From sex to sewage, and art to advertising. You name it, Paris has a museum dedicated to it.
The city is as famous for its galleries and museums as it is for its food and fashion.
Paris is bursting with dozens of world-renown museums from the small and unassuming, to the palatial.
Inside its museums are hundreds of exhibitions. A frequently changing selection of interesting displays focusing on the sordid details of people, places, times and things.
Know that most of Paris’ museums are free on the first Sunday of each month, so if you’re in town around then, save some money!
If you’re going to be hitting the Paris Musem scene pretty hard, it’s also a good idea to consider investing in a Paris Museum Pass.
They’re not cheap – starting at about $60 (plus postage, which could set you back another $35) – but they give you unlimited access to more than 60 museums and monuments in Paris and the surrounding areas. When you consider each museum costs about $20 for entry alone, you can see the value.
For more information, check out the Paris Museum Pass official website.
Arc de Triomphe
Standing at 50 metres high and situated in the centre of 12 radiating avenues, the Arc de Triomphe is as much a symbol of France as the Eiffel Tower. The monument honours those who fought and died in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars. The museum inside details the Arc’s construction and history.
Hours
April-September 1000-2300
October-March 1000-2230
Price
$12
Location
Place Charles de Gaulle
75016
Mo.
Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
Kléber
George V
Argentine
Official site
Musée de l’Armée – Tombeau de Napoléon 1er
Featuring a huge collection of weapons and uniforms tracing France’s military conflicts, plus Napoleon’s gilded tomb.
Price
$14
Location
129 Rue de Grenelle
75007
Mo.
Saint-François-Xavier
La Tour-Maubourg
Varenne
Invalides
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Historic complex and museum space featuring cultural events and exhibitions.
Hours
1000-1900 Thursday-Monday
1000-2100 Wednesdays
Closed Tuesdays
Price
Prices start at around $18 but are dependent on exhibitions.
Location
3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008
Mo.
Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine
Museum of Architecture
Hours
1100-1900 Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
1100-2100 Thursday
Closed Tuesday
Price
$12
Location
1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
75016
Mo.
Trocadéro
Musée du Quai Branly
Museum featuring indigenous art and artifacts from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
Hours
1100-1900 Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday
0930-2000 Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Close Monday
Price
From $28 depending on the exhibition
Location
37 Quai Branly
75007
Mo.
Pont de l’Alma
Official site
Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes de Cluny
National Museum of the Middle Ages – Cluny thermal baths and mansion
The museum houses a a variety of important medieval artifacts, in particular its tapestry collection, which includes the fifteenth century tapestry The lady and the Unicorn. The collection also includes early medieval sculptures from the seventh and eighth centuries, and works of gold, ivory, antique furnishings, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts.
Hours
Wednesday-Monday 0915-1745
Closed Tuesdays
Price
From $14.50
Location
6 Place Paul Painlevé
75005
Mo.
Cluny – La Sorbonne
Official site
Musée Jacquemart-André
The private home and art collection of Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart.
Hours
Monday-Sunday 1000-1800
Extended hours on Monday and Saturdays during exhibitions.
Price
From $17.50
Location
158, bd Haussmann
75008
Mo.
Miromesnil
Saint-Philippe-du-Roule
Saint-Augustin
Musée Carnavalet
A museum devoted to the transformation of Paris from the village of Lutèce to the grand city it is today. The museum houses hundreds of thousands of paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs, sculptures, furniture, ceramics, models, reliefs, and signs.
Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 1000-1800
Closed Mondays
Price
$13
Location
16 Rue des Francs Bourgeois
75003
Mo.
Saint-Paul
Chemin Vert
Musée du Luxembourg
Situated in the famous Luxembourg Gardens, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, the museum hosts a number of prestigious exhibitions.
Hours
Tuesday-Sunda 1000-1900
Mondays 1000-2200
Price
$20
Location
19 rue de Vaugirard
75006
Mo.
Rennes
Sainte-Placide
Notre-Dame-des-Champs
Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne
The largest Modern Art Museum in Europe.
Hours
1100-2200 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$20
Location
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004
Mo.
Rambutau
Hôtel de Ville
Musée national des Arts Asiatiques – Guimet
One of the largest collections of Asian art outside Asia.
Hours
Wednesday-Monday 1000-1800
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$11
Location
6, place d’Iéna
75016
Mo.
Iéna
Trocadéro
Boissière
Musée des Arts décoratifs
A museum of the decorative arts and design, located in the Palais du Louvre’s western wing. It houses and displays furniture, interior design, altar pieces, religious paintings, objets d’arts, tapestries, wallpaper, ceramics and glassware, plus toys from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Hours
Tuesday to Sunday 1100-1800
Thursday 1100-2100
Closed Monday
Price
From $16
Location
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001
Mo.
