 - Fax: 01 44 18 61 30
Hôtel Biron - 77, rue de Varenne - 75007 Paris
Métro: Varenne
Bus: lines 82, 92
Open: from 9:30 to 16:45, October to April
Open: from 9:45 to 17:45, April to October
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, just garden 1 euro
Free: under age 18 and 1st Sunday in month
A comprehensive collection of works by Auguste Rodin is presented
in his mansion and in the adjoining garden
Musée Roland
Garros
http://www.
fft.fr/rolandgarros/en/tenniseumMaq.html
Phone: 01 47 43 48 48
2, avenue Gordon-Bennett - 75016 Paris
Métro: Porte d'Auteuil
Bus: lines 32, 52, PC1
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 7.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros for under age 18
Multimedia tennis museum and stadium visits
Musée de la sculpture en
plein air
Phone: 43 26 91 90
Quai Saint-Bernard - 75005 Paris
Métro: Gare d'Austerlitz
Bus: lines 24, 63, 89
Open: 24/24, free access
The garden created in 1980 on the banks of the Seine presents
sculptures from the second half of the twentieth century: Brancusi,
Gilioli, César
Tombeau de Napoléon -
Saint-Louis des Invalides
http://www.invalides.org/
North entry: via the esplanade des Invalides
South entry: via the place Vauban - 75007 Paris
Métro: Latour-Maubourg, Invalides, Saint
François-Xavier, Varenne
RER: line 'C' Invalides
Bus: lines 28, 63, 69, 80, 82, 83, 87, 92, 93
Phone: 01 44 42 48 14 - Fax: 01 44 42 30 88
Open daily except 1st Monday in month, and 1 January, 1 May, 1
November and 25 Décember
Open October to March from 10:00 to 17:00
Open from April to September from 10:00 to 18:00
Price: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.00 euros up to 26 years and over 60
A single ticket is valuable for entry to the Musée de
l'Armée, to the Tombeau de Napoléon, to temporary
exhibitions, to the Musée des Plans-Reliefs and to the
Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
Tour Eiffel
http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/
Phone: 01 44 11 23 23
Champ de Mars - 75007 Paris
Métro: Bir-Hakeim
Bus: lines 42, 69, 82, 87
Open: from 9:30 to 23:00, in summer
from 9:00 to 24:00
Price: 2nd stage, walk up stairs, 3.50 euros
Elevator: 1st stage, 4.00 euros, reduced 2.20 euros
Elevator: 2nd stage, 7.30 euros, reduced 4.00 euros
Elevator: 3rd stage, 10.40 euros, reduced 5.70 euros
3rd stage is 276 meters above Paris. Opened in 1889 for 10 years
and still standing high
Musée de la Vie
Romantique
http://ww
w.paris.fr/musees/Vie_romantique/default.htm
Phone: 01 55 31 95 67 - Fax: 01 48 74 28 42
Maison Renan Scheffer - 16, rue Chaptal - 75009 Paris
Métro: Saint George, Place Blanche or Pigalle
Bus: lines 67, 68, 74
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00. to 18:00.
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Free: permanent collection
Price for exhibitions: 7.00 euros, reduced 5.50 euros
Collection evoking the world of George Sand
Musée du
Vin
http://www.museeduvinparis.com/
Phone: 01 45 25 63 26
Rue des Eaux, 5, square Charles-Dickens - 75016 Paris
Métro: Passy
Bus: line 72
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 8.00 euros, includes 1 wine
Free: for restaurant diners
History of French wine
Musée
Zadkine
http://www.paris
.fr/musees/zadkine/default.htm
Phone: 01 55 42 77 20
100 bis, rue d'Assas - 75006 Paris
Métro: Notre-Dame-des-Champs, RER 'B' Port-Royal
Bus: lines 58, 82, 83, 91
Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday and public holidays
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros
Free: permanent collection
Ossip Zadkine's country house and museum
Museums in the Paris Region
Giverny - Musée d'Art
Américain
http://www.maag.org/
Phone: 02.32.51.94.65 - Fax 33 2 32 51 94 67
99, rue Claude Monet - 27620 Giverny
Driving: autoroute A13 to sortie 14, direction of Vernon, then Giverny
SNCF: by train from Gare Saint-Lazare direction Rouen, to Vernon station
Then bus or taxis , or rent bicycles at the station
Open: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed: Monday
Price: 5.50 euros, reduced 4.00 euros, ages 12-18, 3.00 euros,
Free: under age 12, 1st Sunday in month
Château de
Versailles
http://www.chateauversailles.fr/
Phone: 01 30 83 77 84 - Fax: 01 30 83 77 90
78000 Versailles
RER: line 'C' to Versailles-rive-gauche-château
SNCF train: from Gare Montparnasse to Versailles-Chantiers
SNCF train: from Gare Saint-Lazare to de Versailles-rive-droite
Bus: bus line 171 from Pont de Sévres Métro
Open: the park, from 8:00 to 19:00, November to March from 9:00 to 17:30
Open: the Château, from 9:00 to 18:30
Open: on Wednesdays until 22:00
Closed: Monday and certain holidays
Price: Château, 7.50 euros, reduced 5.30 euros, free under age 18
Price: King's apartment: extra 4.50 euros
Free: entry to the park
Grand and Petit Trianon: from 12:00 to 18:30, November to March
from 12:00 to 17:30
Price: 5.00 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, free under age 18
Château
d'Ecouen
http://www.musee-renaissance.fr/
Phone: 01 34 38 38 50 - Fax: 01 34 38 38 78
Château d'Ecouen - 95440 Ecouen
SNCF train: from Gare du Nord, via Persan-Beaumont-Luzarches par
Monsoult, to Ecouen-Ezanville; Then bus 269 to Mairie d'Ecouen
RER: 'D' via Orry la ville, to Garges Sarcelles, then bus 269 to
Château d'Ecouen
Driving: 19 kms from Paris via autoroute A1, exit number 3, on
N1 to Amiens Beauvais, then on N16, direction Chantilly
Open: from 9:45 to 12:30, and from 14:00 to 17:15
Closed: Tuesday, and 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Open: the park is open daily except 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Price: summer, 5.20 euros, reduced 3.80 euros for ages 18-25 and
for everybody on Sunday
Price: winter, 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros for ages 18-25 and
for everybody on Sunday
Guided tour: the castle and collections on weekends at 15:30
A remarkable selection of works of art from the XVI century:
furniture, ceramics, enamels, tapestries (including the exceptional
hanging retracing the History of David and Bathsheba) silverware and
items in gold, paintings and armor, presented in one the most
magnificent French castles of the XVI century, the original decor of
which has been partly preserved: decorated ceilings, painted friezes
and fireplaces, ornamental tiling.
