Paris - Museums

Louvre: Link
The world's largest art museum, featuring permanent displays of the most famous world artists (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa). Don't skip an impressive glass pyramid.

Pompidou Centre (NOTE: they have been temporarily relocated because of renovation work: until 2030): Link
Designed in the style of high-tech architecture. It houses the largest museum for modern art in Europe, a vast public library, and a music center. Don't miss the nearby Stravinsky Fountain.

Hôtel National Des Invalides: Link
A complex of buildings and monuments relating to military history of France including the tomb of Napoleon.

Musée D'orsay: Link
Located in a former railway station, it houses an extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces.

Rodin Museum: Link
Primarily dedicated to the works of sculptor Auguste Rodin

Quai Branly M.: Link
Showcasing the indigenous cultures and arts of Africa, Oceania, Asia, and the Americas

Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris): Link
It is a stunning Beaux-Arts palace offering free entry to its rich fine-arts collection, from antiquities to 19th-century masterpieces.

Grand Palais: Link
It is a historic exhibition hall and museum complex built for the 1900 Universal Exposition on the site of the former Palais de l’Industrie.

Musée Marmottan Monet: Link
Home to the world’s largest collection of Monet’s works, including Impression, Sunrise, the painting that gave Impressionism its name.

Musée Picasso Paris: Link
A beautifully restored mansion showcasing thousands of Picasso’s works, personal archives, and rotating exhibitions.

Paris is also home to numerous cultural centers, boutique museums, small art galleries & ateliers:

59 Rivoli: Link
An art collective in a former squat, with 30 artists' studios & an exhibition space

l'Atelier des Lumières: Link
A digital art museum located in a former foundry where you can experience art through light

Louis Vuitton Foundation: Link
Art museum and cultural center

Musée du Parfum: Link
A paradise for both perfume experts and amateurs 

Musée des Arts Forains: Link 
A whimsical private museum filled with historic fairground rides, games, and theatrical curiosities from the Belle Époque.

Sewers Museum: Link 
A unique underground museum that takes you through Paris’s historic sewer system and the engineering behind the city’s sanitation.

Les Caves du Louvre: Link 
An immersive wine experience located in 18th-century royal cellars, offering tastings and exhibits on French winemaking.

Hotel de Cluny: Link 
A medieval mansion housing treasures from the Middle Ages, including the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.

Musée de l’Orangerie: Link
A small but iconic museum famous for Monet’s monumental Water Lilies cycle, displayed exactly as the artist intended.