Pyramides
Tuileries
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre
Official site
Espaces Mode et Textile
The museum of Fashion and textiles. It houses more than 6,000 items of silks, embroidery, printed cotton, costumes, lace, and tapestry. Important French fashion designers and textile artists whose works are held in the collection include Azzedine Alaïa, Pierre Balmain, André Courrèges, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Jeanne Lanvin, Paul Poiret, Paco Rabanne, Yves Saint Laurent, Elsa Schiaparelli, Madeleine Vionnet, Sonia Delaunay, Raoul Dufy, and others.
Hours
Tuesday to Sunday 1100-1800
Thursday 1100-2100
Closed Mondays
Price
From $16
Location
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001
Mo.
Pyramides
Tuileries
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre
Espaces Publicité
Temporary exhibitions dedicated to graphic designers and brands. Collection of posters, press annoucements, radio spots, advertising films, are available for consultation in the media library.
Price
From $16
Location
107 Rue de Rivoli
75001
Mo.
Pyramides
Tuileries
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre
Official site
Musée Nissim de Camondo
Museum of French decorative arts. The elegant house was built in 1911 by Comte Moïse de Camondo to set off his collection of eighteenth-century French furniture and art objects. The house is maintained as if it were still a private home preserved in its original condition.
Hours
Wednesday to Sunday 1000-1730
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Price
$16
Location
63 rue de Monceau
75008
Mo.
Monceau
Villiers
Official site
Musée des Arts et Métiers
Museum of Arts and Crafts is an industrial design museum in Paris. It houses the collection of the National Conservatory of Arts and Industry – a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
Hours
Tuesday and Wednesday 1000-1800
Thursday 1000-2130
Friday to Sunday 1000-1800
Price
$9.50
Location
60 Rue Réaumur
75003
Mo.
Arts et Métiers
Réaumur – Sébastopol
Temple
Musée de la Magie
The Museum of Magic occupies 16th-century cellars beneath the Marquis de Sade’s house. It includes items relating to magic shows, including optical illusions, secret boxes, wind-up toys, magic mirrors, see-through glasses,and posters.
Hours
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 1400 – 1900
Price
From $13
Location
11 Rue Saint-Paul
75004
Mo.
St. Paul
Sully Morland
Bastille
Chapelle expiatoire
A chapel dedicated to Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette.
Hours
1100-1800 (extended to 1900 in July and August).
Price
$8
Location
29 Rue Pasquier
75008
Mo.
Saint Augustin
Havre – Caumartin
Saint – Lazare
La Cinémathèque française – Musée du Cinéma
A museum devoted to the history and pre-history of cinema. It houses optical instruments, cameras, magic lanterns, costumes, posters, and cult objects.
Hours
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1200-1900
Sunday 1000-2000
Closed Tuesday
Price
From $7
Location
51 Rue de Bercy
75012
Mo.
Cour Saint-Émilion
Bercy
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie – universcience
The biggest science museum in Europe.
Hours
1000-18000 Tuesday-Saturday
1000-1900 Sunday
Closed Mondays
Price
$17.50
Location
30 Avenue Corentin Cariou
75019
Mo.
Porte de Pantin
Corentin Cariou
Porte de la Vilette
Conciergerie
The Conciergerie is a former prison. It was part of the former royal palace, the Palais de la Cité. Hundreds of prisoners during the French Revolution were taken to from the Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine.
Hours
0930-1800 Monday-Sunday
Price
$13
Location
2 Boulevard du Palais
75001
Mo.
Cité
Châtelet
Le Musée de l’érotisme
Paris’ infamous sex museum is devoted to erotic art collections. The collection ranges from the ancient religious art of India, Japan and Africa, right up to contemporary erotic art.
Hours
1000-0200 Monday-Sunday
Price
$11
Location
72 Boulevard de Clichy
75018
Mo.
Blanche
Pigalle
Place de Clichy
Espace Dalí
The only permanent exhibition in Paris devoted to Salvador Dali – in particular his sculptures and engravings.
Hours
1000-1800 Monday-Sunday
1000-2000 in July and August
Price
$17
Location
11 Rue Poulbot
75018
Mo.
Abesse
Pigalle
Anvers
Lamarck – Caulaincourt
Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Museum dedicated to the painter Eugène Delacroix
Hours
0930-1700 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
From $9
Location
6 Rue de Furstenberg
75006
Mo.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Mabillon
Odéon
Musée des égouts
A museum dedicated to the sewer system of Paris.
