Best Museums in Paris
Paris is home to 12 world-class museums. From ancient collections to contemporary art, here is your complete guide with opening hours, prices, and directions.
The Louvre
The world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris.
- Admission
- €17 standard admission
- Founded
- 1793
Musée d'Orsay
Housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, home to the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world.
- Admission
- €16 standard admission
- Founded
- 1986
Centre Pompidou
France's national museum of modern and contemporary art, instantly recognisable by its inside-out architecture.
- Admission
- €15 standard admission
- Founded
- 1977
Musée Rodin
An intimate museum and sculpture garden devoted to the work of Auguste Rodin in the elegant Hôtel Biron.
- Admission
- €14 standard admission
- Founded
- 1919
Musée Picasso Paris
The world's largest public collection of Pablo Picasso's work, set in the seventeenth-century Hôtel Salé.
- Admission
- €14 standard admission
- Founded
- 1985
Musée de l'Orangerie
Home to Monet's monumental Water Lilies cycle, displayed in the oval rooms he designed himself.
- Admission
- €12.50 standard admission
- Founded
- 1927
Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Jean Nouvel's living-wall museum on the Seine devoted to the arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
- Admission
- €14 standard admission
- Founded
- 2006
Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge
France's national museum of the Middle Ages, set on a Roman bath complex in the Latin Quarter.
- Admission
- €12 standard admission
- Founded
- 1843
Free Entry
Musée Carnavalet
The museum of the city of Paris, in two adjoining Marais mansions with free admission to the permanent collection.
- Admission
- Free standard admission
- Founded
- 1880
Musée Marmottan Monet
Home to the world's largest collection of Claude Monet's paintings, in an elegant nineteenth-century mansion.
- Admission
- €14 standard admission
- Founded
- 1934
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
François Pinault's contemporary art museum inside Paris's nineteenth-century commodities exchange, redesigned by Tadao Ando.
- Admission
- €15 standard admission
- Founded
- 2021
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry's spectacular glass 'sailboat' building at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne — one of the most architecturally dramatic contemporary art museums in Europe.
- Admission
- €16 standard adult admission; combined ticket with temporary exhibitions available
- Founded
- 2014