November 11, 2025: museums and monuments to discover in Paris on this holiday

Public holidays are an opportunity to take time out for yourself and for activities you don't normally have time for. For art and culture lovers, this means just one thing: an exciting trip to the museum! But how? So museums and monuments stay open on a public holiday?

Yes, we do! The proof: this Tuesday, November 11, 2025, the day of the commemoration of the signing of the armistice of the First World War, many museums and monuments are opening their doors to us. It's an opportunity for us to take in thecultural news from these art venues, or to discover the artistic treasures of our region.

The good news is that there are plenty of museums and monuments in Paris and the Ile-de-France region open on November 11, ready to welcome you on this non-working day. Since the holiday falls on a Tuesday, when many museums are closed for the week, the options for outings on November 11, 2025 are more limited than usual. Here are the museums and monuments open on November 11.

Museums and monuments open on November 11, 2025 :

• Carnavalet Museum
• Cluny Museum
• Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Museum
• Orsay Museum
• Paris Museum of Modern Art
• Bourdelle Museum
• Cernuschi Museum
• Zadkine Museum
• Cognacq-Jay Museum
• Victor Hugo's house
• Palais Galliera
• The Army Museum
• Jacquemart-André museum
• Musée des Arts et Métiers
• Picasso Museum Paris
• Musée des Arts Décoratifs
• Rodin Museum
• Balzac House
• Museum of the Liberation of Paris
• The Grévin Museum
• Arab World Institute
• Atelier des Lumières
• Musée du Luxembourg
• Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
• Cité de l'économie Citéco
• Musée Marmottan Monet
• The Shoah Memorial
• Maillol Museum
• The Philharmonie
• Le musée en Herbe
• Louis Vuitton Foundation
• Dali Paris
• Palace of Versailles
• Château de Breteuil
• Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
• Château de Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard
• Monte Cristo Castle
• Château d'Auvers-sur-Oise
• Dampierre-en-Yvelines castle
• Vincennes castle
• Eiffel Tower
• Arc de Triomphe (closed in the morning for the ceremony)
• La Conciergerie
• Sainte-Chapelle
• Pantheon
• Chapelle Expiatoire
• Sacré-Coeur Basilica
• Arènes de Lutèce
• The Saint-Cloud estate

As you can see, most art and culture venues will remain open this Tuesday, November 11. So you're spoilt for choice for your artistic outings! In fact, there may even be too many to choose from... So here's a selection ofexhibitions and venues to discover over the holiday.

By the way, do you know why November 11 is a public holiday in France?

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