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, the free museums are more numerous than we think. Sometimes, free of charge applies only 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 access to free to all of their permanent collection. Finally, some museums are simply free, always and for all, but beware, on free days, there may be a few more people than usual. If your goal is to visit a museum with few people, prefer the days of nightlife in museums.

Free museums for young people (all year round)

Louvre Museum (1st)
Orangerie Museum (1st)
Picasso Museum (4e)
Cluny Museum (5e)
Eugène Delacroix Museum (6th)
Army Museum - Hôtel des Invalides (7th)
Rodin Museum (7th)
Orsay Museum (7th)
Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac(7th) (the museum of arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
Gustave Moreau Museum (9th)
National City of the History of Immigration (12th)
National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet (16th)
City of Architecture and Heritage (16th)
Jean-Jacques Henner Museum (17th)

Free access to the permanent collections, all year round, for everyone

Carnavalet Museum (3rd)
Musée Cognacq-Jay (3e)
The Brancusi workshop (4th) (reconstitution of the artist's studio)
The Shoah Memorial (4th) (museum and temporary exhibitions)
Victor Hugo House (4th)
The Museum of the Prefecture of Police (5e)
The Curie Museum (5e)
The Zadkine Museum (6th)
Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac(7th) (the museum of arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
The Museum of the Legion of Honour (7th)
The Cernuschi Museum (8th) (Asian arts)
The Petit Palais Museum (8th) (Museum of Fine Arts of Antiquity at the end of the 19th century)
Fragonard Perfume Museum (9th)
The Museum of Romantic Life (9th) (around George Sand and Parisian painters of the 19th century)
The Museum of the Liberation of Paris - Musée du Général Leclerc - Jean Moulin (14e)
The Bourdelle Museum (15th)
Modern Art Museum of Paris (16th)
The House of Balzac (16th)
Palais Galliera, musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris (16th arrondissement)

Free museums on the 1st Sunday of the month

Orangerie Museum (1st) (Museum of Impressionists, Water Lilies)
Museum of Arts and Crafts (3rd) (free also on Thursday night from 6 pm to 9.30 pm)
Picasso Museum (4e)
Cluny Museum (5th) (Museum of the Middle Ages)
Musée Delacroix (6th) (also July 14th)
Rodin Museum (7th)
the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac(7th) (the museum of arts and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas)
Orsay Museum (7th) (Museum of Painting and Sculpture XIX^e century until 1914)
Gustave Moreau Museum (9th)
City of Architecture (16th)
Henner Museum (17th)

And also…

The Louvre Museum (1st): free of charge on July 14th all day long
The Commercial Exchange free for all on the first Saturday of each month from 5pm, on reservation