Hours
1100-1600 Saturday to Wednesday
Closed Thursdays and Fridays.
Price
From $6
Guided tour recommended
Location
Pont de l’Alma
75007
Mo.
Pont de L’Alma
Alma – Marceau
Invalides
Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arabe
Founded by 18 Arab countries with France to research and disseminate information about the Arab world and its cultural and spiritual values.
Hours
1000-1800 Tuesday – Thursday
1000-2130 Friday
1000-1900 Saturday – Sundays
Closed Mondays
Price
$12
Location
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard
75005
Mo.
Jessieu
Cardinal Lemoine
Sully Morland
Maubert – Mutualité
Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme
Museum of Jewish art and history.
Hours
1100-1800 Monday to Friday
1000-1800 Sundays
Closed Saturday
Price
$12
Location
71 rue du Temple
75003
Mo.
rambuteau
Hôtel de Ville
Saint-Paul
Arts et Métiers
Musée du Louvre
Hardly needs an introduction – it’s one of the world’s largest museums and a historic monument in Paris and is divided into Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings. The building itself is a masterpiece in itself.
Hours
0900-1800 Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday
0900-2145 Wednesday
Closed Tuesdays.
Price
From $21
Location
75001
Mo.
Louvre – Rivoli
Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre
Musée national de la Marine
National Navy Museum. The permanent collection originates in a collection that dates back to Louis XV.
Hours
1100-1800 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
11-1900 Saturday, Sunday
Closed Tuesdays.
Price
$12.50
Location
1 Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
75116
Mo.
Trocadéro
Iéna
Boissière
Art museum dedicated to the works of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
Hours
1000-1245; 1400-1715 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
1000-1715 Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Price
$7
Location
14 Rue de la Rochefoucauld
75009
Mo.
Trinité – d’Estienne d’Orves
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
cadet
Pigalle
Le Musée d’Edith Piaf
Museum celebrating on of Paris’ most famous daughters.
Hours
1300-1800 Monday to Wednesday
Price
$6
Location
5 Rue Crespin du Gast
75011
Mo.
Ménilmontant
Rue Saint Maur
Couronnes
Musée Marmottan Monet
Featuring more than 300 works of Impressionist and post-Impressionist works by Claude Monet
Hours
1000-1800 Tuesday-Sunday
1000-2100 Thursday
Closed Monday
Price
$16
Location
2 Rue Louis Boilly
75016
Mo.
La Muette
Boulainevilliers
Ranelagh
Philarmonie de Paris – Musée de la musique
The Museum of music represents a collection of more than 7000 instruments and art objects.
Hours
1200-1800 Tuesday-Friday
1000-1800 Saturday and Sunday
Price
$10
Location
221 Avenue Jean Jaurès
75019
Mo.
Porte de Pantin
Hoche
Ourcq
Crypte archéologique du Parvis Notre-Dame
A display of ancient, Medieval & more recent remains found under Notre Dame during renovations.
Hours
Tuesday-Sunday 1000-1800
Closed Mondays.
Price
$10
Location
7 Parvis Notre-Dame – Pl. Jean-Paul II
75004
Mo.
Cité
Hôtel de Ville
RER
Saint-Michel – Notre Dame
Tours de Notre-Dame
The towering 13th century cathedral with flying buttresses and gargoyles.
Hours
0800-1845 Monday-Friday
0800-1915 Saturday and Sunday
1000-2300 in July and August
Price
$12.50
Location
7 Parvis Notre-Dame – Pl. Jean-Paul II
75004
Mo.
Cité
Hôtel de Ville
RER
Saint-Michel – Notre Dame
Musée national de l’Orangerie
An art gallery of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. Though most famous for being the permanent home for eight Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, the museum also contains works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaim Soutine, and Maurice Utrillo, among others.
Hours
0900-1800 Monday-Sunday
Closed Tuesdays.
Price
$13
Location
Jardin Tuileries
75001
Mo.
Concorde
Tuileries
Pyramides
Musée d’Orsay
The museum – which is housed in a former train station – features the world’s largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces in the world by painters Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Hours
0930-1800 Tuesday-Sunday
0930-2145 Thursday
Closed Mondays
Price
$16
Location
1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur
75007
Mo.
Musée d’Orsay
Assemblée Nationale
Solférino
Musée du Parfum
A private museum of perfume.
Hours
0900-1800 Monday-Saturday
0900-1700 Sunday
Price
Free
Location
9 Rue Scribe
75009
Mo.
Auber
Opéra
Chaussée d’Antin – La Fayette
Panthéon
The Panthéon was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.
Hours
1000-1830 Monday-Sunday
Price
$11
Location
Place du Panthéon
75005
Mo.
