Paris Museums

A visit to the Louvre or to the Musée d'Orsay is almost a requirement. If you don't get to them this trip, you'll just have to come back.

There are many museums in Paris, the number and variety of offerings is impressive. Whatever your interests are, you'll likely find a "musée" on the subject here.

If you like things mechanical, that move and creak and get things done, visit the Musée des Arts et Métiers, or the scientific demonstrations and exhibits at the Palais de la Découverte, a great one for kids.

If you are interested in the ocean and sea-faring, you will enjoy the Musée de la Marine, in the Palais de Chaillot.

For the military historians, there's the Musée de l'Armée.

Maybe you are re-tracing the events of World War II in Europe, the footsteps of a relative or even your own, then the Memorial of the Liberation of Paris will be of interest to you.

There are many Paris Museums dedicated to individual artists including Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Eugene Delacroix and the irrepressible Salvador Dali.

There are museums of Natural History, the Middle Ages and the History of Paris.

The list of the museums of Paris below, though not exhaustive, should give you enough material to find a few which speak to your interests. Each listing will give you detailed information including location, hours, admission fees and a link to their website, if they have one.

Here is also a list of the Free Museums in Paris.

The museums are listed here in French, just the way you'll be looking for them in Paris.

Paris Museums by Arrondissement

1er Arrondissement

• Musée de l'Orangerie

• Musée des Arts Decoratifs
  

• Musée du Louvre

• Musée Carnavalet

• Musée Cognacq-Jay

• Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme

• Musée de l'Histoire de France-Archive Nationales

• Musée des Arts et Métiers

• Musée Picasso

• Centre Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne

• Crypt Archeologique Notre Dame de Paris

• Maison de Victor Hugo

• Memorial de la Shoah

• Institute du Monde Arabe

• Musée de Sculpture en Plein Air

• Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle

• Musée National du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny

• Musée de la Monnaie

• Musée du Luxembourg

• Musée National Eugene Delacroix

• Musée Zadkine

• Les Egouts de Paris

• Musée de la Legion d'Honneur

• Musée de l'Armée

• Musée d'Orsay

• Musée du Quai Branly

• Musée Rodin

• Musée Cernuschi

• Palais de la Découverte

• Petit Palais: Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris

• Musée Grevin

• Musée Gustave Moreau

• Musée de la Vie Romantique

• Musée de Crystal Baccarat

• Mémorial de la Libération de Paris

• Musée Bourdelle

• Musée de la Poste

• Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

• Maison de Balzac

• Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

• Musée de la Marine

• Musée de l'Homme

• Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet

• Musée Marmottan-Monet

• Espace Dali - Montmartre

• Musée de Montmartre

• Cité de la Musique

• Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie