Museums in Paris
149 museums in Paris, France. Most visited: Louvre Museum.
Updated
149 museums with visitor guides on Mooseum
All museums in Paris
Most visited first (annual visitors from Wikipedia), then the museums with audio tours and indoor maps on Mooseum.
Louvre Museum
7,400,000 visitors a year
Nestled in the heart of Paris, the Louvre Museum is an iconic cultural haven that has captivated the imaginations of art enthusiasts and travelers alike for centuries. As the world’s largest and...
Musée d'Orsay
3,651,616 visitors a year
Nestled along the banks of the Seine in Paris, the Musée d'Orsay is a celebration of the artistic brilliance that flourished between 1848 and 1914. Housed in a stunning Beaux-Arts railway station,...
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
2,013,000 visitors a year
Built inside the shell of an unfinished 1970s slaughterhouse auction hall, the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the largest science museum in Europe. Architect Adrien Fainsilber reworked the...
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
1,900,000 visitors a year
In the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, a procession of mounted elephants, giraffes and other African mammals crosses the floor of a soaring 19th-century glass-roofed hall, while a separate room is...
Jardin d'Acclimatation
1,850,000 visitors a year
Opened in 1860 by Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie, the Jardin d'Acclimatation is one of the oldest leisure parks in Europe. It began as a zoological and botanical garden for exotic animals and...
Musée de l'Armée
1,525,030 visitors a year
Napoleon's tomb lies beneath the gilded Dôme des Invalides, and it is the reason many people come to the Army Museum, known on signs as the Musée de l'Armée. The emperor's remains were brought back...
National Museum of Modern Art
1,501,040 visitors a year
France's national collection of modern and contemporary art hangs inside the Centre Pompidou, the inside-out building by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers whose colour-coded pipes, ducts and glass-tubed...
Musée du quai Branly
1,496,439 visitors a year
Nestled along the banks of the Seine in Paris, the Musée du quai Branly offers a captivating journey into the rich tapestry of world cultures. Opened in 2006, this remarkable museum showcases an...
Musée de l'Orangerie
1,029,925 visitors a year
Nestled in the heart of Paris, the Musée de l'Orangerie is a true gem that invites visitors to immerse themselves in the world of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Housed in a charming...
Petit Palais
1,000,000 visitors a year
Built as an exhibition palace for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Charles Girault's Petit Palais is as much a draw as the art inside it. Its gilded entrance gate, mosaic floors, painted domes and...
Paris Zoological Park
911,000 visitors a year
A 65-metre artificial rock, the Grand Rocher, has towered over the Bois de Vincennes since the zoo opened in 1934, and it remains the landmark Parisians recognise from far across the woods. The Paris...
Musée d'art moderne de Paris
832,088 visitors a year
Raoul Dufy's La Fée Électricité, painted for the 1937 International Exposition, fills an entire curved room here and traces the history of electricity across hundreds of panels. Nearby, a dedicated...
Musée Picasso
766,764 visitors a year
Nestled in the heart of Paris, the Musée Picasso invites visitors to immerse themselves in the vibrant world of one of history’s most influential artists, Pablo Picasso. Housed in a beautifully...
Louis Vuitton Foundation
708,924 visitors a year
Frank Gehry's building is the reason many people come: a cluster of white volumes wrapped in twelve curved glass sails, rising from the edge of the Bois de Boulogne on the western side of Paris....
Musée Rodin
513,350 visitors a year
Auguste Rodin lived and worked in the Hôtel Biron, an 18th-century mansion on the Left Bank of Paris, and he gave his sculptures, drawings and personal collection to the French state on condition...
Catacombs of Paris
480,000 visitors a year
Beneath the streets of southern Paris, the bones of millions of former Parisians line the walls of old limestone quarry tunnels, stacked into walls of skulls and long bones. The Catacombs of Paris...
Musée de la mode et du textile
421,373 visitors a year
Fashion at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile is shown inside the Louvre palace itself. The museum occupies part of the Rohan and Marsan wings along the rue de Rivoli in Paris and is run by Les Arts...
Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée
372,831 visitors a year
Hundreds of skeletons fill the ground floor of the Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy (Galerie de Paléontologie et d'Anatomie comparée), arranged in a dense procession that all faces the...
Musée des monuments français
361,660 visitors a year
Full-size plaster casts of church portals, tombs and statues let visitors stand before the great sculpture of medieval France without leaving Paris. The Musée des monuments français occupies part of...
Musée de Cluny
360,100 visitors a year
Six tapestries woven around 1500, known together as The Lady and the Unicorn, hang in a dimly lit room at the Musée de Cluny, France's national museum of the Middle Ages (Musée national du Moyen Âge...
