Museums in Paris

The Louvre

Art Museum

The Louvre has the distinction of being perhaps the most famous museum in the world. The museum is a landmark monument and contains the world's biggest collection of art, with perhaps the most famous painting of all-time hanging in its halls: da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The 782,000-square-foot museum is the most visited in the world with more than 10 million guests each year. Fun fact: The building that houses the Louvre today was built in the late 12th century and remains of the Louvre Castle fortress can still be seen in the museum's basement today.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Louvre.

• Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
• The Winged Victory of Samothrace
• The Venus de Milo

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €17 per person
• 📍 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France

Musée d'Orsay

Art Museum

The Musée d'Orsay sits on Paris' Seine River in a former railway station. The museum contains the world's biggest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist art, with works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cézanne, and others. The Musée d'Orsay is one of Europe's biggest art museums and attracts more than three million visitors each year.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée d'Orsay.

• Paul Cézanne's The Hanged Man's House
• Vincent van Gogh's Self-Portrait
• Claude Monet's Blue Water Lilies

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €14 per person
• 📍 1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

Quai Branly Museum

Natural History Museum

The Quai Branly Museum, or the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, in Paris is home to the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. There are more than one million objects in the museum's collection, ranging from photos to documents to ethnographic items. More than one million guests visit the museum annually.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Quai Branly Museum.

• The River
• The Green Wall
• A Moai ancestor's head from Easter Island

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €10 per person
• 📍 37 Quai Branly, 75007 Paris, France

Petit Palais

Art Museum

The Petit Palais is an art museum in Paris. The museum's exhibits are divided into various sections, from medieval and Renaissance paintings to a collection of 18th century furniture to the City of Paris collection of paintings. Artists on display in the museum include Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin, Monet, Cézanne, Modigliani, and Rodin.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Petit Palais.

• Jacob Jordaens' Diana Resting
• Antoine Bourdelle's La naissance d'Aphrodite
• Louis Convers' Quatre saisons

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €40 per person
• 📍 Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris, France

Grand Palais

Encyclopedic Museum

The Grand Palais, or Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, is a historic site and museum in Paris at the Champs-Élysées. The Grand Palais has a long history in Paris, having served as a military hospital during World War I. It was also used by the Nazis during World War II. Fun fact: There is a police station in the basement; officers there help guard the exhibits on display.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Grand Palais.

• Exhibition: Greco
• Exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €1 per person
• 📍 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris, France

Carnavalet Museum

History Museum

The Carnavalet Museum, or Musée Carnavalet, chronicles the history of Paris. The museum is housed in the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau. The Carnavalet Museum has hundreds of thousands of items in its collection, ranging from paintings to drawings to engravings to photos to sculptures to furniture, and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Carnavalet Museum.

• The Louis XIV sculpture
• A scale model of Île de la Cité
• Thévenin's La Fête de la Fédération

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €6 per person
• 📍 16 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Paris, France

Centre Pompidou

Encyclopedic Museum

The Centre Pompidou is a building complex in Paris that houses a variety of important locations: the Public Information Library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a center for music research. The Centre Pompidou was named after Georges Pompidou, a French president who ordered construction of the center.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Centre Pompidou.

• Alexander Calder's Horizontal
• Bibliothèque publique d'information
• Musée National d'Art Moderne

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €14 per person
• 📍 Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France

Musée Nissim de Camondo

Art Museum

The Musée Nissim de Camondo is a house museum of French decorative arts in Paris. The house was built in the early 1900s and has been preserved today in its original condition. The home includes Savonnerie carpets dating back to the 1600s, needlepoint chairs, tapestries from Beauvais and Aubusson, and a variety of paintings.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée Nissim de Camondo.

• Grand Bureau
• Library
• Les Gentilshommes du Duc d'Orléans

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €9 per person
• 📍 63 Rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris, France

The Army Museum

War Museum

The Army Museum in Paris contains collections of French military weapons and uniforms. Exhibits highlight the history of the French military. Visitors can see the museum's highlight: the gilded tomb of Napoleon. The collection includes tanks, guns, weapons, armor, and a variety of other military memorabilia.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Army Museum.

