When we think of museums in Paris, we think of the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, the Petit Palais or the free museums on the first Sunday of the month, where you have to be patient. But it is easy to forget the others: the museums that are free every day without conditions and all those that are free for people under 26 years old from one of the 28 European countries and for active teachers of the first and second degree of the National Education.
The Carnavalet Museum
The Carnavalet Museum has reopened its doors after more than four years of work. It is once again the opportunity to discover the History of the capital in this museum that has been given a new look. We reveal what awaits you in this historical museum that takes us back through time!
Petit Palais - the Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris
The Petit Palais is the magnificent showcase of the city of Paris' Fine Arts collections - from ancient art to 19th century works. The pieces in the museum's collections come from donations or acquisitions by the city of Paris. In addition to its collections, the Petit Palais is an architectural jewel, just like its big brother, created to house the works of art for the 1900 Universal Exhibition and which became a museum in 1902.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm, closed on public holidays
Museum of the Liberation of Paris - Museum of General Leclerc - Museum Jean Moulin:
The Museum of the Liberation of Paris is a very beautiful museum to discover, as a family, with a history enthusiast or just as a Parisian. Through 7000 pieces, we rediscover this page of the History of Paris in a beautiful space, bright, which offers a very nice surprise, a former underground shelter at 23 meters below ground with more than 15 large rooms that served as a command post to Colonel Rol Tanguy from August 20 to 25, 2019.
Open from 10am to 6pm from Tuesday toSunday, closed on holidays
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris :
The collection of the MAM retraces all the artistic creation of the XXth century, between fauvism, surrealism, cubism, art brut, contemporary art. Nearly 8000 works are presented chronologically, with small inserts on various major artists, icons of a movement: Dubuffet, Dada, Marcel Duchamp and many others, in a new scenography, unveiled in June 2013, which highlights the beauty of the building.
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm, closed on holidays
Musée Bourdelle:
The Bourdelle Museum is located in the former living quarters of the artist Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), bequeathed by his wife and daughter to the City of Paris to display his work and personal collections. Thus, more than 2000 works - paintings, sculptures and drawings of the artist - are unveiled within the building of Montparnasse!
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, closed on holidays
Free if no temporary exhibition
Museum of Romantic Life:
The Museum of Romantic Life is located in the Montmartre district, in the private mansion of the painter Ary Scheffer; here, the City of Paris wished to recreate the Romantic era of the 19th century, with a look at the artists of the time, including George Sand and Frederic Chopin, all in a space with an inordinate charm, which will wait for you with its tea room and its hidden garden!
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm, closed on public holidays
Musée Cognacq-Jay - the 18th century museum of the city of Paris:
The Cognacq-Jay Museum presents in the Denon mansion the private collection of the Cognacq-Jay couple including objects and works of art of the 18th century: this couple of entrepreneurs, to whom we owe the Samaritaine, art lovers, have bequeathed 1,200 objects of the period, which have charmed the couple for their beauty. We find works of Fragonard, Watteau, but also everyday objects in this surprising mini-museum!
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, closed on public holidays
House of Balzac :
In the heart of the old village of Passy, Balzac's house has become a museum dedicated to his work, La Comédie Humaine, which he wrote here. You can find the spirit of Balzac, manuscripts, first editions of his works, illustrated books of the 19th century and sculpted portraits... Please note that the Maison de Balzac is open free of charge outside the exhibition period!
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, closed on public holidays
Memorial of the Shoah:
The Shoah Memorial is open free of charge all year round: a place of memory, a place of meditation, the Shoah Memorial is a "museum of vigilance designed to learn, understand and feel" the Shoah.
Open every day from 10 am to 6 pm, except Saturday
Curie Museum:
Located in the former living quarters of Marie Curie, where she studied and taught radioactivity more than a century ago, the Curie Museum offers several educational tours and activities to discover with your family.
You can visit the scientist's office, the chemistry laboratory that has been preserved in its original state, or the amphitheater in which she gave lectures.
Open from Wednesday to Saturday, from 1 to 5 pm
Museum of Art and History of Ste. Anne's Hospital:
In the museum, you will find the traces of all the medical disciplines practiced around psychiatry and brain diseases. The different stages of research and movements that formed the basis of modern psychiatry and avant-garde brain surgery are presented.
Open Wednesday to Sunday from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm only during the exhibition period
Museum of the Legion of Honor:
The Museum of the Legion of Honor gathers official texts, documents of the period but also drafts of the insignia, photographs and films of ceremonies that review the history of the Order of Merit.
Open Wednesday to Sunday from 1 to 6 pm
Musée Cernuschi - the museum of Asian arts of the city of Paris:
The Cernuschi Museum is the museum of Asian arts of Paris, which traces the history of Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Vietnamese peoples, since the Neolithic. The collection includes works acquired by the city, including 5000 works bequeathed by Henri Cernuschi in the 19th century. The masterpiece of the museum is a large bronze Buddha, which dominates the immense high ceiling room where the permanent collections are gathered.
Gallery of the carriages of the castle of Versailles:
The Coach Gallery of the Palace of Versailles, installed in the Royal Stables in front of the Palace, preserves the most beautiful coaches of Versailles, vestiges of past royalties. One can see these carriages of great pomp and circumstance, and realize the luxury of the sedans of the wedding of Napoleon I, the carriage of the coronation of Charles X, without forgetting the funeral carriage of Louis XVIII, and discover for the first time sedan chairs, the small carriages of the children of Marie-Antoinette and an astonishing collection of fancy sleighs made during the reign of Louis XV.
Open weekends, from 9 am to 5:30 pm
Air and Space Museum:
With the Concorde, Ariane 1 and 5 rockets, its Boeing 747s and planes from the beginning of the century, the Musée du Bourget offers us a beautiful representation of all flying aircraft. Note that the museum is free on the first Sunday of the month and on other days for people under 26 years old for the permanent collections.
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, from October1 to March 30,
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, from March 31 to September 30
Safran Aeronautics and Space Museum:
The Safran Aerospace Museum houses a unique collection of more than 100 aircraft, rocket and helicopter engines, most of which have been restored by the Association of Friends of the Safran Museum (aircraft engines) or by former SEP employees (rocket engines).
Open on Wednesdays from 9am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm
Open on the 2nd and last Saturday of the month from 2pm to 5pm
Ecomusée de Savigny-le-Temple (closed for inventory) :
The Ecomuseum of Savigny-le-Temple is located in the heart of a privileged site, the farm of Coulevrain, and preserves urban plans, 15000 slides but also 5000 objects, a specialized documentary fund and a set of remarkable agricultural buildings, without forgetting secular trees of the conservatory orchard to prevent the Ile-de-France heritage from disappearing.
Robert Dubois - Corneau Museum in Brunoy (91):
The museum is named after a historian, Robert Dubois-Corneau, who was interested all his life in the history of Brunoy and the Yerres valley. He bequeathed to the city of Brunoy a large collection at his death in 1951 which highlights the history of Brunoy and the Yerres Valley since the 18th century.
Open Wednesday to Friday, from 2 to 6 pm (from May 2 to October 31)
Open from Wednesday to Friday, from 2 pm to 5 pm (from November 2nd to April 30th)
Foujita's house-workshop in Villiers-le-Bâcle (77) :
The Maison-atelier Foujita de Villeirs-le-Bâcle is the last residence of the artist. Purchased in October 1960, this house was entirely renovated by Foujita, who undertook extensive work to give it a modern and designer look. This house will be his studio, which can be visited.
Open on weekends from 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Free Museums on the 1st Sunday of the month:
Free museums and monuments in Paris this Sunday, April 2, 2023
Which free museum to visit in Paris this 1st Sunday of the month, on Sunday April 2, 2023? We find with great pleasure our little ritual of the beginning of the month: the discovery of a museum or a monument, without paying a penny! [Read more]
Free Museums for people under 26 and teachers
Free museums and monuments for young people in Paris under 26 years old
In Paris, young people under the age of 26, as well as students and teachers, have the chance to enter many museums and monuments for free! Free on presentation of an identity card or student card, museums allow all young people to open up to the world, to art and to enjoy our exceptional heritage, without discrimination, discover what you are entitled to. [Read more]
Dates and Opening Time
Starts January 1st, 2019
Prices
Free
Recommended age
For all
