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Museums in Paris, France

This is a listing of the most known museums in Paris

 

Remember that:

Museums usually open from 10am to 6pm

Museums in Paris usually closed on Monday or Tuesday

Find our selection of best Museums in Paris in our Best of Paris Guide

Musée de la Mode et du Textile

Address : 107, rue de Rivoli
Opening hours : Tuesdays to sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed on Mondays.
Phone : 01 44 55 57 50
Metro/Bus : Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre,Tuileries, Pyramides. Bus: 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95. Disabled access to museum via lift at 105, rue de Rivoli.

Resulting from the fusion of the collections belonging to the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD) and the Union Française des Arts du Costume (UFAC), the Musée de la Mode et du Textile is the heir to a tradition forged by the dynamics of private initiative...

Musées de la Parfumerie Fragonard

Address : 9, rue Scribe
Opening hours : Monday to Saturday from 9.30 a.m to 5.30 p.m
Phone : 01 47 42 04 56
Metro/Bus : M° Opéra (lignes 3, 7 et 8) - M° Richelieu Drouot (lignes 8 et 9)

In the Museum of the Perfume - le Musée de la Parfumerie - Fragonard, in french, discover  the history of perfume from the Egyptians to the nineteenth century through bottles, pots-pourris, incense burners, paintings, test tubes...

Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Paris

Address : 107, rue de Rivoli
Opening hours : Tuesday to Friday from 11.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m - Wednesdays from 11.00 a.m to 9.00 p.m - Saturdays and Sundays from 10.00 a.m to 6.00 p.m
Phone : +33 (0)1 44 55 57 50
Metro/Bus : Louvre or Palais Royal - Bus 21, 27, 39, 48, 68, 72, 81, 95

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs -manage four museums: the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile, the Musée de la Publicité and the Musée Nissim de Camondo....

Musée du Luxembourg

Address : 19 rue de Vaugirard
Opening hours : daily from 10am – 8pm, and until10pm on Fridays and Saturdays.
Phone : 01 40 13 62 00
Metro/Bus : Metro: line 4, to Saint Sulpice; line 10, to Mabillon // Bus: lines 58, 84, 89, to Luxembourg ; Lines 63,70, 87, 86, 93, to Saint Sulpice

The Musée du Luxembourg is today one of the leading exhibition spaces in Paris, enabling its numerous visitors to enjoy the masterpieces of Botticelli, Raphaël, Titian, Arcimboldo, Veronese, Gauguin, Matisse, Vlaminck, Modigliani and lately Lucas Cranach...

Musée d'Orsay

Address : 62, rue de Lille
Opening hours : The museum is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9.30am to 6pm and on Thursdays from 9.30am to 9.45pm
Phone : +33 (0)1 40 49 48 14
Metro/Bus : Buses: 24, 63, 68, 69, 73, 83, 84, and 94- Métro: line 12, Solférino station - RER: line C, Musée d'Orsay station

The Orsay Museum - Musée d'Orsay: artistic creation of the western world from 1848 to 1914.

National Museum of the Middle Ages

Address : 6, place Paul Painlevé
Opening hours : Every day except Tuesdays from 9.15 a.m to 5.45 p.m
Phone : +33(0)1 53 73 78 00
Metro/Bus : M° Cluny La Sorbonne (ligne 10), M° St Michel (ligne 4), M° Odéon (lignes 4 et 10) - Bus 21, 27, 38, 63, 85, 86, 87

The Musée National du Moyen-Age in french is located in the Gallo-Roman baths and the Hôtel des Abbés de Cluny (15th century): houses antique sculptures and one of the richest mediaeval collections in the world. Medieval garden...

Palais de Tokyo

Address : 13, avenue du Président-Wilson
Opening hours : Open: daily (except Monday), noon-midnight /// In 2011, during the renovation, the exhibitions continue and are open from noon to 9 pm.
Phone : 01 47 23 54 01
Metro/Bus : Métro: Alma-Marceau or Iéna

The Palais de Tokyo, an art deco building that dates from 1937, reopened in 2001 after new interior design by french architects Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal who selected rough and ready style (concrete floor, wall and roof)...

