Nuit des Musées 2025 at the Château de Fontainebleau (77): a free evening in the monument

Every year, the Nuit des Musées invites us to (re)discover our beautiful Parisian heritage. For this 21st edition, we invite you to join us on Saturday, May 17, 2025, for night-time visits, often enhanced byoriginal events. On this occasion, we invite you to unravel the mysteries ofone of Île-de-France's most beautiful châteaux: the Château de Fontainebleau.

Château de Fontainebleau, the second home of the Kings of France
The Château de Fontainebleau invites you to discover its spaces and its history. Come and admire this superb château, with its medieval and classical styles, and its ornate gardens covering more than 130 hectares. [Read more]

With over 1,500 rooms set in 130 hectares of parkland and gardens, the Château de Fontainebleau is the only royal and imperial château to have been continuously inhabited for seven centuries. To visit the Château de Fontainebleau is to benefit from an exceptional presentation of French history, art and architecture. Here, you'll pass through corridors that have seen the greatest princes and dukes come and go, and remain in the state in which Napoleon III and Eugenie left them!

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The château's collections include some 30,000 works of art from the ^16th to the ^19th century, many of which can be admired in the château's historic apartments, the Napoleon^I museum, the painting gallery, the furniture gallery and the Chinese museum.

The program for Nuit des Musées 2025 at the Château de Fontainebleau :

Le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.

Here's a plan not to be missed during this new Nuit des Musées!