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The Complete List of Paris Museums & Monuments

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This information on Parisian sights has been gathered over the past 20 years through my work as a tour guide, a private travel consultant, and while writing and updating over a dozen guidebooks to Paris for Fodors, Michelin Green Guides, Time Out and countless websites. Rather than listing “the best” museums and monuments in Paris, I hope this guide provides you with enough information on each location to help you decide that for yourselves. I guarantee that no matter how well you think you know Paris, there’s a place on this list you haven’t discovered…yet!

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Air et de l’Espace (Air & Space Museum)

American Center for Art & Culture (formerly Mona Bismarck Foundation)

Années 30 (1930s Museum)

Antiquités Nationales – St Germain en Laye

Arc de Triomphe

Armée – Invalides (Military Museum)

Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Arts Asiatiques – Guimet (Asian Arts Museum)

Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts Museum)

Arts Forains (Carnival Arts Museum)

Arts et Métiers Museum

Assemblée Nationale – Palais Bourbon

Assistance Publique Museum

Baccarat Museum

Balzac Maison

Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Site Mitterrand (New National Library)

Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Site Richelieu (Old National Library and Museum)

Bourdelle Museum

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

Cartier Foundation

Carnavalet (History of Paris Museum)

Catacombes

Centre Pompidou Museum

Cernuschi Museum

Chasse et Nature (Hunting and Nature Museum)

Chateaubriand Maison 

Choco Story (Chocolate Museum)

Cinémathèque Française

Cité de l’Architecture – Palais de Chaillot

Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie

Citéco – Cité de l’Economie

Cluny (Middle Ages Museum)

Cognacq-Jay Museum

Conciergerie Museum

Dapper Museum

Delacroix Museum

Dubuffet Foundation

Edith Piaf Museum

Egouts de Paris (Municipal Sewers Visits)

Eiffel Tower

Erotisme (Erotic Museum) permanently closed

Espace EDF Electra

Eventail (Antique Fan Museum)

Fragonard (Perfume Museum)

Franc-Maçonnerie (Free Masons Museum)

Fumeur (Smoking Museum)

Galerie Dior

Galliera – Mode de la Ville de Paris (Fashion Museum)

Gobelins Tapestry Manufacture

Grande Arche de La Défense

Grande Mosquée de Paris

Grand Palais

Grevin Wax Museum

Gustave Moreau Museum

Halle St-Pierre – Art Naïf Max Fourny (Naïve Art Musum)

Hébert Museum

Henri Bouchard Museum

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

Histoire de France – Versailles Chateau

Histoire de la Médecine (Medical History Museum)

Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History)

Homme – Palais de Chaillot (Anthropology Museum)

Hôtel de la Marine (Place de la Concorde)

Hôtel de Sens – Bibliothèque Forney (Arts Library)

Hôtel de Ville (City Hall)

Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab Arts Museum)

Institut Océanographique

Jacquemart-André Museum

Jeu de Paume (Photography Museum)

Judaïsme (Jewish Art and History Museum)

Lettres et Manuscrits Museum

Libération de Paris – Général Leclerc et Jean Moulin Museum

Louvre Museum

Luxembourg Museum

Magie (Magic Museum)

Maillol Museum

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Marine (Naval History Museum, Trocadéro)

Marmottan – Claude Monet Museum

Mona Bismarck (American Foundation)

Monnaie de Paris

Montmartre

Montparnasse Museum

Montparnasse Tower

Musique – La Villette (Music Museum)

Nissim de Camondo Museum

Notre Dame de Paris Cathédral

Opéra Palais Garnier – La Bibliothèque

Opéra Bastille

Orangerie Museum

Orsay Museum

Palais de la Découverte

Palais de Luxembourg – Sénat

Palais de Tokyo: Site du Création Contemporaine

Panthéon

Pavillon de l’Arsenal (Paris Urban Planning)

Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux Arts (Fine Arts Museum)

Plateau – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (Contemporary Arts Space)

Picasso Museum

Poste (Postal Service History Museum)

Poupée (Doll Museum) Permanently Closed

Préfecture de Police (Paris Police Museum)

Quai Branly (Primitive Arts Museum)

Renaissance – Château d’Ecouen (outside Paris)

Résistance Nationale – Champigny-sur-Marne (outside Paris)

Rodin Museum

Sacré-Cœur Basilica

Saint-Chapelle

Saint-Denis Basilica

Saint-Eustache Church

Saint-Germain-des-Près Church

Saint-Sulpice Church

Service de Santé des Armées (Military Hospital Museum)

Sèvres – Musée National de la Céramique (Ceramics Museum)

Shoah Mémorial (Holocaust Memorial Museum)

St-Denis – Art et d’Histoire (outside Paris)

Tenniseum (Roland Garros Museum)

Tour Jean Sans Peur (Medieval Residence)

Versailles Château

Victor Hugo Maison

Vie Romantique (Romantics and Ary Scheffer Museum)

Vin (Wine Museum)

Vincennes Château

Yves Saint-Laurent – Pierre Bergé Fondation

Zadkine Museum

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