• Napoleon's gilded tomb
• A 1780s Gribeauval cannon
• A 19th century field gun

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

Musée de Montmartre

Archaeological Museum

The Musée de Montmartre is an art museum in Paris housed in the buildings that artists Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Suzanne Valadon once called home. A major attraction at the Musée de Montmartre is the Renoir Gardens, which have been recreated to match Renoir's paintings. Visitors to the gardens can see the Middle Age-era vineyards on-site.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée de Montmartre.

• Steinlen's Le Cabaret du Chat Noir
• Utrillo's La Place Pigalle
• The Renoir Gardens

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 12 Rue Cortot, 75018 Paris, France

Guimet Museum

Archaeological Museum

The Guimet Museum, or Musée national des arts asiatiques Guimet, is an art museum in Paris with one of the largest collections of Asian art in Europe. The museum's collection contains a variety of art and artifacts from Asian history and culture, with some items dating back to the first century.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Guimet Museum.

• An 11th-century sitting celadon lion
• A 6th-century Bodhisattva terracotta
• The Bodhisattva Maitreya

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 6 Place d'Iéna, 75116 Paris, France

Musée Bourdelle

Art Museum

Musée Bourdelle is a free art museum in Paris. The museum is housed in the studio of Antonie Bourdelle, a sculptor in Paris. The museum's collection has more than 500 different pieces, including marble, plaster, and bronze statues, paintings, and frescos. It is also home to Bourdelle's personal collection.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée Bourdelle.

• The Hall of Plasters
• Auguste Rodin sculptures
• The Stranger Tales of Niels Hansen Jacobsen, A Danish in Paris

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 18 Rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris, France

Museum of Fairground Arts

Art Museum

The Museum of Fairground Arts, or the Musée des Arts Forains, is a private museum of objects related to the funfair in Paris. The museum collection includes amusement rides, fair stalls, and restored attractions. Think carousels, merry go rounds, German swings, old bicycles, and Japanese billiards.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Fairground Arts.

• The Venetian Lounges
• The Theatre of Marvels

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €16 per person
• 📍 53 Avenue des Terroirs of France, 75012 Paris, France

Cognacq-Jay Museum

Art Museum

The Cognacq-Jay Museum, or Musée Cognacq-Jay, is a free museum in Paris that houses the private collection of Théodore-Ernest Cognacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay. The collection includes about 1200 different items, ranging from jewels to ceramics to paintings. The collection's best known painters include Rembrandt, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Cognacq-Jay Museum.

• Rembrandt
• Cézanne
• Degas

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 8 Rue Elzevir, 75003 Paris, France

Gustave Moreau National Museum

Art Museum

The Gustave Moreau National Museum, or Musée national Gustave Moreau, is an art museum in Paris featuring the works of Gustave Moreau. The museum is housed where Moreau once lived and worked. The museum's collection includes drawings, sculptures, watercolors, and paintings by Moreau. All together, the collection includes upwards of 15,000 works.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Gustave Moreau National Museum.

• Jupiter and Semele
• The Return of the Argonauts
• Moreau's apartment

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €7 per person
• 📍 14 Rue de la Rochefoucauld, 75009 Paris, France

Museum of Perfume

Specialty Museum

The Museum of Perfume, or Musée du Parfum, is a private museum of perfume in Paris. The museum was created by Fragonard Parfumeur during the 1980s. The museum includes period furnishings and exhibits on perfumes. Guests can see antique bottles, toiletries, and stills for steam distillation. The museum, and its guided tours, are free.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Perfume.

• The Perfume Organ
• History of Perfume

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 3-5 Square de l'Opéra-Louis Jouvet, 75009 Paris, France

Jeu de Paume

Art Museum

Jeu de Paume is an arts center for modern and postmodern photography and media in Paris. The building has a long history in Paris, from being used as a Nazi sorting house during World War II to opening as an art museum that housed a variety of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings that are now part of the Musee d'Orsay.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Jeu de Paume.

• Peter Hujar's Speed of Life
• Zineb Sedira's For A Moment
• Daisuke Kosugi's A False Gravity

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €10 per person
• 📍 1 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France

The Shoah Memorial

Archaeological Museum

The Shoah Memorial, or the Mémorial de la Shoah, is Paris' Holocaust museum. The museum opened in 2005 on International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The museum includes a forecourt, a memorial crypt, a Wall of Names, and The Wall of the Righteous.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Shoah Memorial.

