Top 10 - Free museums in Paris

1.Musée Carnavalet

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1880 r.
The collection includes: items from the French Revolutionary period; paintings, sculptures and other items from the medieval period.
Website link: https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/

Mousseée Carnavalet is a museum dedicated to the history of Paris. It is the oldest museum in Paris and consists of two buildings, dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. The Hotel Carnavalet building was erected as early as 1548, but it was not purchased for cultural purposes until 1866. It opened to the public in the year of 1880. Located in the Le Marais district, the museum has a collection of more than 625 thousand exhibits.

Introduction to Musée Carnavalet is free, making it quite popular with tourists coming to Paris. This remarkable museum features collections divided thematically, and include, among others: Antiquity and prehistory, From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (5th-16th century), Paris of Henry IV and Louis XIV (late 16th and 17th centuries) , French Revolution whether Paris of Napoleon III.

2.The Petit Palais

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1900 r.
The collection includes: the museum's holdings are mainly works of art dating from antiquity to the 20th century.
Website link: https://www.petitpalais.paris.fr/

The Petit Palais is a Parisian museum specially built for the World Exposition held in 1900.The Little Palace is connected to the Grand Palais - The two buildings form an architectural ensemble. Since 1902, the Little Palace has housed the Museum of Fine Arts, and its collection includes. more than 40 thousand exhibits Beginning with the ancient period and ending with the 20th.

At the main exhibition, to which admission is free we can find, among other things: exhibits from ancient Egypt and Greece, Flemish paintings, sculptures, works of art of the greatest French artists -. Rembrandt, Delaxroix whether Rubens and the Impressionists - Maneta, Coin or Cezanna.

In addition, the Petit Palais Museum regularly organizes temporary exhibitions, which he usually dedicates to contemporary art, photography or outstanding, deserving individuals.

3.Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1961 r.
The collection includes: the museum's collection brings together works of contemporary art from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Website link: https://www.mam.paris.fr/

The Paris Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1961 r. The facility has in its collection More than 15 thousand different works of art from various painting trends from the 20th century. This museum was recently renovated and reopened to the public in October 2019.

Entrance to the museum is free, which makes the interest in visiting it huge. On average 800,000 tourists visits this gallery. The museum also holds temporary exhibitions - every six weeks you can see temporary exhibitions at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

Among the museum's most valuable collections are works by artists such as: Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Georges Braque or Zao Wou-Ki. In the museum itself, we can also find the following collections: Andy Warhol 1970 Rétrospective, John Heartfield 1974 Photomontages, Hannah Höch 1976 Rétrospective or Gregor Schneider 1998.

4.Maison de Balzac

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of establishment: 1949 r.
The collection includes: the museum's collection includes everyday items belonging to Honore de Balzac.
Website link: https://www.maisondebalzac.paris.fr/

Maison de Balzac is the house-museum of the famous French writer Honore de Balzac. It is the only property once inhabited by this artist that has survived to the present day. It is located in the sixteenth district of Paris on Rue Raynouard.

Introduction to Balzac's museum home is free, only temporary exhibitions held from time to time at the facility are paid for. The museum's collection includes not only items once used by the writer (e.g., chair, desk), but also daguerreotype depicting Balzac, and oil portraits of Balzac and his parents.

The first floor of the museum has for some time housed a library where we can find Balzac's original texts, illustrations and manuscripts. Adjoining the house is a garden, where Honore de Balzac's novel cycle "The Garden of the World" was created. "Human Comedy.

5. mémorial de la Shoah

Opening hours: Monday-Wednesday, Friday, Sunday 10:00-18:00; Thursday 10:00-22:00, Saturday - closed
Date of creation: 2005 r.
The collection includes: collections deal with the history of Jews during World War II.
Website link: https://www.memorialdelashoah.org/

Shoah Memorial Museum It is located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris in Le Marais. There you will find mainly collections related to the history of the Jews during World War II. The facility also houses a documentation center that collects documents depicting the realization of the Holocaust against Jews during World War II.

The museum's exhibition is located in the basement, specifically in the crypt. A Star of David has been placed just above the entrance to the crypt to symbolize the 6 million Jewish dead of World War II. In addition to the actual exhibition, two memorials can be seen on the museum grounds: The Wall of the Righteous and Wall of Names.

