The best museums in Paris
The top 3 according to 39 votes from people: Louvre Museum · Musée de l'Orangerie · Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. (Updated Mar 5, 2024.)
The Paris museums best rated by visitors and guidebooks, from the great classics to smaller, more intimate collections.
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Top 15
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1
Louvre Museum
Former royal palace turned the world's most visited museum, from the Mona Lisa to Egyptian antiquities.
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Musée de l'Orangerie
Monet's eight large Water Lilies panels in two oval rooms.
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Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas in Jean Nouvel's building with its living wall.
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Army Museum (Les Invalides)
Military collections and Napoleon's tomb beneath the Invalides dome.
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Musée d'Orsay
Monet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh in the former Orsay railway station.
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6
Rodin Museum
The Hôtel Biron and its sculpture garden, with The Thinker and The Kiss.
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Fondation Louis Vuitton
Contemporary art in Frank Gehry's glass building in the Bois de Boulogne, opened in 2014.
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Petit Palais
The City of Paris Fine Arts Museum, free, built for the 1900 World's Fair.
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9
Musée Marmottan Monet
The largest collection of Monet works, including Impression, Sunrise.
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10
Musée de Cluny – National Museum of the Middle Ages
Gallo-Roman baths and a medieval mansion housing The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.
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Musée Picasso Paris
Over 5,000 Picasso works in the Hôtel Salé in the Marais.
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12
Grand Gallery of Evolution
The parade of taxidermied animals at the Jardin des Plantes.
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13
Musée Carnavalet – History of Paris
Free museum of the history of Paris, reopened in 2021 after renovation.
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14
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
François Pinault's contemporary art collection under the dome restored by Tadao Ando, opened in 2021.
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Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Europe's largest science museum, at La Villette, with the Géode dome.
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Musée Jacquemart-André
19th-century mansion with works by Botticelli, Rembrandt and Fragonard.
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Comments (8)
Le musée Carnavalet rénové est vraiment superbe, et gratuit !
La Grande Galerie de l'Évolution avec des enfants, c'est le top.
Le musée Jacquemart-André est sous-coté, et le café dans l'ancienne salle à manger est superbe.
Louvre premier évidemment, mais en vrai quand t'y vas c'est une usine.
D'où l'intérêt d'y aller en nocturne le vendredi, c'est beaucoup plus calme.
Marmottan pour les Monet, moins de monde qu'à l'Orangerie et la collection est énorme.
Il manque le musée de la Vie romantique, petit mais charmant, et gratuit !
La Bourse de Commerce, le bâtiment vaut à lui seul le détour, la coupole est magnifique.