• Wall of Names
• Memorial crypt
• The Wall of the Righteous

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 17 Rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, 75004 Paris, France

Museum of the Art and History of Judaism

Religious Museum

The Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, or Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, is sometimes known as mahJ. The Paris museum is the biggest Jewish museum focused on art and history in the entire country. Housed in the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, mahJ contains art by Modigliani, Chagall, and has objects in the collection ranging from medieval gravestone to a 19th-century Sukkah.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of the Art and History of Judaism.

• The works of Amedeo Modigliani
• The works of Marc Chagall
• Medieval gravestones

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €10 per person
• 📍 Hôtel de Saint-Aignan, 71 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris, France

Arab World Institute

Cultural Center

The Arab World Institute in Paris is an organization of 18 Arab countries along with France with the mission of researching and spreading information about the Arab world. The organization includes a museum, library, restaurant, offices, conference rooms, and auditorium.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Arab World Institute.

• Osiris: The Submerged Mysteries of Egypt
• Voices of animals: the fables of Kalila and Dimna
• Nomadic Sculpture by Rodolphe Hammadi

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €8 per person
• 📍 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris, France

Architecture and Heritage City

History Museum

Architecture and Heritage City, or Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, is an architecture and sculpture museum in Paris. The museum's permanent collection, often called Musée des Monuments Français, or the Museum of French Monuments, dates back to the late 19th century, though its collections reach back to the early 12th century.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Architecture and Heritage City.

• Galerie des Moulages: casts of French architecture from the 12-18th centuries
• Galerie des Peintures Murales et des Vitraux: replicas of murals and stained glass from French churches
• Galerie Moderne et Contemporaine: models of architecture from 1850 until today

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €8 per person
• 📍 1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75116 Paris, France

Mundolingua

Specialty Museum

Mundolingua is a museum in Paris dedicated to the study of language. The museum's collection focuses on the history of and artifacts relating to language and linguistics. The museum houses a variety of exhibits, including a comparison of human communication and animal communication. Children guests to the museum can participate in interactive activities during their visit.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Mundolingua.

• Languages: Past and Present
• Playing with language
• New technologies and linguistics

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €7 per person
• 📍 10 Rue Servandoni, 75006 Paris, France

Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération

War Museum

The Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération is a French military museum in Paris. The museum features the Ordre de la Libération, which was France's second national order after the Légion d'honneur. The museum has three galleries that showcase the history of the Free French Forces. The museum has more than four thousand items in its collection, ranging from uniforms to weapons to flags.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération.

• Charles de Gaulle's manuscripts
• The Weapons Exhibit
• The first naval flags of Free France

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 Place Vauban, 75007 Paris, France

Musée Maillol

Art Museum

Musée Maillol is an art museum in Paris dedicated to the work of sculptor Aristide Maillol. The museum, which was opened by Maillol's model Diana Vierny, also includes items from Vierny's personal collection, which includes work by Henri Rousseau, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Raoul Dufy, and Suzanne Valadon.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée Maillol.

• The Work of Artiside Maillol
• Henri Matisse
• Pablo Picasso

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €14 per person
• 📍 59-61 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

The Yves Saint Laurent Museum

Specialty Museum

The Yves Saint Laurent Museum, or Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, is a museum in Paris dedicated to chronicling the life of Yves Saint Laurent. The museum's exhibits are focused on the life and fashions of the famous designer.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Yves Saint Laurent Museum.

• Yves Saint Laurent: Behind the scenes of haute couture in Lyon
• New Displays for the Collection

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €7 per person
• 📍 5 Avenue Marceau, 75116 Paris, France

Archaeological Crypt of the Paris Notre-Dame

Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Crypt of the Paris Notre-Dame displays the items and artifacts that were discovered under Notre Dame when the famed cathedral underwent renovations. Items on display date back to ancient times with many different eras, including the Middle Ages, represented.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Archaeological Crypt of the Paris Notre-Dame.