The first of these so-called. Mur des Noms is a wall on which were inscribed 76,000 names, surnames and dates of birth of Jews who were deported from France and died in death camps. The second monument is in the form of a wall, which commemorates those French citizens who received the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

6.Musée Curie

Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 13:00-17:00, Sunday-Tuesday - closed
Date of creation: 1995 r.
The collection includes: the museum's collections form a permanent exhibition on radiology research, its impact on medicine, etc.
Website link: https://musee.curie.fr/

Curie Museum is a historical museum with a wealth of information on radiological research. The facility was renovated in 2012 and since then you can see the exhibitions in a new, renovated format.

The museum's permanent exhibition focuses mainly on radioactivity and its applications in medicine, for example. Quite a lot of space is devoted to it, of course Marie and Pierre Curie. In addition, the museum exhibits research apparatuses used before 1940.

The facility also includes a center where historical resources are stored, namely. Curie archives, photographs or documents, Curie Institute and history of radiology and oncology.

7. Maison de Victor Hugo

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1903 r.
The collection includes: everyday objects belonging to Victor Hugo.
Link to website: https://www.maisonsvictorhugo.paris.fr/

Maison de Victor Hugo is a house-museum once owned by the famous French writer Victor Hugo. He inhabited the house for 16 years, between 1832 and 1848 with his wife Adele, as well as after he returned from exile in 1878-1885.

In these historic interiors, tourists can see for themselves original furniture and household items belonging to the writer. In addition, it also collected works of art acquired by Hugo and drawings and paintings by him. The house is also the site of the author's death, the photo above shows room and bed, in which Hugo completed his life.

The townhouse in which this museum is located often hosts paid temporary exhibitions, but it is worth remembering that the museum itself The tour of Victor Hugo's house is completely free of charge. This is an extremely low price for feeling such a unique atmosphere of this place.

8 Musée des Arts et Métiers

Opening hours: Tuesday-Thursday, Saturday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Friday 10:00-21:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1794 r.
The collection includes: historical equipment, models and technical drawings.
Website link: https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/

Museum of the History of Technology in Paris is the oldest technology museum in the world. After a major reconstruction, which was carried out on the museum's 200th anniversary, the exhibits have been reformulated, and at this point they are problem-based and deal with, for example, interpersonal communication.

Admission to the museum is free, which makes it all the more appealing for incoming tourists to visit this unusual place. Among the exhibits of this museum we can find: 1769 steam vehicle., the first internal combustion engines, the oldest French cars from the 19th century.

A certain part of the exhibition is also found in the nave and Presbytery of the former St. Martin's Church. It was there that the Foucault's pendulum, commanding the rotation of the Earth with its motion.

9. the Musée de la Vie Romantique

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00 Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1982 r.
The collection includes: the collection is dedicated to the artists of the Romantic era.
Website link: https://museevieromantique.paris.fr/fr

Museum of Romanticism is one of three literary museums located in Paris. The other two are the House of Victor Hugo and the House of Honore de Balzac. The estate was in the hands of the Sheffer-Renan family for a long period of time. In one of the permanent exhibitions we can see the works of one of the members of that family Ary Sheffer's.

This small museum consists of a first floor and a second floor. On the first floor is located an exhibition dedicated to the works of Ary Sheffer and other contemporary artists. On the other hand, on the first floor we can see a rather extensive exhibition dedicated to Sand - It is there that we will see memorabilia of this writer, including her jewelry, earrings, hair clips, but also paper knives or a stamp with her initials.

Both permanent exhibitions can be viewed completely free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday during the museum's opening hours. The only thing we can pay for is audioguide, which often makes sightseeing very easy and varied.

10.Cognacq-Jay Museum

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday - closed
Date of creation: 1929 r.
The collection includes: works of art and decorative objects mainly from 18th-century France.
Website link: https://www.museecognacqjay.paris.fr/

Cognacq-Jay Museum is a small museum that mainly collects works of art, decorative objects from the 18th century. The collection housed in the museum once belonged to an entrepreneur Ernest Congnacq and his wife Marie-Louise Jay, hence the name of the facility. It is worth knowing that the couple became famous as early as 1869 for their organization in the branch of the Samaritanine de Luxe The first temporary exhibitions of his collection.

The full museum collection of Cognacq-Jay consists of. more than 1,200 exhibits, including mainly European and Chinese ceramics, jewelry, period paintings by, among others. Canaletto, Rembrandt whether Jean-Baptiste Greuze, sculptures by 18th century artists or furniture from that period.

The interiors of the building are maintained in Louis XV and rococo style, which allows visitors to feel the unique atmosphere of those times.