Fontainebleau
http://www.musee-cha
teau-fontainebleau.fr/
Phone: 01 60 71 50 70 - Fax: 01 60 71 50 71
77300 Fontainebleau
SNCF: from Gare de Lyon. Ask for the train-bus ticket Fontainebleau-Avon
Driving: from Paris,take autoroute A6
Open: from October to May from 9:30 to 17:00, in summer to 18:00
Closed: Tuesday, and 1 January, 1 May, 25 December
Garden: open daily, from 9:00 to 17:00, 18:00 or 19:00
Price: 5.50 euros, free under age 18, and
free 1st Sunday in month
Small apartment circuit: Musée Napoléon, 3 euros or
2.30 euros
Eight centuries of history of the French Kings from Saint Louis
to Napoléon III: Renaissance room, royal suites; Museum of
Napoléon the First, entirely devoted to the Emperor and his
family for the period between 1804 and 1815, Chinese Museum and the
apartments of the Empress Eugénie (open on Sundays). The
museum also houses a splendid collection of paintings by Rosso,
Primatice, Dubois, Boucher
Magny les
Hameaux
http://www.rmn.f
r/fr/02musees/index-liste.html
Phone: 01 39 30 72 72 - Fax: 01 30 64 79 55
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - 78114 Magny-les-Hameaux
RER: 'C' to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines or RER 'B' to
Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse
Driving: 25 km southwest from Paris
Open: from March to October from 10:30 to 18:30
Open: from October to March from10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 17:30
Closed: Tuesday and some public holidays
Price: 3.00 euros, reduced 2.30 euros
Prints, paintings, antique books and portraits retracing the
history of the abbey of Port-Royal and the Jansenist movement in the
XVII century.
Rueil Malmaison
http://www.chateau-malmaison.fr/
Phone: 01 41 29 05 55 - Fax: 01 41 29 05 56
Château de Malmaison
avenue du Château - 92500 Rueil-Malmaison
RER: 'A' to La Défense-Grande Arche, then autobus 258 to
Malmaison or Bois Préau
Open: from October to March, from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 to 17:15
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 12:30 and from 13:30 17:45
Open: from April to Sept, from 10:00 to 17:45
Open: weekends from 10:00 to 18:15
Open: park, from 10:00 to 18:00, until 18:30 in summer
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.50 euros, reduced 3.00 euros, Sundays 3.00 euros for all
Free: under age 18
Musee des Antiquites St
Germain-en-Laye
http://www.musee-anti
quitesnationales.fr/
Phone: 01 39 10 13 00
Château - Place Charles de Gaulle, 78000 Saint-;Germain-en-Laye
RER: line 'A' to Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Open: from Wednesday to Monday, from 9:00 to 17:15
Open: weekends, and May-October, from 10:00 to 18:15
Closed: Tuesday
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros, on Sunday 2.60 euros for all
Free: under age 18
Archeology of France: from the first man-made tools to the age of
Charlemagne. Sections: Prehistory, the Metal Age; the Celts, the
Gallo-Romans, the Merovingians, compared archeology.
The museum is located in the castle where François I,
Henri IV and Louis XIII lived and where Louis XIV was born
Musée Ceramique de
Sèvres
http://www.rmn.f
r/fr/02musees/index-liste.html
Phone: 01 41 14 04 20 - Fax : 01 45 34 67 88
Place de la Manufacture - 92310 Sèvres
Métro: Pont de Sèvres
Bus: lines 169, 171, 179, from Pont de Sèvres
Tram 2: line La Défense to Issy-les-Mollineaux
Open: Wednesday to Monday from 10:00 to 17:00
Closed: Tuesday, and 1. Jan, 1 May, 1. Nov, 25 Dec
Price: 4.00 euros, reduced 2.60 euros. All other Sundays, Price reduced
Free: under age 18, and for all on 1st
Sunday in month
European collections of potteries from the Middle Ages to the
XVIII century. Islamic ceramics. European collections of earthenware
and China from the XVI to the XX century.
See also my Paris Museum Tips page.
