About Paris Museums
What This Site Is
Paris Museums is an independent directory of museums and museum-like attractions in Paris. It currently lists 39 venues, from the Louvre to small house museums, and answers 35 of the questions visitors ask most often. It exists for one reason: the rules around Paris museum pricing are genuinely confusing, and most guides get them wrong.
The core of the confusion is that Paris runs two systems that do not overlap. Eleven City of Paris museums, run by Paris Musées, are free to enter all year, no ticket, no conditions. National museums work differently: they are free on the first Sunday of each month. CMN monuments such as the Panthéon, the Sainte-Chapelle, the Conciergerie and the Arc de Triomphe are free on the first Sunday only from 1 January to 31 March and from 1 November to 31 December, never from April to October. The Louvre, famously, has no free first Sunday at all. It is free on the first Friday of the month after 6pm, except in July and August, and on 14 July. This site keeps those distinctions straight because they are the difference between planning a good trip and a wasted walk.
Who Stands Behind It
Paris Museums has no named author. It speaks in its own editorial voice, and its authority rests on one thing: research. Every price is checked against the museum's own ticket page, every free status is re-verified, and hours and closed days are taken as the museums themselves publish them. Nothing here depends on anyone's travel diary. The figures come from the source.
How The Prices Are Checked
All prices on the site are in euro and are each museum's own door price. Where a museum has two prices, the site says so. The Louvre, for example, now charges €22 for visitors from the European Economic Area and €32 for everyone else. The Paris Museum Pass is listed at its real tiers: €85 for 2 days, €105 for 4 days and €125 for 6 days, adult only, counted in hours from the first scan. The site also tracks what changes. A temporary exhibition suspends free entry at the free eleven, which is why the Maison de Victor Hugo is ticketed until 22 November 2026. The Crypte archéologique is shut for works. The Centre Pompidou closed on 22 September 2025 and will not reopen until 2030. When something like that shifts, the pages are updated against the museum's own publications.
What This Site Does Not Do
Paris Museums does not sell tickets directly, does not run tours and does not claim access no one has. It does not cover hotels, restaurants or transport passes, because the Paris Museum Pass never includes transport and the site would rather say so than imply otherwise. It does not round prices, guess at policies or attach dates to figures. Free museums are marked free and sell nothing at all.
How It Earns
Where a museum sells a bookable ticket, the site links to that ticket through an affiliate link and earns a commission at no extra cost to the reader. The platforms used are GetYourGuide, Tiqets and Klook, the last two through Travelpayouts. Viator is not used. The affiliate links never change the facts: of the 39 listed venues, 11 are free with no ticket at all and 23 sell a bookable one, and a free museum stays marked free.
The Free Walking Tours
The site also lists 39 verified free pay-what-you-want walking tours through GuruWalk, run by 16 guides. You book a free slot and tip the guide what the walk was worth. It costs nothing unless you decide it did.
If something on this site looks wrong against a museum's own page, write to info@parismuseums.net and it will be checked against the source again.