• Remains of a Lutèce house
• The Parisii Recreatement
• Gallo-Roman artifacts

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €8 per person
• 📍 7 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France

Georges Clemenceau Museum

Historic Site

The Georges Clemenceau Museum, or Musée Clemenceau, is a historic house museum in Paris dedicated to the life of Georges Clemenceau. The French statesman and writer's house and gardens have been preserved to this day. The apartment looks as though it did on the day Clemenceau passed. Objects on display include his famous coat and gaiters, photos, books, manuscripts, newspapers, and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Georges Clemenceau Museum.

• Clemenceau's famous coat and gaiters
• Clemenceau's manuscripts
• The Garden

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €6 per person
• 📍 8 Rue Benjamin Franklin, 75116 Paris, France

Museum of Contemporary History

Library

The Museum of Contemporary History, also known as the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, is a library in Paris with a museum and archive that focuses on 20th-century history. The archives and library are located at the Paris Nanterre University campus, while the museum is housed within Hôtel National des Invalides. Today, the locations own a combined 1.5 million objects dating back to 1870. from Today the museum contains about 1,500,000 items and documents from 1870 to the present day.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Contemporary History.

• 40,000 journals
• 800,000 monographies

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 6 Alley of the University, 92000 Nanterre, France

Homme Museum

Natural History Museum

The Homme Museum, or Musée de l'Homme, is an anthropology museum in Paris. The Homme Museum operates as a research center and is part of the Natural History Museum in Paris. The Homme Museum's mission is to "provide visitors with an understanding of human evolution and societies by combining biological, social and cultural approaches. It deals with the earliest days of humanity as well as the modern era, questioning the future of humankind."

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Homme Museum.

• A crystal skull
• The skull of René Descartes
• he skull of Suleiman al-Halabi

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ € per person
• 📍 17 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75116 Paris, France

Musée de la Cinémathèque

Specialty Museum

The Musée de la Cinémathèque in Paris is home to one of the world's biggest collections of film documents and memorabilia. Guests to the museum can enjoy daily screenings of movies. At one point, the museum's founder had gathered a massive film collection, but the German authorities ordered it destroyed upon their occupation of France. The collection owners smuggled it out of the country until the war ended.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Musée de la Cinémathèque.

• 40,000 old and modern films
• 23,000 movie posters

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €5 per person
• 📍 51 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, France

Museum of Counterfeiting

Specialty Museum

The Museum of Counterfeiting, or Musée de la Contrefaçon, dates back to its founding in the 1950s by the Union des Fabricants, a group of manufactures. The museum's collection displays close to 400 objects, showing the counterfeit good alongside the original it aimed to copy. See fake vs. authentic pens, clothes, tools, toys, luxury items, toiletries, and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Counterfeiting.

• Side-by-side comparisons of real vs. fake goods

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €6 per person
• 📍 16 Rue de la Faisanderie, 75116 Paris, France

Museum of the Paris Bar

Specialty Museum

The Museum of the Paris Bar, or Musée du Barreau de Paris, is a museum in Paris that showcases the history of the Paris Bar and the city's lawyers. The museum is housed in the basement of the historic Hôtel de la Porte. The museum's collection includes items of legal history dating back to the 1600s, including a number of exhibits and documents relating to various high-profile trials. The museum is available to be visited by appointment; guided tours, including tours in English, are also available upon advance request.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of the Paris Bar.

• Trials of Louis XVI
• Trials of Marie Antoinette
• Trials of Emile Zola

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 25 Rue du Jour, 75001 Paris, France

Pierre Cardin Museum

Art Museum

The Pierre Cardin Museum, or Musée Pierre Cardin, is a museum in Paris dedicated to the life and works of great designer Pierre Cardin. The museum's collection includes several hundred Haute Couture designs dating back to his first collection in the 1950s.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Pierre Cardin Museum.

• The Bulle Dress
• More than 200 examples of Cardin's Haute Couture

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €25 per person
• 📍 5 Rue Saint-Merri, 75004 Paris, France

Catacombs

Historic Site

The Paris Catacombs, or Catacombes de Paris, are underground ossuaries in Paris that hold the remains of more than six million people. The tunnel network was built in an effort to consolidate the city's cemeteries. Bodies were dug from graves during the 1700s and transported to the catacombs. Today, guests can walk through the catacombs alongside the bones of the millions of buried.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Catacombs.

