The Paris Museum Pass

Paris Museum Pass provides ‘no-wait’ access, to the permanent collections of over 60 Paris museums and monuments.

Valid for (price in Euros if you buy after you get to Paris):

2 consecutive days:30 Euros

4 consecutive days:45 Euros

6 consecutive days: 60 Euros

It is available under the pyramid in the Louvre lobby, in the other museums and monuments accepting the pass, in all main Metro stations and at the Paris Tourist Information Office.

The Paris Museum Pass is not valid for temporary exhibitions and don’t forget that most museums are already free for kids under 18 years of age.

Centre Pompidou-Musée National d’Art Moderne

rue Beaubourg, 4e

Metro: Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville

RER: Châtelet/Les Halles

Information: 01.44.78.12.33

Minitel: 3615 Beaubourg or 3615 Bpi

Building Hours: W-Su: 11:00am – 10:00pm, closed May 1st

Museum and Exhibits: W-Su: 11:00am to 9:00pm

Library: M-F 12:00pm to 10:00pm, Sa/Su 11:00am to 10:00pm

Admissions vary depending on what you want to see.

Affectionately known to the French as ‘Beau-Beau’, this building, with its exposed conduit, plumbing and large windows holds the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, which is not to be confused with the collection at the Palais du Tokyo. The Centre Pompidou also displays rotating exhibits, has a reading library, a great bookstore, a cinema and performing arts space and is known as well for it’s collection of street performers who entertain the tourists of Paris outside on its sloping plaza.

Institut du Monde Arabe

1 rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 5e

Information: 01.40.51.38.38

One of the most beautiful aspects of this museum are its solar shutters in the windows. They have traveling exhibitions of art, and images from the Arab world as well as an extensive permanent collection of Islamic written and art works in both the galleries and in the library.

Musée d’Art Moderne

Palais de Tokyo, 11 avenue du President Wilson, 16e

Information: 01.53.67.40.00

Musée National Eugène Delacroix

6, rue de Furstenberg 75006 Paris, 6e

Metro: St-Germain-des-Pres

Information: 01.44.41.86.50

Hours: W – M: from 9:30am – 5pm. Closed Tuesdays. Free first Sunday of the month.

This is the last studio and home of the artist Eugène Delacroix. He lived here from 1798 until 1863.

Musée Atelier du Sculpteur Henri Bouchard

25 rue de l’Yvette 75016 Paris, 16e

Metro: Jasmin

Information: 01.46.47.63.46

Hours: W and Sa: from 2pm – 7pm. Closed from 16-31 of the months of March, June, September and December.

Museum created out of the studio of artist/sculptor Henri Bouchard. The web site includes a list of the artist’s works that are in the public domain.

Musée du Louvre

Cour Napoléon, 1e

Information: 01.40.20.53.17

Minitel: 36 15 Louvre

General Admission: 46FF / 7,01 Euros until 3pm, 30FF / 4,57 Euros after 3pm and on Sundays all day.

Free on the first Sunday of each month.

Temporary exhibitions in the hall Napoléon: 25FF / 3,81 Euros Free for persons under 18 years, unemployed.

Tickets valid all day, re-entry allowed.

The Louvre is steeped in history — 800 years of it, and that is only the building that holds the collections of one of the first musems in Europe. Formerly a medieval fortress and the palace of kings, the museum holds seven collections dating from the antiquities to the mid-1800s.

Musée National du Moyen-Age (Musée du Cluny)

6 Place Paul Painlevé, 5e

Metro: Cluny-La Sorbonne

RER: Line C: St-Michel / Line B: Cluny-La Sorbonne

Information: 01.53.73.78.16

Hours: W-M: 9.15am – 5.45pm. The museum is closed November 1st , Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

General Admission: 30FF, 18 to 25 years: 20FF, Reduced rate Sundays for all visitors: 20FF, Youths Under 18 / unemployed: Free

All groups (tours, workshops etc.) enter with advanced reservations only. Tel 01.53.73.78.30 from 10am to noon and 2pm to 4pm Mondays to Fridays

The Musée National du Moyen-Age sits on two historic sites: the Gallo-Roman baths from the beginning of the last millennium and the 15th century residence of the Abbots of Cluny. The museum holds many of the original sculptures from the façade of Notre Dame Cathedral as well as illuminated manuscripts, reliqueries, medieval objets d’art and the famous tapestries which include ‘The Lady and the Unicorn’.

Musée d’Orsay

1 rue de Bellechasse, 7e

Metro: Solférino

RER: Line C: Musée d’Orsay station

Information: 01.40.49.48.14

Winter Hours: October 1 – June 20 Tu-Sa: 10am – 6pm, Th: until 9.45pm and Su: 9am – 6pm

Summer Hours: June 21 – September 30: Opens at 9am

The museum is OPEN on Easter Sunday. The museum is CLOSED on May 1.

Groups with or without a guide enter by reservation only. Make reservations in writing or by calling 33-01.53.63.04.50.

Groups of 30 people max: Tu-Sa: 9:30am to 4pm, Th: 9.30am-8pm

The rue de Lille was once the central lane of the garden belonging to Henri IV’s famous queen, Marguerite de Valois. You may know of her from the movie ‘Queen Margot’. Upon her death in 1615, the property was sold off by lots to pay off her debts. The train station was not built on the site until 1900 and in 1979 the plans were drawn for the Musée d’Orsay which now houses the Impressionist collection from the old Jeu du Paume and some of the work from the later 1800s that had been in the Louvre.

Musée Picasso

5 rue de Thorigny, 3e

Information: 01.42.71.25.21

The ultimate collection on Picasso and his contemporaries. There are both temporary and permanent galleries. The permanent collection shows the visual path that Picasso led throughout his life to create his work.

Musée Auguste Rodin

77 rue de Varenne, 7e

Metro: Varenne

Information: 01.44.18.61.10

Summer Hours: April-September: Tu-Su: 9:30am – 5:45pm. Grounds close at 6.45 p.m. Ticket office closes 5.15 p.m.

Winter Hours: October-March: Tu-Su: 9:30am – 4:45pm. Grounds close at 5 p.m. Ticket office closes 4.15 p.m

General Admission: 28FF, Reduced rate: 18 FF, Gardens only: 5 FF

The Musée Rodin is housed in the 18th century Biron Residence. The residence was bought by the City of Paris in 1911 and was made into the Musée Rodin by public decree in 1919, two years after the artist’s death. The house holds many of Rodin’s beautiful sculptures as well as a few by his students and outside, the gardens provide a soothing place to walk and enjoy the artist’s domain.

La Pinacothèque de Paris

30 bis rue de Paradis, 10e

Metro: Bonne-Nouvelle (lignes 8 et 9), Gare de l’Est (lignes 7, 4 et 5) et Poissonnière (ligne 7)

Information: 01.53.34.06.70

Hours: Tu, W, Th, Sa, Su: 10am – 7pm. M and F: 10am – 10:30pm

Winter Hours: October-March: Tu-Su: 9:30am – 4:45pm. Grounds close at 5 p.m. Ticket office closes 4.15 p.m

General Admission: 12 EU , Students and Seniors: 8 EU

The first private museum in Paris is opening with an exhibition of a private collection of works by Picasso, which are owned by his wife Jaqueline and never before seen by the public.