Petit Palais

Address : 5, avenue Dutuit
Opening hours : every day except monday from 10am to 6pm
Phone : 01 53 43 40 00
Metro/Bus : Métro : Champs-Elysées-Clemenceau (ligne 1 ou 13) ou Concorde (ligne 1, 8 ou 12) RER : ligne C, station Invalides ; ligne A, station Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile Bus : 42,72, 73, 80, 93

After a five-year expansion project, the Beaux Arts-style Museum, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris reopened its doors in 2005...

Picasso Museum

Address : 5, rue de Thorigny
Opening hours : Open from Tuesday to Sunday. Closed on 25th December, 1st January and 1st May. Tuesday – Friday: 11.30am – 6pm Saturday – Sunday: 9.30am – 6pm Open until 9pm every third Friday of the month.
Phone : 01 42 71 25 21
Metro/Bus : Metro: Saint-Paul, Chemin-Vert, Filles du Calvaire - Bus:29, 69, 76, 93

The Musée Picasso is situated in the heart of historic Paris, and has a collection of several thousand works of Pablo Picasso...

Pinacothèque de Paris

Address : 28, place de la Madeleine
Opening hours : Every day from 10:30am to 6pm.The ticket office closes at 5:30pm.
Phone : 01 42 68 02 01
Metro/Bus : metro Madeleine (8,12,14) - Buses Madeleine (24,42,52,84,94) - Velib: 4 Blvd Malesherbes or 4 rue Godot de Mauroy or 4 Place de la Madeleine.

In a few years only the Pinacothèque de Paris became one of the most successful museums of Paris.

Quai Branly Museum

Address : 37, quai Branly
Opening hours : From Tuesday to sunday 9:30am to 6 pm - Late opening on Thursday, friday and saturday until 9.30 p.m. Closed on Monday
Phone : +33 (0)1 56 61 70 00
Metro/Bus : Metro : Iéna (line 9), Alma-Marceau (line 9), Pont de l’Alma (RER C), Bir Hakeim (line 6). Bus : line 42 Eiffel Tower stop; lines 63, 80, 92: Bosquet-Rapp stop; line 72 Musée d’art moderne – Palais de Tokyo stop

Quai Branly Museum: The arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas in the same museum in Paris...

Rodin Museum

Address : 77, rue de Varenne
Opening hours : Every day except Mondays from 9.30 a.m to 5.45 p.m (April 1st-Sept.30th) and from 9.30 a.m to 4.45 p.m (Oct.1st-March 31th)
Phone : informations:01 44 18 61 10
Metro/Bus : Metro: Varenne (ligne 13) , RER: Invalides (ligne C) , Bus: 69, 82, 87, 92

Rodin Museum in Paris : Bronze and marble works by Auguste Rodin

Thermes de Cluny

Address : 6 Place Paul Painlevé
Opening hours : Every day except Tuesday, 9 am 15 to 17: 45 pm Ticket office closes at 17 h 15 Closed 1 January, 1 May and 25 December.
Phone : 01 53 73 78 00
Metro/Bus : Cluny - La Sorbonne

The bath complex is now partly an archeological site and partly incorporated into the Musée du Moyen Age

Your comments : Museums

The Louvre
- Annonymous
(23 Nov 2012 - 08:30)
This art gallery is sooooo awesome I love it
Museums
- Lila
(25 Apr 2012 - 22:45)
L'Orangerie and the d'Orsay closed at 5:00 this week--April 18 and 24. This should be corrected on this site.
paris
- ME ME ME
(10 Apr 2011 - 11:45)
dear people. paris is uuhhh-mazinngg:) so go theree. kaaay? thaanksbyee!