Musée d'Orsay
The world's finest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, housed in a converted Belle Époque railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine.
Musée Rodin
Auguste Rodin's former home and studio, now a museum of his sculpture set around a 3-hectare garden where The Thinker sits in the open air.
Musée de l'Orangerie
A small, single-focus museum in the Tuileries Gardens built to house Claude Monet's eight enormous Water Lilies murals exactly as he wanted them displayed.
Musée Marmottan Monet
A former hunting lodge on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne holding the world's largest collection of Monet paintings, including the work that gave Impressionism its name.
Musée Jacquemart-André
A lavish 19th-century private mansion, still furnished as its art-collector owners left it, holding an outstanding collection of Italian Renaissance and French 18th-century art.
Centre Pompidou
France's national modern art museum, instantly recognisable for its inside-out 'high-tech' architecture — closed for a five-year renovation until 2030, with the collection touring partner venues in the meantime.
Petit Palais
Paris's free fine arts museum, built for the 1900 World's Fair, holding a broad collection from antiquity through the 19th century inside an elegant Beaux-Arts palace with its own interior garden.
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Frank Gehry's billowing glass-sailed building in the Bois de Boulogne, home to LVMH's contemporary and modern art foundation and major touring exhibitions.
Grand Palais
A vast Beaux-Arts glass-and-iron exhibition hall built for the 1900 World's Fair, reopened in 2025 after renovation and now hosting major art exhibitions, including works from the closed Centre Pompidou's collection.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
The City of Paris's free modern art museum, occupying one wing of the Palais de Tokyo, with a strong Fauvist and Cubist collection anchored by Matisse's monumental La Danse.
Palais de Tokyo
Europe's largest contemporary art centre, occupying a deliberately raw, unfinished-looking 1937 exhibition building with some of the longest opening hours of any museum in Paris.