Frequently Asked Questions
Who Runs Paris Museums?
Paris Museums is an independent directory, not a museum and not part of any official body. It has no named author and no bylines. It speaks in its own editorial voice, and its authority rests on one thing: every price, free status and set of opening hours is checked against each museum's own ticket page. That research is what the site offers, and it is stated plainly.
How Are The Prices Checked?
Every figure on the site is checked against the museum's own ticket page or official website. Door prices are the museums' own published prices in euro. Free status is re-verified rather than assumed, and closed days and hours are taken as the museums themselves publish them. Where a price changes at the source, the site is updated to match. Nothing is rounded or estimated.
Why Do Some Museums Have No Ticket Link?
Eleven of the 39 listed museums and museum-like attractions are free to enter, with no ticket at all. Those venues are marked free and sell nothing. Only the 23 venues that genuinely sell a bookable ticket carry a link to one. If a museum has no ticket to buy, the site does not invent one, and it does not push you toward a paid product where the door is simply open.
How Does The Site Make Money?
Where a museum sells a bookable ticket, the site links to it through an affiliate link and earns a commission if you book, at no extra cost to you. The platforms used are GetYourGuide, Tiqets and Klook, plus GuruWalk for the walking tours. Free museums are marked free and sell nothing. The site never charges readers, and booking through a link never raises your price.
Is The Site Affiliated With Any Museum?
No. Paris Museums is an independent directory with no affiliation to the City of Paris, Paris Musées, the French state, the CMN or any individual museum. It holds no official role and represents none of them. What it does is collect and verify information those institutions publish themselves, and present it in one place with the free and paid options clearly separated.
How Often Are The Figures Re-Checked?
Prices, free status and opening hours are checked against each museum's own pages on a rolling basis rather than left to sit. Free entry rules in Paris shift more than people expect: national museums are free one Sunday a month, CMN monuments only from 1 January to 31 March and 1 November to 31 December, and the Louvre has its own rule entirely. Those details are the kind of thing that drift out of date, so they are revisited regularly.
What Are The GuruWalk Walking Tours?
The site lists 39 verified free pay-what-you-want walking tours through GuruWalk. You book a free slot, walk with a guide, and tip what the walk was worth at the end. There is no fixed price and no obligation beyond the tip you choose. The tours are a separate layer from the museum listings and are not tied to any of the 39 museums, though many of them pass nearby.
How Do I Report A Wrong Price?
Write to info@parismuseums.net. If you spot a price, a free status or a closed day that no longer matches what a museum publishes, say which venue and what you found. Reports are checked against the museum's own ticket page, and the listing is corrected if the source confirms it. Corrections from readers are welcome, because the whole value of the directory depends on the figures being right.
Can I Trust The Free Museum Listings?
The free listings are the most checked part of the site, because free entry in Paris is where most guides go wrong. Eleven City of Paris permanent collections are free to everyone all year, but a temporary exhibition suspends that free entry, as at the Maison de Victor Hugo right now. Three Paris Musées venues, the Palais Galliera, the Catacombes and the Crypte archéologique, are paid. The site keeps those distinctions straight.
Does The Site Sell Tickets Itself?
No. Paris Museums sells nothing directly and holds no inventory. When a venue sells a bookable ticket, the site links out to GetYourGuide, Tiqets or Klook, and you buy from them. Viator is not used. Free museums carry no link at all. The directory's job is accurate information, not a checkout: the transaction, if there is one, happens on the ticket platform's own site.