Musée de Cluny — Musée national du Moyen Âge

The Musée de Cluny occupies the Hôtel de Cluny, a late-15th-century Gothic townhouse built for the abbots of Cluny Abbey, itself constructed directly on top of the ruins of a 2nd-century Gallo-Roman bathhouse — one of the best-preserved Roman structures anywhere in northern Europe, still visible in the museum's frigidarium (cold room), a vaulted hall with walls that have stood for close to 1,900 years.

The museum's collection spans medieval art and objects across the whole period, but its single most famous holding is the Lady and the Unicorn (La Dame à la licorne), a set of six wool-and-silk tapestries woven around 1500, each representing one of the five senses plus a sixth, more enigmatic panel inscribed 'À mon seul désir.' They're displayed in a dedicated darkened rotunda designed to protect the fragile textiles while letting visitors circle the full set.