Free museums in Paris

It’s free in Paris and it’s rare. Let’s take advantage of it!

In Paris and Ile-de-France, there are more free museums than you might think. Sometimes, free admission only applies to young people (children, teenagers, students and young adults up to 26 years old). In other cases, some museums are free on the 1st Sunday of the month or a day of the week. A number of Parisian museums offer free access to their permanent collection to all. Finally, some museums are simply free, always and for everyone. Be careful, on free days, there may be a little more crowded than usual. If your goal is to visit a museum with few people, favor the night days in museums.

Free museums for young people (all year round)

Louvre Museum (1st)
Musée de l’Orangerie (1st)
Picasso Museum (4th)
Museum of Cluny (5th)
Eugène Delacroix Museum (6th)
Musée de l’Armée – Hôtel des Invalides (7th)
Rodin Museum (7th)
Musée d’Orsay (7th)
The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, (7th) (the museum of the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
Gustave Moreau Museum (9th)
Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration (12th)
Musée national des Arts Asiatiques Guimet (16th)
Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (16th)
Jean-Jacques Henner Museum (17th)

Musée Carnavalet (3rd)
Cognacq-Jay Museum (3rd)
The Brancusi studio (4th) (reconstruction of the artist’s studio)
The Shoah Memorial (4th) (museum and temporary exhibitions)
The Victor Hugo House (4th)
The Museum of the Prefecture of Police (5th)
The Curie Museum (5th)
The Zadkine Museum (6th)
The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, (7th) (the museum of the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
The Museum of the Legion of Honor (7th)
The Cernuschi Museum (8th) (Asian arts)
The Musée du Petit Palais (8th) (museum of fine arts from Antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century)
Fragonard Perfume Museum (9th)
The Musée de la Vie romantique (9th) (around George Sand and the Parisian painters of the nineteenth century)
The Museum of the Liberation of Paris – General Leclerc Museum – Jean Moulin (14th)
The Bourdelle Museum (15th)
Museum of Modern Art in Paris (16th)
Balzac’s House (16th)
Palais Galliera, fashion museum of the City of Paris (16th)

Musée de l’Orangerie (1st) (Impressionist Museum, Water Lilies)
Musée des Arts et Métiers (3rd) (also free on Thursday night from 6 pm to 9.30 pm)
Picasso Museum (4th)
Musée de Cluny (5th) (museum of the Middle Ages)
Musée Delacroix (6th) (also on 14 July)
Rodin Museum (7th)
at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, (7th) (the museum of the arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
Musée d’Orsay (7th) (museum of painting and sculpture from the^nineteenth century to 1914)
Gustave Moreau Museum (9th)
Cité de l’architecture (16th)
Henner Museum (17th)

The Louvre Museum (1st): free on July 14 all day
The Bourse du Commerce : free admission for all on the first Saturday of each month from 5 p.m., by reservation