- Guimet Museum · 339,740 visitors a year
- Palais Galliera · 328,557 visitors a year
- Musée de l'Homme · 284,148 visitors a year
- Arab World Institute · 282,500 visitors a year
- Musée des Arts et Métiers · 239,200 visitors a year
- Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine · 223,921 visitors a year
- Maison de Victor Hugo · 193,554 visitors a year
- Musée de l'Air · 170,820 visitors a year
- Musée des Arts décoratifs · 144,390 visitors a year
- Musée Albert-Kahn · 143,474 visitors a year
- Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature · 127,039 visitors a year
- Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology · 108,382 visitors a year
- musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne · 107,309 visitors a year
- Paris Sewer Museum · 95,000 visitors a year
- Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration · 92,080 visitors a year
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme · 91,260 visitors a year
- Sèvres - Cité de la céramique · 89,000 visitors a year
- Musée de la musique · 85,629 visitors a year
- Musée de Montmartre · 85,000 visitors a year
- Musée national Eugène-Delacroix · 80,299 visitors a year
- Musée Jean Moulin · 76,460 visitors a year
- Musée de la Légion d'honneur · 74,200 visitors a year
- Musée Cognacq-Jay · 67,570 visitors a year
- Musée Gustave Moreau · 58,239 visitors a year
- Maison de Balzac · 53,314 visitors a year
- Musée de la Vie romantique · 52,130 visitors a year
- Musée Cernuschi · 41,500 visitors a year
- Musée Nissim de Camondo · 38,860 visitors a year
- musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis · 35,110 visitors a year
- Musée Bourdelle · 34,920 visitors a year
- Musée du Vin · 28,500 visitors a year
- Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · 23,203 visitors a year
- Musée National du Sport · 20,788 visitors a year
- Musée de La Poste · 20,530 visitors a year
- musée des années trente · 17,535 visitors a year
- Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer · 16,060 visitors a year
- Musée de la Franc-Maçonnerie · 10,000 visitors a year
- Musée Fragonard d'Alfort · 9,750 visitors a year
- Musée Carnavalet · 8,800 visitors a year
- Musée Zadkine · 8,710 visitors a year
- Musée d'histoire urbaine et sociale de Suresnes · 6,200 visitors a year
- Musée Rodin · 4,683 visitors a year
- Musée de l'Histoire vivante · 4,320 visitors a year
- Maison d'Auguste Comte · 2,654 visitors a year
- Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner · 2,278 visitors a year
- Musée d'Ennery · 710 visitors a year
- BnF Museum
- Adam Mickiewicz Museum
- American Center for Art and Culture
- Art Ludique
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Bibliothèque-musée de l'Opéra
- Centre de la mer et des eaux
- Cinémathèque Française
- Cité de l'économie et de la monnaie
- Dalí Paris
- Exploradôme
- fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
- Fondation Dosne-Thiers
- Fondation Le Corbusier
- Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
- Halle Saint-Pierre
- Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
- Historial Charles de Gaulle
- Institut Néerlandais
- Institut Tessin
- La contemporaine
- La Maison Rouge
- Luxembourg Museum
- maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau
- Maison européenne de la photographie
- Maison Gainsbourg
- Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
- Maxim's Art Nouveau "Collection 1900"
- Mémorial de la Shoah
- Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes
- Mundolingua
- Musée arménien de France
- Musée Baccarat
- Musée Bible et Terre Sainte
- Musée Bouchard
- Musée Bouilhet-Christofle
- Musée Clemenceau
- Musée Curie
- Musée d'Anatomie Delmas-Orfila-Rouvière
- Musée d'Art Dentaire Pierre Fauchard
- musée Dapper
- Musée de l'Éventail
- Musée de l'Holographie
- Musée de l'ordre de la Libération
- Musée de la Contrefaçon
- Musée de la Magie
- Musée de la Poupée
- Musée de la Publicité
- Musée de Minéralogie
- Musée de Radio France
- Musée des Arts forains
- Musée des Collections Historiques de la Préfecture de Police
- Musée des Plans-Reliefs
- Musée du 11 Conti
- Musée du Barreau de Paris
- Musée du Fumeur
- Musée du Montparnasse
- Musée du Parfum
- Musée Dupuytren
- Musée Édith Piaf
- Musée Edouard Branly
- musée en herbe
- Musée Grévin
- Musée Grévin – Forum des Halles
- Musée Jacquemart-André
- Musée Maillol
- Musée Marmottan Monet
- Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
- Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires
- Musée Pasteur
- Musée Valentin Haüy
- Museum of Eroticism
- Museum of National Archives
- Museum of the History of Medicine
- Palais de la Découverte
- Palais de la Légion d'Honneur
- Palais de Tokyo
- Panthéon Bouddhique
- Pavillon de l'Arsenal
- Pavillon des Arts
- Pinacothèque de Paris
- Polish Library in Paris
- Salle des Traditions de la Garde Républicaine
Map of museums in Paris
Museums in Paris: questions
- How many museums are there in Paris?
- Mooseum lists 149 museums in Paris.
- What are the most visited museums in Paris?
- By annual visitors reported on Wikipedia: Louvre Museum (7,400,000), Musée d'Orsay (3,651,616) and Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (2,013,000).
Museums near Paris
From the blog
- How Do You Do Museums? What the Research Says, and What It Doesn't
Most people visit museums a few times a year, rarely alone, and look at a painting for about 17 seconds. Here's what the research says about museum habits, and a 3-minute survey to fill in the gaps.
- The Best Museum You'll Ever Visit Is One You've Never Heard Of
The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. The Met has the Temple of Dendur. But the museum visit you'll actually remember might be a three-room house in a city you visited on a layover.
- Why You Forget Most of What You See in Museums
You spent three hours in a world-class museum last year. How much do you actually remember? The problem isn't your memory — it's how museums are designed to be consumed.
- Museum Fatigue Is Real (Here's How to Beat It)
That glazed-over feeling halfway through the Met isn't boredom. It's museum fatigue, a phenomenon studied since 1916. Here's what causes it and how to fight back.
Museums are grouped by the nearest city to their location, using place data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).