# The best museums in Paris

The Paris museums best rated by visitors and guidebooks, from the great classics to smaller, more intimate collections.

- 39 votes · 16 items
- Mar 5, 2024 · Loïc L.
- https://even.best/en/l/9/the-best-museums-in-paris

## Top 15

1. **Louvre Museum** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Former royal palace turned the world's most visited museum, from the Mona Lisa to Egyptian antiquities. <https://www.louvre.fr/>
2. **Musée de l'Orangerie** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Monet's eight large Water Lilies panels in two oval rooms. <https://www.musee-orangerie.fr/>
3. **Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas in Jean Nouvel's building with its living wall. <https://www.quaibranly.fr/>
4. **Army Museum (Les Invalides)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Military collections and Napoleon's tomb beneath the Invalides dome. <https://www.musee-armee.fr/>
5. **Musée d'Orsay** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh in the former Orsay railway station. <https://www.musee-orsay.fr/>
6. **Rodin Museum** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Hôtel Biron and its sculpture garden, with The Thinker and The Kiss. <https://www.musee-rodin.fr/>
7. **Fondation Louis Vuitton** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Contemporary art in Frank Gehry's glass building in the Bois de Boulogne, opened in 2014. <https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/>
8. **Petit Palais** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The City of Paris Fine Arts Museum, free, built for the 1900 World's Fair. <https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/>
9. **Musée Marmottan Monet** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The largest collection of Monet works, including Impression, Sunrise. <https://www.marmottan.fr/>
10. **Musée de Cluny – National Museum of the Middle Ages** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gallo-Roman baths and a medieval mansion housing The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. <https://www.musee-moyenage.fr/>
11. **Musée Picasso Paris** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Over 5,000 Picasso works in the Hôtel Salé in the Marais. <https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/>
12. **Grand Gallery of Evolution** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The parade of taxidermied animals at the Jardin des Plantes. <https://www.mnhn.fr/>
13. **Musée Carnavalet – History of Paris** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Free museum of the history of Paris, reopened in 2021 after renovation. <https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/>
14. **Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — François Pinault's contemporary art collection under the dome restored by Tadao Ando, opened in 2021. <https://www.pinaultcollection.com/>
15. **Cité des sciences et de l'industrie** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Europe's largest science museum, at La Villette, with the Géode dome. <https://www.cite-sciences.fr/>
16. **Musée Jacquemart-André** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 19th-century mansion with works by Botticelli, Rembrandt and Fragonard. <https://www.musee-jacquemart-andre.com/>

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