• Bones from six million dead

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €14 per person
• 📍 1 Avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 Paris, France

The Bible and Holy Land Museum

Religious Museum

The Bible and Holy Land Museum, or the Musée Bible et Terre Sainte, is a small museum run by the Institut Catholique de Paris. The museum, which opened its doors during the late 1960s, has more than 500 objects on display dating back to Palestine life FROM 600 CE to 5000 BCE. Note: Museum admission is free, though the museum is only open on Saturdays.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Bible and Holy Land Museum.

• A stone mask dating back to 7000 BC!
• Stone tablets engraved with cuneiform
• A fragment of the Dead Sea Scroll

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 Catholic Institute of Paris, 21 rue d'Assas, 75006 Pari

Museum of Relief Plans

War Museum

The Museum of Relief Plans, or the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, is a war museum in Paris consisting of military models housed in the Hotel des Invalides. The models date back to 1668; in 1700, Louis XIV put the collection in the Louvre. When the Louvre updated itself to include paintings in 1774, the military models were almost destroyed, but eventually found a new home at the Hôtel des Invalides. The museum today has more than 110 relief plans created between 1668 and 1870.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Relief Plans.

• Napoleon's models
• Exhibits on the use of relief plans

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €12 per person
• 📍 129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France

Wine Museum

Specialty Museum

The Wine Museum in Paris, or Musée du Vin, is a museum of wine, wine memorabilia, and wine artifacts that is housed in 15th-century vaulted wine cellars. The museum offers free wine tasting to guests. There is also a shop and restaurant, "Les Echansons," on site for visitors to enjoy.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Wine Museum.

• Free wine tasting
• Les Echansons

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 5 Square Charles Dickens, 75016 Paris, France

The Herbe Museum

Children's Museum

The Herbe Museum, Musée en Herbe, is a children's art museum in Paris. The museum includes art exhibits and interactive, hands-on things for children to do based on the works of famed artists like Niki de Saint Phalle, Marc Chagall, and Pablo Picasso.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Herbe Museum.

• Interactive art exhibits

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €10 per person
• 📍 23 Rue de l'Arbre Sec, 75001 Paris, France

Pasteur Museum

Science Museum

The Pasteur Museum, or Musée Pasteur, is a Paris museum showcasing the life and work of scientist Louis Pasteur. The museum first opened in the 1930s and is located in the apartment where Pasteur lived for the last several years of his life. The museum also features more than 1,000 different scientific instruments on display.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Pasteur Museum.

• Pasteur's apartment
• The science exhibit room
• The Byzantine-style crypt where Pasteur is buried

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €14 per person
• 📍 25 Rue du Dr Roux, 75015 Paris, France

Museum of the Legion of Honor

War Museum

The Museum of the Legion of Honor, or Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie, is a French national museum of orders of merit and orders of chivalry inside the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur. The museum is home to a collection that includes a history of the country's honors, medals, and chivalric orders. The collection dates back to King Louis XI's reign.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of the Legion of Honor.

• Foreign Orders
• Napoleonic Souvenirs
• The Portrait Collection

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 2 Rue de la Legion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris, France

Fragonard Perfumery

Specialty Museum

Fragonard Perfumery, or Théâtre-Musée des Capucines, is a private museum in Paris showcasing perfume. The museum was established by the Fragonard perfume company and is housed inside an old theater. The museum highlights old distilling instruments, alembics, potpourris, roasters, and raw materials.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Fragonard Perfumery.

• Perfume bottles dating back 3000 years
• 1800s perfume distilling equipment

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 Le théâtre musée des Capucines, 39 Boulevard des Capucines, 75002 Paris, France

National Museum of History of Immigration

History Museum

The National Museum of History of Immigration, or the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, is a museum in Paris dedicated to immigration. The museum is housed inside the Palais de la Porte Dorée. The collection focuses on the history and culture of immigration in France dating back to the early 1800s. Collection items include photographs, documents, visual aids, posters, cartoons, press, books, and artifacts.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at National Museum of History of Immigration.

