Things to do in Paris

Le musée du Louvre

The Louvre is the largest museum in Paris by area. Located in the heart of the city, between the right bank of the Seine and the Rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement, the building is a former royal palace.

Le musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a national museum in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, in the 7th arrondissement.

Montmartre

An artists' village perched on the highest hill in Paris, where the Sacré-Cœur basilica overlooks cobbled lanes that have stayed away from the Parisian bustle.

Palais et parc de Versailles

A favoured residence of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, the Palace of Versailles, embellished by several generations of architects, sculptors, ornamentalists and landscape designers, was for more than a century the model in Europe of what a royal residence should be.

Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

From the residence of the Kings of France to the National Archaeology Museum.

La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris stands in the city of Paris, at the tip of the Île de la Cité.

l'opéra Garnier

A world-famous architectural masterpiece, the Palais Garnier is the thirteenth opera house in Paris since the founding of this institution by Louis XIV in 1669.

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Seat of the natural history museums of France, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle is in Paris.

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Located in the heart of Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is the emblematic monument of the Rmn-GP.

Catacombes de Paris

An underground ossuary developed at the end of the eighteenth century in former quarries, where the bones of several million Parisians are carefully stacked.

Château de Vincennes

A royal residence from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, the Château de Vincennes has kept its enclosure, medieval towers, the fourteenth-century keep and the Sainte-Chapelle with its sixteenth-century stained glass.

Château d'Ecouen

The Château d'Écouen, twenty kilometres north of Paris, overlooking the fine expanse of the plain of the Pays de France, running towards the Chantilly forest, today houses the exceptional collections of the National Museum of the Renaissance.

Conciergerie

In the heart of Paris, on the banks of the Seine, visit the Conciergerie, the oldest surviving part of the Palais de la Cité, the capital's first royal residence and a prison during the French Revolution.

Centre Georges Pompidou

The Georges Pompidou cultural and art centre, built on the Beaubourg plateau, aroused fierce controversy through the boldness of its architecture due to the architects Rogers, Piano and Franchini.

Sainte-Chapelle

The Sainte-Chapelle, also called Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, is a chapel built on the Île de la Cité, in Paris, at the request of Saint Louis to house the Crown of Thorns, a piece of the True Cross, and various other relics of the Passion that he had acquired from 1239.

Palais du Louvre

The palace of the kings of France, marked by history from the Middle Ages to the year 2000.

Palais-Royal

A stone's throw from the Louvre, the Palais-Royal was built at the request of Cardinal Richelieu in 1633.

Musée de Cluny

The Musée de Cluny, officially the Musée national du Moyen Âge – Thermes et hôtel de Cluny, is in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter, at 6 place Paul-Painlevé, along rue Du Sommerard, in a fifteenth-century townhouse, the Hôtel de Cluny, and in the adjoining Cluny Baths.

Musée Picasso

Musée Carnavalet

The Musée Carnavalet is the Paris municipal museum devoted to the history of Paris from the origins of the city to the present day.

Palais du Luxembourg

Le Panthéon

The Panthéon is a monument on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the heart of the Latin Quarter.

Musée Grévin

The Musée Grévin is a private wax museum (owned by Grévin & Cie, a subsidiary of Compagnie des Alpes since its privatisation) in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, bringing together wax reproductions of famous people; it is the museum of illusion.

Jardin du Luxembourg

Jardin des Tuileries

The Tuileries were once a district of Paris, between the Louvre palace, Rue de Rivoli, Place de la Concorde and the Seine.

Musée Maillol

Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes

With its astonishing architectural elements (mostly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), the menagerie is the oldest zoo in the world preserved in its original appearance.

Musée de l'Orangerie

The Musée de l'Orangerie is a museum of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in the Tuileries Garden, at the western end of the Terrasse du bord de l'eau, Place de la Concorde, in Paris.

Paris Canal

The Canal Saint-Martin is a canal 4.55 km long lying entirely in the 10th and 11th arrondissements of Paris.

Le musée Rodin

Behind a facade of sobriety hides a jewel of an eighteenth-century mansion, which houses the permanent collections of the Rodin Museum.

Musée Gustave Moreau

The Gustave-Moreau museum is a national museum at 14 rue de La Rochefoucauld in Paris, in the former studio of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, bequeathed by the artist to the French State in 1897 so that his work be preserved and presented there.

Musée des plans-reliefs

Musée du Petit Palais

The Petit Palais is a historic monument of Paris, now used as a fine arts museum, which was built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition by the architect Charles Girault.

Le Musée de l'Armée

Tour Montparnasse

The 56th floor and the panoramic terrace of the Tour Montparnasse reveal an unusual Paris.

Le Palais de la découverte

L'Adresse Musée de la Poste

L'Adresse Musée de La Poste, until 2009 the Musée de la Poste, is the company museum of La Poste devoted to French postal history and philately.

La Basilique du Sacré-Coeur

Musée Jacquemart-André

Parc Monceau

Musée du quai Branly

The Musée du quai Branly, or museum of the arts and civilisations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, is on quai Branly in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, on the site formerly occupied by the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

La Tour Eiffel

The Eiffel Tower is one of the symbolic monuments of Paris. Built in puddled iron, it stands on the Champ-de-Mars and measures 324 metres (with its antenna).

Musée des arts asiatiques Guimet

From its creation by Émile Guimet in 1889 to today, the museum has never stopped enriching its collections and diversifying them.

Aquarium de Paris - Cineaqua

The Aquarium de Paris – Cinéaqua is an aquarium under the Chaillot hill between the Trocadéro and the Seine in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement.

Arc de triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe is 2.2 kilometres north-west of Place de la Concorde, at the end of the Champs-Élysées avenue.

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine

The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine is, with its 22,000 m², the largest architecture centre in the world.

Musée des Arts forains

Discover the 3 spaces of the museum through our participatory guided tours for young and old. On the programme: carousels, show, attraction and a little history to relive the Belle Époque fairground, in the 19th century.