Cardinal Lemoine
Jussieu
Maubert – Mutualité
Place Monge
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Museum dedicated to the work of the artist Pablo Picasso.
Hours
1130-1800 Tuesday- Friday
0930-1800 Saturday and Sunday
Closed Monday
Price
$16
Location
5 Rue de Thorigny
75003
Mo.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Focusing on contemporary photographic art.
Hours
1100-2000 Wednesday-Sunday
Price
$12
Location
5 Rue de Fourcy
75004
Mo.
Saint-Paul
Pont Marie
Musée des Plans-reliefs
A collection of three-dimensional models of fortified cities, dating back to 1668.
Hours
1000-1700 Tuesday-Sunday
Price
$14
Location
Musée des Plans-reliefs
75007
Mo.
Rue du Bac
Saint-François-Xavier
Invalides
Official site
Musée Rodin
Museum dedicated to the works of the French Sculptor Auguste Rodin. The collection includes 6,600 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 old photographs and 7,000 objets d’art.
Hours
1000-1745 Tuesday-Sunday
1000-2030 Wednesdays
Price
$12
Location
79 Rue de Varenne,
75007
Mo.
Varenne
Saint-François-Xavier
Rue du Bac
Sainte-Chapelle
A royal medieval Gothic chapel located near the Palais de la Cité. Its erection was commissioned by King Louis IV to house his collection of Passion Relics – including Christ’s crown of Thorns.
Hours
0930-1800 Monday-Sunday
Price
$12.50
Location
8 Boulevard du Palais
75001
Mo.
Cité
Hôtel de Ville
RER
Saint-Michel – Notre Dame
Maison de Victor Hugo
The house where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years.
Hours
1000-1800 Tuesday to Sunday
Closed Mondays
Price
Free
Location
6 Place des Vosges
75004
Mo.
PARIS REGION
Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace
French Aerospace museum.
Hours
1000-1700 October – March
1100-1800 April to September
Closed on Tuesdays
Price
$12
Location
Aéroport de Paris – Le Bourget, 93352
Mo.
La Courneuve + bus 152
RER
Le Bourget + Bus 152
Musée d’Archéologie nationale et Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
National archaeology museum covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period. It’s located about 19 kilometres west of Paris.
Hours
1000-1700 Wednesday-Sunday
Closed Mondays
Price
$10
Location
Place Charles de Gaulle
78100
RER
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Official site
Sèvres, Cité de la céramique – Musée national de la céramique
National ceramics museum
Hours
1000-1700 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesday
Price
$9
Location
2 Place de la Manufacture
92310
Mo.
Pont de Sèvres
Official site
Abbaye royale de Chaalis
A French Cistercian abbey north of Paris. It is the site of the Musée Jacquemart-André and houses part of the former collection of artworks of Nélie Jacquemart-André.
Hours
1100-1800 Seven Days
Price
$10
Location
Fontaine-Chaalis
60300
Château de Champs-sur-Marne
One of the finest examples of neo-classical architecture in France.
Hours
1000-1215-1330-1800 Wednesday to Monday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$11
Location
31 rue de Paris
77420
RER
Line A, station Noisiel le Luzard
BUS 220
Musées et domaine nationaux du Palais impérial de Compiègne
A French a château built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. It was one of three seats of royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau.
Hours
1000-1800 Wednesday-Monday
Price
$11
Location
Place du Général de Gaulle
60200
Train
From Gare du Nord to Compiègne
Musée Condé – Château de Chantilly
Containing a collection of old master paintings – one of the most important in France. It consists predominantly of Italian and French works and includes three paintings by Fra Angelico, three by Rafael, five by Nicolas Poussin, four by Antoine Watteau and five signed by Ingres. The museum hold a collection of 2,5000 drawings and a library including 1,500 manuscripts.
Hours
1030-1800 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$23
Location
Château de Chantilly
60500
Train
To Chantilly – 25 minutes from Paris – Chantilly-Gouvieux stop.
Musée départemental Maurice Denis
The museum is dedicated to Nabi art. It’s named for Maurice Denis, a French symbolist Nabi painter. The museum showcases his work as well as that of many other members of the school; it is the largest collection of Nabi art in France.