• Benchmarks: Immigrant Stories In Multimedia Form
• Eugène Atget's photography

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €6 per person
• 📍 293 Daumesnil Avenue, 75012 Paris, France

Gaîté Lyrique

Specialty Museum

Gaîté Lyrique is a digital arts and modern music museum and center located in the former Théâtre de la Gaîté. The center has several performing spaces, as well as a resource centre and library. The library's collections include more than 1500 books, 200 periodicals, 150 art catalogs, and other items.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Gaîté Lyrique.

• Gaîté Lyrique Library

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 3bis Rue Papin, 75003 Paris, France

Halle Saint-Pierre

Archaeological Museum

Halle Saint-Pierre, or Musée d'Art Naïf – Max Fourny, is a museum in Paris focused on naive art. The museum, created by Max Fourny, hosts temporary exhibits on naive art, folk art, and outsider art. There is also a small collection of paintings, paper, marquetry, textiles, and glass.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Halle Saint-Pierre.

• Temporary exhibits
• Glass work

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 2 Rue Ronsard, 75018 Paris, France

Museum of Art and History Saint-Denis

History Museum

The Museum of Art and History Saint-Denis, or Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis, is a museum in Paris located in an ancient cloister of the order of the Carmelites. The museum's collection is focused on the history of the Carmelites, the Paris Commune, and the poet, Paul Éluard, as well as ancient finds from around the Basilique Saint-Denis.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Museum of Art and History Saint-Denis.

• Letter of Oljeitu to Philippe le Bel, 1305
• Silver coin of John II Komnenos
• Nestorian tombstone from Issyk Kul, 1312

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €5 per person
• 📍 22 bis Rue Gabriel Peri, 93200 Saint-Denis, France

Mémorial du Mont-Valérien

Historic Site

The Mémorial du Mont-Valérien, or Fighting France Memorial, is France's most important memorial to French fighters of World War II. It is the site of the burial of 15 French soldiers. There is also a memorial path from the crypt to the clearing where the Fort Mont-Valérien executions took place.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Mémorial du Mont-Valérien.

• The Memorial Path
• The 15 Buried Fighters

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 Avenue du professeur Léon Bernard, 92150 Suresnes, France

Polish Library in Paris

Cultural Center

The Polish Library in Paris, or Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris, is a Polish cultural center with a heavy focus of the Polish elite's Great Emigration to Paris during the 1800s. The library contains more than 220,000 volumes of periodicals, books, and journals, in addition to maps, photos and images dating back to the 16th century.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Polish Library in Paris.

• The Towarzystwo Historyczno-Literackie w Paryżu Collection
• Images dating back to the 1500s

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 6 Quai d'Orleans, 75004 Paris, France

The Museum and Library of the Trade Guilds

Specialty Museum

The Museum and Library of the Trade Guilds, or the Musée – Librairie du Compagnonnage, is a museum in Paris that showcases the history of French trade guilds. The museum's collection dates back to the medieval days. The collection includes objects, tools, documents, and artifacts from trade professions in areas like plumbing, iron, masonry, carpentry, cooking, and more.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at The Museum and Library of the Trade Guilds.

• Medieval Trade Guild Artifacts

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €0 per person
• 📍 10 Rue Mabillon, 75006 Paris, France

Air and Space Museum

Archaeological Museum

The Air and Space Museum, or Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, in Paris is a museum dedicated to the history of the sky, aircraft, and space. The museum is one of the world's oldest aviation museums with approximately 20,000 different items in its collection dating back to the 1500s. Items include gliders, gondolas, rockets, a Concorde prototype, and various missiles.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Air and Space Museum.

• The Concorde prototype
• Soviet rockets
• The only known piece of the L'Oiseau Blanc

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €9 per person
• 📍 Paris-Le Bourget Airport, 93352 Le Bourget, France

Palais Galliera

Specialty Museum

Palais Galliera, or Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, is a fashion and fashion history museum in Paris. While the museum does not display permanent collections, it frequently showcases temporary exhibits on fashion. Though the museum doesn't display its collections, the museum owns incredible pieces of history like clothes worn by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVII, and Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast at Tiffany's dress.

Highlights

Here are some of the "must see" items at Palais Galliera.

• Fashion Photography, From Studio to Exotic Countries (1900-1969)

• 🌐 Website
• 🎟️ €10 per person
• 📍 10 Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, 75016 Paris, France