Hours
1000-1230, 1400-1730 Tuesday-Friday
Closed Monday
Price
$6.50
Location
2bis Rue Maurice Denis
78100
RER
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Château de Fontainebleau
Located 55 kilometres southeast of Pairs – it’s one of the largest French royal châteaux. The medieval castle and later château was the residence of French monarchs from Louis VII through Napoleon III. Napoleon I abdicated his throne there before being exiled to Elba. The national museum and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hours
0930-1700 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesday
Price
$16
Location
Fontainebleau
77300
Train
Fontainebleau Avon
Château de Maisons-Laffitte
The Château de Maisons was built in the 17th century on a hill overlooking a bend in the Seine. It is the work of the king’s architect François Mansart who was then at the very pinnacle of his glorious career. The majesty, symmetry and harmonious forms of this splendid château make it an architectural masterpieces of its age.
The Château de Maisons stands on the edge of Saint-Germain forest and was used as the king’s residence after he had been hunting.
Hours
1000-1230; 1400-1800 Wednesday to Sunday
Closed Tuesday
Price
$11
Location
2 Avenue Carnot
78600
RER
Maisons-Laffitte
Musée national des Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau
Former country home of Napoleon & Joséphine, with 19th-century decor, furnishing & paintings.
Hours
1000-1230, 1330-1730 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Tuesday
Price
$9.50
Location
Avenue du Château de Malmaison
92500
Mo.
From La Défense take bus 258 to “Le Château” (25 minutes).
Car
Take RN 13 from Paris.
Shuttles leave Paris during the summer months from 2 rue des Pyramids.
Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages, though it underwent a major restoration in the 19th century.
Hours
0930-1800 Monday-Sunday
Closed Mondays between September and April
Price
$11
Location
Rue Viollet le Duc
60350
Car
Motorway A 1, exit n° 9, then secondary road D 200 towards Compiègne and D 973
Musée national de Port-Royal des Champs
The national museum covers 35 ha of parkland and boasts a rich collection of paintings, books and engravings, abbey ruins, buildings constructed in the 15th to 19th cent. and inner gardens.
Hours
1000-1200, 1400-1730 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Closed Tuesday
1030-1800 Saturday and Sunday.
Price
$6.50
Location
Route des Granges
78114
Mo.
Château de Rambouillet, Laiterie de la Reine et Chaumière aux Coquillages
The summer residence of the Presidents of the French Republic.
Hours
1000-1800 Wednesday-Sunday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$8
Location
Rambouillet
78120
Road
Porte de Saint-Cloud, motorway A 13, exit n° 6, motorway A 12 and main road N 10 towards Rambouillet
Musée national de la Renaissance – Château d’Ecouen
A historical château north of Paris. The museum houses Renaissance objects.
Hours
0930-1245 + 1400-1745 Wednesday-Monday
Closed Monday
Price
$7
Location
Rue Jean Bullant
95440
Train
Écouen – Ézanville
Official site
Maison d’Auguste Rodin à Meudon
The domain of Meudon includes the villa-workshop where Auguste Rodin lived and a museum presents the plaster casts and models of the great sculptures.
Hours
1300-1800 Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Price
$7
Location
19 Avenue Auguste Rodin
92190
Mo.
Mairie d’Issy
then bus n°190, 290, 169
Basilique cathédrale de Saint-Denis
A large medieval abbey church in the city of Saint-Denis.
Hours
1000-1815 Monday-Saturday
1200-1815 Sunday
Price
$12.50
Location
1 Rue de la Légion d’Honneur
93200
Mo.
Basilique de Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis – Porte de Paris
Villa Savoye
Modernist villa on the outskirts of Pairs. It was designed by internationally known Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret between 1928 and 1931.
Hours
1000-1700 Tuesday-Sunday
Closed Tuesdays
Price
$11
Location
82 Rue de Villiers
78300
RER
Poissy Station + bus 50 direction “la Coudraie”.
Car
Porte de Saint-Cloud motorway A13, exit 7.
Port Maillot road N13, Moterway A14, exit 6
Musée national des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
The Palace of Versailles is a royal château in the Île-de-France region of France. The court of Versailles was the centre of political power in France from 1682 when Louis XIV moved from Pairs, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in 1789, after the beginning of the French Revolution.
Hours
Palace
April 1 – October 31
0900-1830
November 1 – 31 March
0900-1730
Trianon Palaces + Marie-Antoinette’s Estate
April 1 – October 31
1200-1830
November 1 – 31 March
1200-1730
Garden
April 1 – October 31
0800-2030
November 1 – 31 March
0800-1800
Park
April 1 – October 31
0700-2030
November 1 – 31 March
0800-1800
Price
$22
Location
Place d’Armes, Versailles
78000
RER
Versailles – Château
Château de Vincennes
Massive 12th century French royal castle to the east of Paris.
Hours
1000-1700 23 September to 20 May
1000-1800 21 May to 22 September
Price
$12
Location
Avenue de Paris
94300
Mo.
Château de Vincennes
Bérault
And many, many, many more.
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